Could MVA be finally fast enough? (HS95P)

    Have any of you tried the new Sony HS95P? MVA-panel with response time of 12ms. Other specs are naturally great like with all MVA-panels. The price is pretty high, but if this would be THE one it wouldn't matter.

    Einmal editiert, zuletzt von Snaques ()

    I don't think it's a MVA-Panel, it's just a TN-Panel (but with x-black/x-bright technology). Of course it would be great to have such a fast MVA-Panel... 8)

    Given past experiences with claimed "16 ms" MVA/PVA and S-MVA (i.e. the HP L1955 ) one could assume that this is just once more a marketing trick.
    Yet, of course, I would be happy if Sony was going to prove us wrong this time.

    No it must be a MVA panel, the viewing angles are spec'ed at 170 degrees, no TN reaches these. It's most likely using the same overdrive technology as in the Eizo L778. This technology was developped by Mitsubishi.

    I've seen many sites claim the HS94P has 170/170 viewing angles as well but that's not true. Also, I've seen a mini review of the HS95P on some forum and it seems it uses a TN panel as well.

    Are you sure that the mini review wasn't about HS95, without P? Cause that is TN.


    Anyway I asked Sony Finland about it and they claimed it really is MVA. In addition they sent their new brochure that confirmed it.


    PS. Any reviews anywhere? Where was that miin review?

    I believe it was on hardforum.com. Some people have also said they compared i it to the HS94P and the image quality was virtually the same as were the viewing angles. The HS94P is TN so I don't see any reason for the HS95P not to be TN as well. Besides, if it was really a 12ms MVA we would have already heard about this technology. I don't own the monitor so I can't say for sure but I'm 99% certain it's a TN panel.

    Behardware also say it's a TN:


    Zitat

    The monitor’s characteristics are: contrast ratio 550:1, brightness (and we feel that this figure is really excessive) 500 cd/m², and response time 12 ms. The monitor has viewing angles of 160 degrees horizontal and vertical. This figure is rather surprising because this is a TN monitor.


    The 160 degrees vertical viewing angles figure is surprising because Sony measured it in the case of contrast ratio drop to 5:1 instead of usual 10:1 to make their monitors look better on paper while in reality nothing has changed.

    Don't trust behardware.com too much, in their latest test of 20" TFTs they also say the NEC2060 is a S-IPS while in fact it's a MVA...


    You are correct that some manufacturers "boost" the viewing angles by specifying them at CR 5:1 instead of 10:1. But even with this trick TNs cannot reach 170 degrees viewing angles

    Indeed they can't but I doubt that's the "official" specification for the HS95P anyway. I would be interested in this model too eventough I think it's very ugly but I'm pretty sure they use the same or very similar TN panel that they used in the HS94P. When the HS94P came out I thought it was a perfect monitor since many sites and magazines claimed the viewing angles of 170/170 and very high contrast ratio which unfortunetaly turned out to be untrue. I hope I'm wrong but I seriously doubt it. Some guy complained about it's viewing angles which is a good enough reason for me to believe it's a TN panel. I guess we should wait for someone who owns the monitor and knows the differences between the panels to clear this up.