Source: Tom's Hardware UK – Keywords: Monitors, Displays
Categories: Hardware
Viewsonic 2435wm Contd
Being pretty good value for money, the Viewsonic monitor offers the rare advantage of an exceptional video quality when it comes to films. Unfortunately, the manufacture of the monitor doesn’t stand up as well. The screen seems pretty massive, but the default settings aren’t satisfactory and the interface need some serious work. Despite all of this, it’s one of the best current Full-HD screens video-wise.
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Overall Score Lg L245WP
For a long time LG has been at the top where design is concerned, with it’s unusual glossy black or white monitor. This monitor is aimed at professionals rather than average users, and it tries to keep with the tradition - if you get a classic monitor the screen comes with a glossy stand and a strange semi-glossy panel in between the matt panels and the “glare” ones. This setup has the advantage of limiting annoying reflections when there’s ambient light on the display, but it begs the question, is this feature really useful?
Design and finish Since its recent moves into the mobile phone market, LG seems to have developed a certain penchant for shiny things. This interesting 24” monitor is proof enough. The design is appealing with a great looking glossy black base. It is however a bit on the fragile side. Suffice it to say, we probably shouldn’t weigh it down with the shrapnel from our pockets. The buttons are grouped below the panel, so as to not break the smooth line of the case. To facilitate browsing, the manufacturer has put indications on the face in white letters. This detail is really welcome, and it’s unfortunate that it’s not followed by other manufacturers.
Interface The LG screen is particularly professional and the interface is as good as the Dell’s. The monitor is adjustable in every direction. It even boasts the option to pivot, and the OSD controls are quite practical. It really is a great piece of office equipment.
Equipment The equipment is as complete as the Dell’s, with HDMI as a bonus. In short, it’s the best-equipped monitor in this review. Xbox owners will also be pleased to see a YUV plug in the back of this monitor.
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"It also eliminates the screens smaller than 23” as they don’t feature a resolution compatible with Full-HD (better than to 1920 x 1080)."
Actually, Lenovo's L220x is a 22" 1920x1200 panel. The extra 2" of saved desk space matters if you have to fit it on your desk with another five monitors, or if you want to mount it beside a CRT of similar height. Bigger is probably better in a television, of course - and it's around the same price as 24" panels (at least, those with DVI), so you're not saving anything but space. I believe it also has issues with scaling, if not as badly as the first batch of 30" panels. It might be an interesting option for some readers, though - I was looking at one as a 1600SW replacement.
You can also get Viewsonic's 23" VP231WB WUXGA panel, but it's very expensive. I'm ignoring QWUXGA panels, too. None of these support HDCP.
There is no colour gamut for the Dell... Whoops!!
I personally would like to see some higher end 24" monitors added into the mix... Is it really worth those extra bucks to get a better (wider) colour gamut?? For example I have my eye on:
BENQ FP241VW
Which is a lot more expensive then the monitors reviewed here... But a TFT should last years and years (if it is turned off to save the backlight)... So surely it is worth spending more on a monitor than computer parts that will be obsolete after a few months!!
Lets at least revisit 24" monitors with a review of the high end in the near future please!! THG simply do the best reviews of TFTs on the web. However what happened to the latency response graphs you used to publish?
Bob
A wider colour gamut isn't necessarily a good thing for HDTV - so long as you can express the whole range of colours encoded in the standards, extra gamut just stretches the digital pixel levels further apart with some of the extreme values unused and makes calibration harder. This assumes you're trying to set up the HDTV to look as near to the specification as possible rather than shooting for extra-vibrant. The same isn't so true for colour-managed applications with wide gamut printing, so I won't turn down an Eizo CG221 (another WUXGA <24" monitor) for Photoshop work if someone offers it to me...
I've always been a little wary of black frame insertion (not that I've ever seen it in action, but one thing in favour of LCDs is the lack of flicker). The FP241VW looks interesting, though. I'd like to see a round-up of the high end too - perhaps getting to the bottom of exactly what Toshiba are offering with their apparently rebadged T221?
Incidentally, a friend is standing by the strategy of using a decent CRT (e.g. a GDM-FW900) as a desktop HDTV. It would be interesting to compare one with these flat panels, especially given the going rate for one on eBay.
Bob's right, though - THG monitor reviews are always worth reading. Here's hoping for more!
very good stockselling review. i believe you couldn't find older monitors in the market for sure.
and the prices you mention ... even in Greece these monitors are cheaper.
and what happened with all the amd reviews? and this, amd that, even OUR OWN SILENT HTPC is amd.
i don't have a problem with amd i'll buy a pundit p2-m2a690g and an athlon x2 4200 next week, i just try to understand what's going on here.
I want to buy a quality 24" monitor when I upgrade my PC as my old Iiyama VM Pro 454 is beginning to die a death. Please can we see some of the higher end stuff reviewed. Better still, can we actually see some more monitors reviewed?!
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