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• ViewSonic Overdrive LCDs: A New Era of Very Fast Panels?*
  Thursday 26 May 2005 – 07:00
  ViewSonic says its first LCD panel to offer a new gray-to-gray response time calculation and "Overdrive" signal technology is bursting with speed. Given the traditional disconnect between LCD vendors' claims and reality, we thought we would pit ViewSonic's TN VP192s LCD with a black-to-white latency of 12 ms, against its new VP191b with a purported GTG response time of 8 ms.
• 8ms 19" LCDs: Speed for Gaming, but at What Cost?*
  Tuesday 15 February 2005 – 06:00
  Manufacturers are quickly moving from 12 ms to 8 ms response times on 19" displays. But remember that with 17" models the improvement in response time was accompanied by a substantial reduction of viewing angles and deterioration of color rendering.
• Can 19" LCDs Pass the Frag Test?*
  Monday 10 January 2005 – 06:00
  LCD vendors claim their new crop of 19" displays are up to par with their 17" wares. But our past tests show that OEM claims in this space aren't always worth too much. We put four of BenQ, NEC, Philips and Xerox' 19" finest to the test.
• All-Pro LCDs Part 2*
  Tuesday 30 August 2005 – 07:00
  As promised, we put a new batch of what some vendors claim are the latest-and-greatest professional-quality LCD monitors to the test. For $1,500 and more, are wares from Eizo, ViewSonic and, yes, Apple really the best retail-channel monitors you can buy?
• Are 17" LCDs Dead?*
  Wednesday 20 July 2005 – 07:00
  Are 17" LCD monitors dead and buried? The answer is far from cut and dry as 17" vendors scramble to upgrade their wares with eye-catching designs and completely new features. Meanwhile, 19" monitor prices continue to slide.
• Great Design: 2 New 17" LCDs from LG*
  Wednesday 20 April 2005 – 07:00
  If you thought not much was happening where LCD monitor design is concerned, you're about to change your mind! LG has obviously been giving its design center pep talks, as evidenced by two really original units that are a breath of fresh air for PC monitor design.
• The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful: 17" LCDs Reviewed*
  Tuesday 23 November 2004 – 06:00
  Since our last review, LCDs have gotten cheaper, but not necessarily better. We put the screws to eight 17" LCD monitors to see which ones came out on top with wares from both new and veteran vendors. Some pleasantly surprised. Others didn't.