However it goes, you will have to keep in mind that Dell will take several days to deliver. If you order a U2311H today, you may be very lucky to receive it this Friday.

I agree. The way auto-brightness adjusts the brightness is simply ridiculous.

Even setting the brightness to the lowest possible value is better than letting the auto-brightness gouge out your eyes.

LED TVs shouldn't have a backlight bleed problem, except that you have to pay in the region of RM 10k for a ~50" 1080p.

Not quite true.

I can do 1920x1200 through VGA and it is sharp, without colour distortion or flickering. It is quite dependent on the quality of the cable. I have seen the problems you have described with different VGA cables.

And HD videos not limited by DRM will readily play over VGA.

Are you both able to compare your Philips TN panel against an IPS or eIPS panel, like the U2311H? How would they compare?

This post has been edited by everling: Mar 9 2011, 01:51 PM

The ST series has a nice design? Eww... I very much prefer the industrial look for the UltraSharp series. Dull, simple and forgettable look. Makes your eyes focus more on the content than drooling on all the smooth curves of your LCD's bezel and stand. Good for keeping you alive on a FPS game.

This post has been edited by everling: Mar 12 2011, 08:48 PM

DisplayPort > HDMI > DVI

If your GPU supports it and the cable prices are similar, I'd recommend getting the DisplayPort cable instead.

Published in September 2008, an interesting and rather technical article:

http://www.edn.com/article/472679-DisplayP..._standards_.php

Optional reading links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_%28interface%29

You mean you turned off the computer and then turned it back on? How does that compare with other displays? Because I thought that would be because the computer doesn't have anything to show. Switching the display itself off and on only takes a few seconds.

Then it is clearly defective. RMA!

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Added on March 15, 2011, 11:57 amAlready in my desktop and testing my U2410, it takes ten seconds from hitting the power on to display my desktop.

This post has been edited by everling: Mar 15 2011, 11:57 AM

And the probability of getting a defective panel increases with larger sizes, so the cost of manufacturing them to get a good panel is even higher.

Do you really need a single 2560x1600 panel? Because you can buy five U2311H for RM 3,045 and get a 9600x1080 (landscape) or 5,400x1920 (portrait) screen. Or three U2311H for 5760x1080 (landscape) or 3240x1920 (portrait) screen and about RM 1,470 leftover for a graphics card that can drive three monitors at once.

If you go back to the CRT, will the problem not appear on it?

Perhaps try changing the system colours from black text on white background to green text on black background. It can be a little troublesome as not every application or web application is properly designed to handle such user settings. For web browsers, you will need to tell it to ignore the web page's colour choices.

I don't like screen protectors as they dull the colours. Generally I would just leave it. If there are stains, I would use damp toilet paper to gently wipe away any stains.

Using a CRT for a year gives 3.3 times more radiation than living within 80km of a coal power plant for a year.

And using a CRT for a year gives 11.1 times more radiation than living within 80km of a nuclear power plant for a year.

Yes, coal power plants working normally produces 3.3 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant working normally.

Source: http://xkcd.com/radiation/

D-SUB < DVI < HDMI < DP

Also, all of the cables above are sufficient for 1080p displays. You only need to find a good cable to avoid noise.

Sorry, I had gotten sidetracked and haven't gotten around to checking out the information from my topic yet. It was rather low on my list of priorities. I'm currently using a D-SUB for my 1920x1200.

Unlike other items like AMD CPU and Intel CPU or AMD GPU and Nvidia GPU where opinions can strongly differ in preference, most who have experienced the U2311H will agree that it is the best LCD of its price class. The thing that is most likely to sour your experience is receiving a few defective replacement monitors in a row, but that seems to be a blue moon exception. I wouldn't worry about it.

This was the worst Dell warranty story I've ever read: Dell sent me six replacements for my defective monitor and then a notebook.

Cliff's notes: Happened in India. Dell UltraSharp 3008WFP. Replaced seven times (there was an update), all faulty. I think still ongoing.

But seriously don't let that put you off from buying Dell. The chances of that repeating here should be pretty low and there are a lot of damned satisfied UltraSharp customers. I've bought three UltraSharps myself, all arrived in good condition.

Dell's D-SUB, DVI and DP cables are all about the same thickness.

From personal experience, D-SUB, DVI, and HDMI can have the same quality at 1920x1200. I have a DP cable, but unfortunately I don't have a DP port on my GC.

For the U2311H, no. If you want it bundled together, you need to buy the U2410.

I think it has to be cheaper than the U2311H to be worth a buy. Unless you prefer the look.

Is it because of the RM70 discount for each U2311H? Because the LG monitor isn't as good, even at RM575.

And then if you're buying three displays, you're aiming to enable Eyefinity? Dell's UltraSharp monitors are much more flexible in that, allowing you to use portrait mode as well, because it can swivel. Also, Dell's simple design is much better for Eyefinity.

Another thing of note. LED itself can give colour imbalance, if some its LEDs age faster than the other LEDs. This has been noted in older LED displays, like Dell's G2410 LED monitor. CCFL-based displays will give much better colour consistency.

You're welcome. But if you want to feel even better, try reading the aforementioned link on [H]ard|Forum. I particularly like the complaints about the stand and the bezel. Garbage, ugly, tacky, cheap.

Even if you have bought a multi-monitor stand that can allow you to do portrait mode, the LG's tacky and cheap bezel will destroy any hopes of doing portrait. Dell's simple bezel design will work in any direction.