If you're buying U2410, i recommend you buy Asus PA246Q which uses P-IPS. Currently, as technology goes. Dell has kinda abandon H-IPS Technology and go full scale E-IPS because it is cheaper than H-IPS.(sorry, what i mean is Dell is going on a much more economic budget type panel rather than H-IPS which consider kinda premium.)

E-IPS is not True 8bit Color Depth, and are mostly 16.7M (6-bit+A-FRC). which is not True 8bit Color Depth.
But there are a few exception, If you guys do remember Dell model : 2209WA which uses LM220WE4-SLB2, it has 16.7M (true 8-bit) Color Depth, and also with the capabilities of overclocking the monitor to 76hz refresh rate.(i am a proud owner of this awesome monitor, true 8bit and 76hz refresh rate)

For Current Dell Monitor, additional Information to you guys.
Model Name < - > Panel Used < - > Color Depth
Dell U2410 - H-IPS(LM240WU4-SLB1) - 1.07b (8-bit+A-FRC)
Dell U2312HM - E-IPS(LM230WF3-SLD1) - 16.7M (6-bit+A-FRC)
Dell U2412M - E-IPS(LM240WU8-SLA2) - 16.7M (6-bit +A-FRC)
Dell U2711 - H-IPS(LM270WQ2-SLA1) - 1.07b (8-bit+A-FRC)
Dell U3011 - H-IPS(LM300WQ5-SDA1) - 1.07b (8-bit+A-FRC)

No offense to anyone here, i'm just pointing out why there's a huge price difference in these monitor despite they are all use IPS model. it's just color offering difference.

If Color Depth is really important to you in Photoshop works, i recommend you get H-IPS or S-IPS, or P-IPS(which one of the latest IPS Panel release in 2010)

This post has been edited by Cyclonechuah: Nov 9 2011, 06:09 PM

i have to fix my previous error. Asus PA246Q Monitor does not use S-IPS but using P-IPS which is one of the latest IPS Panel that offers 10~12bit of color depth.

P-IPS Stands for Performance-IPS or Professional-IPS. (which i can't confirm at a moment, as there might be some difference between these two)


This post has been edited by Cyclonechuah: Nov 9 2011, 06:16 PM

These are IPS Panel which is one of the best offers in market with good view angle, i don't think you could find any IPS Monitor below RM700 budget. unless you want TN Panel which poor viewing angle and medium color depth.

Which i can say this is the best choice you can have with 3 years premium warranty unless you wanna try AOC e-IPS model or Asus e-IPS Model, but i don't really recommend them due to their stand is kinda flimsy without option to tilt, adjustable height, and additional options etc.

Difference between LCD and LED Monitor are, LCD uses CCFL as backlight and LED uses LED as backlight.
There are no different in color between LCD and LED.
For Color Depth Difference, it would be mainly depends on what type of panel the monitor uses.

There are mainly 3 type of Panels, TN Panel, IPS Panel, VA Panel.
For more information. Click TFT LCD Monitor Wikipedia
If you want easiest explanation it will be.
Refresh Rate : TN > IPS > VA
Color Depth : VA/IPS > TN

The only Touch Screen IPS Monitor that i know are offered by Dell ST2220T which has built in speaker.

BUT HALT!, there are something more better than Dell, search for Wacom Cintiq, they offer best color depth and highest quality of touchscreen. And there's only one problem you'll gonna face when you wanted to buy this.
MONEY

This post has been edited by Cyclonechuah: Nov 19 2011, 11:14 PM

depends on quality, those WCG2k11, Samsung confirm use top high quality monitor which handpicked, because thousands will be looking at it all the time.

The most easiest part to notice is price tag between these two monitor.

Btw, for everyone here : If you're looking for a review of monitor, and wanted to know which are good to buy.
Please Check this link : http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews.htm

The guy that doing this review is freaking professional, and listed out all the information that are very important. plus revealing the IPS Panel type of the monitor.

This post has been edited by Cyclonechuah: Nov 25 2011, 06:42 AM

8ms might suffer ghost effect which are unsuitable for gaming. but like wildwestgoh said, only those hardcore will notice them.

the most important are input lag.

Btw, just a friendly reminder to everyone.

120hz Monitor with 2ms refresh rate is not going to help you get smoother graphic, if you're using outdated graphic card which only supports most game about 20~40 FPS.
Using these monitor will not grant you to have smooth like butter graphic performance, unless your graphic card can handle games up to 120fps in order to fully utilize 120hz monitor.

you poison your friend to grab a 2312hm, after he get it, then you grab your monitor, VROOM to his house, test it side by side.

stuttering 3D is damn painful to eye in cinema, the feeling is not so pleasant, anyone of you use 3D monitor with 120hz before? mind share some of your view?

For TV, i don't know about their colour.

But for Monitor Dell U2412M. here's the information.


For working with photograph, which i assume you will be using Adobe Photoshop, you would probably need a true 8 bit panel for your work, which offers above 80% color accuracy.

But they are much more expensive, you can look at Dell model U2410, U2711 or U3011.
These uses H-IPS Panel which offers 8bit or 10bit(8bit +A-FRC)

You can have a look at Dell Monitor U2410 information below.


Added : Info

IF you want cheapest solution, i recommend you spend RM50 get a cheap CRT Monitor for photo working, they have perfect color compare to all current LCD.

This post has been edited by Cyclonechuah: Dec 26 2011, 05:10 PM

CRT is still the best color reproduction monitor. There's still many big company uses them. because they provided no input lag and best color reproduction that LCD can't even beat.

you still can find them in 2nd hand, but CRT has long been stopped manufacturing for most countries, except China.

LCD is just more energy efficient, slimmer, light weight, easy to carry. but the performance they offer is still inferior compare to CRT.

may i ask what monitor you used in the test?

Sony TV are mostly S-PVA Panel.
No offense but i think your Monitor are using TN Panel which has inferior color compare to VA and IPS.

And i think you need to tune your monitor sharpness to fix Xbox360

CRT monitor does not have color problem, unless your monitor color was set so bad or you didn't do color calibration on the CRT Monitor.

Another Reason on Blur may contributed by CRT Monitor are 4:3 resolution, please check your xbox360 display output are 16:9 or 4:3.
based on your assumption that you use 55inch Sony TV, you must be using 16:9 resolution output on both Sony TV and CRT Monitor.

And Judging from it, you must be using converter of VGA to HDMI for CRT monitor compability.



As i say previously, LCD Monitor that uses TN Panel has inferior color coverage compare to TV that uses VA (S-PVA)

LCD and LED Monitor are the basically the same thing with the only differences are the energy efficiency.

LCD Monitor use CCFL as Backlight brightness
LED Monitor use LED as Backlight brightness

They do not contribute to color. LED are just more energy efficient than CCFL used for backlight.

In the end, it is up to user setting for affecting the display, if you just plug and play without setting anything, then i would have nothing to say, and would only post this picture.


This post has been edited by Cyclonechuah: Dec 31 2011, 03:57 AM

according to what you say, 2k budget, get bigger screen, you can use that RM2k to get 40inch TV.

Btw, U2410 has very bad crystalizing effect? do you actually own one?

the wall mount looks very nice.