LCD monitors (UK)
Mike Jones
Anybody got any recommendations for LCD monitors?
I've just returned a new one because it looked like a glorified laptop
screen. The vertical viewing range was so poor that it was impossible to
be in a position to be able to see the top of the screen at normal
brightness\contrast levels without the bottom of it becoming bleached,
or, tilting it to get the bottom of the screen looking something like
normal, the top became dark enough to lose detail.
I'm still using my "old faithful" IBM T-750, and this doesn't have this
problem. Darkness and brightness look the same anywhere on the screen,
from a reasonable range of viewing angles left-right and top-bottom. The
other monitors in the shop I returned the new one to all had pretty much
the same "feature", even the "wide viewing angle" models. Stood on their
edge, the /vertical/ viewing angles didn't even span the depth of the
screen itself.
So, is this how things are these days? Or is it just a flood of
cheap'n'nasty stuff at the lower price ranges? What should I be looking
for, and around what budget should I be expecting to cover to get a
decent vertical viewing angle on a LCD monitor?
I'm not too bothered about supa-dupa mega-widescreen bells and whistles
stuff, just a decent quality screen that looks the same at all four
corners, and that doesn't require head-bobbing to see everything on it.
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Dan Espen
> Anybody got any recommendations for LCD monitors?
Got a DELL 2001FP here.
I absolutely love it.
No dead pixels, extremely good image, no dead pixels.
Had to turn the brightness way down.
I don't believe DELL makes this exact model any more but
I trust the name.
Comes with a 2 year warranty.
Mine went bad after about a year and a half.
Now I have the free replacement and if it goes another
year and a half I'll be happy.
I sort of want this one to die so I can buy an even bigger one.
I'll be looking at DELLs first.
J.O. Aho
> I'm not too bothered about supa-dupa mega-widescreen bells and whistles
> stuff, just a decent quality screen that looks the same at all four
> corners, and that doesn't require head-bobbing to see everything on it.
Nowadays I would recommend Samsung LCD monitors, but if you can, try to
check the monitor out in a store before you buy it.
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Mike Jones
Already got this far. The problem I've had with this one is that store
demos tend to have bright themed (Vasta) stuff on the screen, typically
fed from a splitter through carpy cables, and other things that prevent
me seeing if the monitor will actually do a dark theme in a sit-down
environment. The closest I've managed to get is to have the sales-dude
hold each monitor on it's side to check for vertical viewing angle range.
Everything I've tested so far fails dismally, including the Samsung
monitors I've seen that claimed a wide viewing angle, but turned out to
have the same narrow /vertical/ viewing angle as the others.
The key here is that I use a low-contrast themed desktop.
When most stuff is dark with lighter text, as with my eye-strain reducing
themes, it sure reveals the deficiencies in a LCD monitor that can be
hidden with a bright white-paneled theme.
My screen-theme looks something like this...
http://www.jonestheweb.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/img/InSeamonkey.gif
...which tends to make the "laptop screen" effect more than apparent.
If only I could find another monitor like my current IBM T-750. :(
Jujitsu Lizard
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I've owned several Samsung LCD monitors and had good luck, something like
this:
http://www.samsclub.com/shopping/navigate.do?dest=5&item=400188&pCatg=5902
It may end up that I'm a less discerning customer than you. If I can read
it at all, I'm happy. But they are pretty good. I gave one to my mom and
sold two to my colleagues at work. Everyone is happy.
The Lizard
Mike Jones
The key is vertical viewing angle. Just about every monitor I've looked
at so far has no point where the dark top\bright bottom problem isn't
there. (And the position of least distortion is with the monitor-to-eye
positioning with line of sight parallel to the top edge of the monitor,
not screen-center.)
I've even been looking at TV\Monitors, and they're all pretty much the
same too. I have no idea why people are buying such faulty products!
Here's the Samsung 932BW angles.
Viewing Angle (Horizontal / Vertical): 160º/160º
They look pretty average. :(
Thanks for the info though.