LCD Monitor Thread v6.00 (FYI: LCD MONITOR ≠LCD TV)


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This post has been edited by kianwee: Aug 14 2010, 02:03 PM

Use this image to test your LCD's color and to detect gradient banding.
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Link to v5.00 : http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/832727
Link to v4.00 : http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/724890
Link to v3.10 : http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/374456

This post has been edited by kianwee: Mar 17 2009, 09:43 PM

Keep up the good work boys and girls

Let us poison CRTs owners to get LCDs since the price is so low now.

If you're working as a photo editor/graphics designer, I will suggest you not to get any LCD right now with your budget. You need at least a 8bit PVA or IPS panel for color accuracy. If photo editing is nothing major and you do not have to be too particular about color accuracy, DELL S2409W gets my vote.

You can't tint your LCD dude. Why on earth do you want to tint your LCD? Tinting a LCD won't make your matte screen becomes glossy screen.

DELL in terms of build quality and better warranty. I would definitely avoid Acer, they are not good in anything.

I believe the most popular LCD brand here is either DELL or Samsung.

No problem with your graphics card

Obviously the shop fellow is retarded or else he wouldn't be the shop fellow now, would he?

X3100 has a maximum resolution of 2048x1536.

This post has been edited by kianwee: Mar 3 2009, 10:31 PM

LMAO! That's because you're selling it?

It is no longer available at DELL's website.

Won't discontinue so fast la, they just launch it not long ago.

TN panel VS IPS panel (From v5.00)


DELL 2209WA e-IPS backlight bleed



ASUS TN backlight bleed




DELL 2209WA e-IPS color uniformity



ASUS TN color uniformity





Viewing angle on DELL 2209WA e-IPS




DELL 2009WA Buttons

Moar 2209WA pics:

No offence bro but let me share with you what I think.

DELL S2409W and Viewsonic VX2433wm will look the same because both has same spec. Both TN panel, both has a typical contrast ratio of 1000:1 (forget about dynamic contrast ratio), brightness of 300 cd/m2, viewing angle are the same & response time of Viewsonic is slightly lower. Of course Viewsonic comes with integrated speakers as well.

IMHO contrast ratio is the most important when selecting any LCD. You can forget about response time because there aren't any standard in measuring it. Manufacture can say 1ms or 0ms and there's no way we can measure it accurately. Even my old 16ms S-IPS panel 2007WFP is ghosting free, even with fast paced game.

So, the Viewsonic costs RM888 from you. Dell costs RM585 from forum sellers. A difference of RM300. Does that extra RM300 justify for the extra integrated speakers? Warranty wise, DELL offers 3 yrs 1 to 1 doorstep swap. Let's say today my Dell LCD screwed up, I gave Dell RMA hotline a call, the next working day they send me a replacement to my doorstep, 1 to 1 swap. Does Viewsonic 3 yrs warranty covers doorstep warranty as well? I don't think so. If you bring it back to RMA, I'm pretty sure you have to wait as well.

And from my personal experience, S2409W has less backlight bleed compared to VX2433wm. So when you say Viewsonic is wayyyyyyyyy better than Dell, do you mean the integrated speakers? And when you say the spec of Dell doesn't justify with the cheap price Dell offered, may I know which spec are you referring to? Dynamic contrast ratio? I think most of us know that's not something you look at when purchasing LCD, it's the typical contrast ratio that matters.

Cheers!

My comparison is rigid. Both are lowyat.net garage sales prices. Unless you can find Viewsonic's retail price, then we shall compare RM699 retail price of DELL vs RM??? retail price of Viewsonic.

Even if you want to compare retail price of DELL RM699 with lowyat.net's price of RM888, no problem. DELL is still cheaper by RM189. With that, you get a good 2.1 speaker, how's that?

Dude, I get it from DELL's website last month. It was there but no idea why they took it down.

Black bars or no black bars depends on your movie ratio. If you movie's aspect ratio is anything above 1.78:1, both 16:9 and 16:10 will have black bars. Just that with 16:9 the black bars will be thinner. Most movies are in 1.85:1 and 2.39:1 ratio.

All Dell LCDs comes with DVI cable. No worries.

When both are TN panel, I don't think there will be much difference. Remember to reset the color profile to factory default before comparing. The shop might set it to dynamic contrast which is insanely bright and the color gamut is usually too high.

Yup you can either expand or duplicate your windows.