Buying a PC Monitor

shadowbt

shadowbt

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Ok, I have no idea what I want for a monitor, I was wondering if any of you could suggest me a good screen brand, I heard ViewSonic was good, any other suggestion?
 
well the minimum resolution you will want is 1280/1024, but if you have a little bit of money you can get a widescreen with a resolution of 1440/900 or a standard 20" with a res of 1600/1200
 
Personally I really like Samsung monitors. I did consider ViewSonic but I really like the display of Samsung's. I say go to every store that you can and play with the settings since its hard to judge them by simply looking at them online.
 
cas146 said:
Personally I really like Samsung monitors. I did consider ViewSonic but I really like the display of Samsung's. I say go to every store that you can and play with the settings since its hard to judge them by simply looking at them online.
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Pretty good idea.
 
Samsung do make decent stuff.

All LCD monitors are pretty much the same as far as parts go. They are all pretty much made by LG. However, the differences in the parts aren't always quality per se, but more like added or taken out features.

You want an LCD with a very low response time, no higher than 4ms. You want to make sure the contrast ratio is black to white, not gray to gray. Some things may seem better on paper, but once you realize how they spec it, you can clearly see it is not so great.
 
fortyways said:
You mean response time?
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response time and contrast ratio are not exactly the same thing. Depending on how the manufacturer specs it, depends on how it would perform. If they measure it from black to white then it will have better performance, if they measure it from gray to gray, then not as good.
 
tlarkin said:
response time and contrast ratio are not exactly the same thing. Depending on how the manufacturer specs it, depends on how it would perform. If they measure it from black to white then it will have better performance, if they measure it from gray to gray, then not as good.
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Response time and contrast ratio are not even remotely the same thing. My point was there's no such thing as a gray-to-gray or black-to-white contrast ratio; those are response time measurements.

Saying a monitor's contrast ratio is rated in gray-to-gray is like saying its contrast ratio is measured in milliseconds.
 
fortyways said:
Response time and contrast ratio are not even remotely the same thing. My point was there's no such thing as a gray-to-gray or black-to-white contrast ratio; those are response time measurements.

Saying a monitor's contrast ratio is rated in gray-to-gray is like saying its contrast ratio is measured in milliseconds.
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response time is how long it takes for one pixel to go from the darkest color, the lightest color and back to the darkest color again. So, yes you are right I thought I was explaining it right but I wasn't. I had it backwards, in a sense and didn't fully explain.

You want the response time to be measured from black to white if possible, even though most LCD displays can not display true black because of a limitation in the technology. A high contrast ratio makes this possible.

With a higher contrast ratio, the brighter and darker it can get. So you want something that is spec'd for more of a black to white and not gray to gray. Displays that have lower contrast ratios are the ones that spec gray to gray where as the ones with the higher are like really dark gray (almost black) to really light gray (almost white).

To my knowledge LCDs still can not display true black and white.
 
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