Hello all, i am new on this forum, but appreciate it very much and have found the advices given here very interesting. I hope you'll forgive me for my english.
I don't know if it's the proper section to post this, i supose it could also be posted in the TFT News section as well, but since this post is directed at Totamec i thought i would post it here.
I live in France, and i was quite interested in the Iiyama ProLite E485S-S, a 19" lcd monitor. I wanted to share with you the results of my researchs.
The Iiyama ProLite E485S-S is given to feature a good price-performance ratio for internet/office applications in "the What-To-Buy Guide".
This model has very strange "flotting" specifications that dont really give much confidence :
Note: http://www.clust.com is the only french online store that i found to give the 23ms specification.
20ms response time specification found in :
small résumé on www.iiyama.fr ( France )
detailed technical information on www.iiyama.fr, pdf document ( France )
detailed technical information on www.iiyama.co.uk, pdf document ( United Kingdom )
detailed technical information on www3.iiyama.de, pdf document ( Germany )
technical information from ldlc.com ( french online store )
technical information from www.1000ordi.fr ( french online store )
technical information from www.pixmania.com ( french online store )
23ms response time specification found in :
detailed technical information on www.iiyama.fr, html page ( France )
fiche technique sur www.prad.de ( Germany )
detailed technical information on www.iiyama.co.uk, html page ( United Kingdom )
detailed technical information on www3.iiyama.de, html page ( Germany )
technical information from clust.com ( french online store )
Note : i didn't find one french online store which was brave enough to give the number of colors of this monitor.
Number of colors 16,2 Mio specification found in :
detailed technical information on www.iiyama.fr, html page ( France )
detailed technical information on www.iiyama.fr, pdf document ( France )
detailed technical information on www.iiyama.co.uk, pdf document ( United Kingdom )
detailed technical information on www.iiyama.co.uk, html page ( United Kingdom )
detailed technical information on www3.iiyama.de, html page ( Germany )
detailed technical information on www3.iiyama.de, pdf document ( Germany )
Number of colors 16,70 Mio specification found in :
technical information from www.prad.de ( yes i find your site very helpfull :) ) ( Germany )
also :
Games/Vidéo appreciation from iiyama sites :
8/8 from www.iiyama.co.uk
6/8 from www.iiyama.fr
8/8 from www3.iiyama.de
One can remark that it's exactly the same trend with the E481S model, they must be thinking that french players are more picky about their lcd to play games
It is remarkable that on the french iiyama site they even go to the extent as to give the 20ms and 23ms specification on exactly the same page. Otherwise all iiyama sites give both specifications, the 20ms one being found in the pdf information sheet.
So it's quite interesting to see that all iiyama sites give this model as a mva panel with 16.2Mio colors, which obviously is very unusual.
Now we come to the main reason that i posted this here as i found a very interesting quote from your site and from you, Totamec :
QuoteThe first 12/ 16ms VA panels are comming on the market. But they jump between 16bit and 8bit colours as soon as the have to hurry up during games/ videos.
So can it be possible that the panel on this lcd is a kind of new technology, with two levels of color rendition ? Or is this all a big mistake from iiyama ?
All of this happening with a lcd market no quite trustable at the moment, with an enduring unwillingness from the lcd makers to give any precise information on the panel incorporated in each of their models, and quite enjoying to take customers for idiots it seems...
As i know you recommend the Iiyama ProLite E481S from time to time, by which i am very interested ( but a little less confident of iiyama at the moment of course ), i was wondering what you could think of all of this.
Cheers.
ps: btw, i am only a concerned customer who feels we should be allowed to be more informed of what we buy, as i think you are too obviously, and have posted this message allready today on a french forum. I am in no way a member of some conspiracy group, here to knock down iiyama. I learned german in school, but shamefully have all forgotten about it, but this very nice site could be an enjoyable means to refresh my german