I've never had a widescreen before
and I've never had such a crappy inconsistent display before. This is the second monitor I've tried out in 2 days and they both had the same problem. I've now learned that it's a consequence of the type of panel they use, which is a TN panel. The top 4 inches of the screen are darker and more colour-saturated than the rest and it's driving me crazy.
I've just ordered another monitor, a 19' 4:3 Viewsonic which I think will be a better type of panel.
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Mon 19 Jan 2009, 0:57,
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I've just ordered another monitor, a 19' 4:3 Viewsonic which I think will be a better type of panel.
Yeah
I was on the phone with Dell earlier and the guy was trying to sell me a 30" widescreen. He kept on and on about how high-spec it was and in the end I had to cut across him and say, "yeah, yeah, it sounds great but the thing is it wouldn't fit on my fucking desk".
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Mon 19 Jan 2009, 1:08,
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Sucks :/
Good luck with finding a better one.
I quite like mine, but it's not widescreen.
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Mon 19 Jan 2009, 1:08,
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I quite like mine, but it's not widescreen.
Yeah
the main problem here is that it's almost impossible to buy a monitor that isn't widescreen. I don't like widescreen ratio for working. I much prefer 4:3
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Mon 19 Jan 2009, 1:11,
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i have a friend here who uses a widescreen but has rotated it so it stands tall, not wide.
it looks... odd.
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Mon 19 Jan 2009, 1:15,
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8:6 is a better ratio than that
all the cool kids are using 8:6 nowadays
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Mon 19 Jan 2009, 6:07,
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I was lucky enough
and forked out enough money for, an S-IPS screen. You're unlikely to get one now but a PVA screen (I promise I'm not making this up) would be almost as good on colour evenness.
For widescreen monitors this is the best resource I know of for determining the panel type. I know of no similar resource for 4:3 screens, however.
How good is the colour evenness? about CRT level!
(however I should point out that it has feckloads of backlight bleeding which looks very bad in dark scenes - an LED screen shouldn't suffer from this)
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Mon 19 Jan 2009, 1:58,
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For widescreen monitors this is the best resource I know of for determining the panel type. I know of no similar resource for 4:3 screens, however.
How good is the colour evenness? about CRT level!
(however I should point out that it has feckloads of backlight bleeding which looks very bad in dark scenes - an LED screen shouldn't suffer from this)