LaCie Shows Super Accurate IPS LCD Monitor
For those who want something good.
In a market ruled by budget LCD monitors running the cheapest TN panels, high-quality monitors that can please your eyes for all the hours of the day that you sit in front of it are ever more attractive.
LaCie is now offering one such high-quality monitor that caters to professionals demanding the best color. The LaCie 324i features a 10–bit P–IPS LCD panel and has a gamut spectrum rated at 102% NTSC and 98% Adobe RGB. The display has a 178° viewing angle, 1000:1 contrast ratio, and anti–glare panel to block out reflections.
"For years, LaCie has designed monitors for digital artists who demand color precision," said Ahcene Tirane, LaCie Product Manager for Displays. "From concept to creation, LaCie developed the 324i with the highest level of color accuracy, and with a firm belief that when professionals have a tool that enhances their workflow, they can deliver their best work."
The 324i has a native 1920x1200 – for those of you who like wide, but not too wide – and it can be rotated 90° to Portrait mode. The multifunction stand glides effortlessly when raising, lowering, swiveling, tilting, or pivoting the display.
The LaCie 324i has four display and video inputs, making it compatible with most computers and video devices. Use DisplayPort or DVI–D for connecting the monitor to a computer and HDMI or component for video sources. The 324i also has three USB 2.0 ports for a convenient USB hub to your computer.
This display starts at the suggested retail price of $1249.
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and you wonder why the market is dominated by cheaper TN panels.
For the premium price you'd think they'd at least try to make the monitor itself look nice, but I suppose this is intended for workstations.
Man, I wish I could justify this...
"and you wonder why the market is dominated by cheaper TN panels.
For the premium price you'd think they'd at least try to make the monitor itself look nice, but I suppose this is intended for workstations."
$1,249 about £800 in UK money, although I notice the UK gets stung as usual as the hoodless version for the 324i costs £1,099 on their webiste.
I think a bit of perspective is needed...
10 years ago the Sony GDM-FW900 monitor, a 24" 14:9/16:10 CRT monitor and one of the finest ever made, cost well over £1,400 (approx $2,200). You couldn't get cheap widescreen PC monitors in those days, but a 21" cheapie cost around £300 and they were pretty gash. Iiyama's Vision master pro 21" cost around £600, which is what I purchased as it did 1600x1200 at 100Hz and had fantastic image quality for the money.
None of the flagship monitors of 10 years ago had anything like the amount of technology crammed into the LaCie and had far less connectivity, plus they were massive and incredibly heavy.
I bought a LaCie 324 2 years ago. It replaced my Iiyama, which died after 7 years of very hard service - the CRT went low emission. The LaCie is the sort of engineering design statement you'd expect it to be and is a worthy replacement for the Iiyama. It blows everything else I've seen out of the water. I paid £700 for it and its worth every single penny and only £100 more than I paid for the Iiyama. OK it aint the prettiest thing I've ever seen but its functional and looks unobtrusive. My only complaint is the touch controls are a bit hit and miss.
With that in mind I think $1,249 for a cutting edge LCD monitor is more than reasonable - you are getting a whole lot more for your money than you did 10 years ago.
I can't stand the image quality TN films provide - milky, compressed colours, black levels are generally terrible, any form of off axis viewing results in horrendous loss of image quality and the 'sunset glow' effect from the edge lit ccfl's, caused mainly by TN film's extremely limited viewing angles and inability to effectively filter light, is completely unacceptable in my view at any price.
Personally, I'd save my money and get something decent. TN film just doesn't cut it.
^ I understand your enthusiasm for your monitor, but for such an expensive item, having buttons that are "a bit hit or miss" is a bit poor don't you think? The best designed monitor IMHO is the Samsung 971p which has no buttons on it at all apart from power.
I can understand where you're coming from, you do get a brilliant picture quality compared to a cheap and cheerful TN panel, but you can buy a complete system for the cost of one of these. Most people, certainly myself included, cannot justify spending that much money on something which will not give a groundbreaking experience over a similar product at one third its price.
OK it aint the prettiest thing I've ever seen but its functional and looks unobtrusive. My only complaint is the touch controls are a bit hit and miss.
When you're spending that much money on a monitor having dodgy buttons is a bit off..