Beiträge von tetsuo

Hi Smallboy!

Congrats on your new monitor!
moving to a 6600 won't make any difference image quality wise, since you, as you pointed out, play no games at all. The DVI signal transmits losslessly and the internal graphics chip on the x300 calculates colors and its corresponding bits and bytes entirely digtal anyway, so it's just as good as any other card with DVI
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The only reasons I could possibly see for you to upgrade your graphics card would be TiVo functionality, in case you missed this in the X300.
Or maybe if you found your card to be too slow for scrolling down large documents (PDFs or HTML/Flash) pages without things starting to get jerky. But I'd be surprised if a X300 turned out to be too slow for these tasks.
Hmm dunno, what else ?
Maybe HDTV hardware decoding?

no specific card needed. they are all capable of it.
the only thing that is essential for great image quality would be DVI. Make sure your card has it.

yup,
since you are saying you will be playing no games at all, the slight response time advantage of the P19-2 becomes irrelevant.The emphasis on color fidelity that you mentioned clearly directs the spotlight onto the S1910 with its 10 bit lookup table for this purpose. And the 70 Euros you would have to pay more for the S1910 don't make too much of a difference as well.

Some people who start using TFTs for the first time complain about this problem of eye strain. It can probably ascribed to using the LCD screen with too high brightness settings in a room that is too dimly lit. Either turn down the brightness of the monitor or turn up the light of the working environment, or best: do both of them. The brightness LCDs can produce is way higher than what CRTs are capable of and can therefore come as quite a shock in the beginning.
Some TFTs' brightness is still more than sufficient at such low settings as i.e. 20 %. For example, I always run my TFT screen at a brightness of 15 % and it seems just fine.

If you need large pages to fit on the screen go for a 20 or 21 inch model with 1600x1200 resolution. As for the text to be still large enough, increase the font size settings in case the pixel pitch of the new, higher resolution seems to tiny.

If money is not an iusse, go for the Eizo 24 inch model (1920x1200). As an alternative, have a look at the Fujitsu Siemens P20-2 (1600x1200).

greets

The Formac gallery 1900 review is up now, as promised.
http://www.prad.de/en/monitore…c_gallery_1900_raven.html

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Originally posted by small_boy22
I have to tell you thought that I like the proposition of the Fujitsu Siemens P19-2. [...]

I have read a review of a guy writing that S1910 is damn good monitor [...]

Have you also read our PRAD.de in-house reviews of both the P19-2 and the S1910?

Here is a list of all our reviews

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Originally posted by small_boy22
I have some more questions regarding the Eizo S1910 model.
There is an OSD menu named screen manager.
From within this menu will I be able to change brightness and contrast .. etc.. and all the thing that I could change with the use of software screen manager pro ?

Yes.

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FS P19-2 has 8bit gamma correction whereas Eizo S1910 has 10bit gamma correction.
10bit gamma correction == better colors right ?

Yes.

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FS P19-2 is name at the specs as Plug n' Play .. eizo is Plug n' Play too i guess, right ?

Yes.

Use our
PRAD Feature Guide to learn more about specifications of certain models. Just select "Formac" as manufacturer and set the response time to "8ms".
The detailed review of the "formac gallery 1900 raven black" is currently being translated into English. It should be up by the day after tomorrow, at the latest.

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Originally posted by vripp
So I need a monitor for just half a year. But it should be a good one with low price and a MVA/PVA-Overdrive

Hi,
You can get the 19 inch formac gallery which is confirmed to have MVA plus Overdrive for around 350 Euros. And it also comes with DVI as opposed to the C19 which has analog D-Sub only.

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Original von small_boy22
Isn't that an issue for TFT screens ?? Because with so little refresh rate after a while they are getting tiring

Hi!
60 HZ is not an issue in TFTs. It cannot be compared to CRT monitors since TFT is a so called "sample and hold" type technology, meaning that each pixel keeps illuminating and is not being refreshed until the color or brightness value for this pixel has actually changed. Thus, there is no flickering and no eye strain as it is known with CRTs, - this would remain to be true even if the refresh rate was at 10 Hz (well, gaming and movies would be jerky, of course, but thats another story). CRTs, in contrast, work differently: they draw each picture x-times per second over and over again no matter if the content has changed or not, leading to a kind of constant strobe light disco effect" in front of oneself if the hz rate is too low.

hope to have cleared things up on this a little.

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Originally posted by webjunkie99_de
Der Zugewinn an Breite beträgt gerade mal 4% wenn du einen Widescreen nimmst. Dafür werden dir in der Höhe 13,5% "geklaut". Du verlierst also über alles ca. 10% Bildfläche. Wo liegt also der Vorteil????

Falls ich mich verrechnet haben sollte kann mich ja jemand korrigieren.

Also in unserem besagten Fall, wo es um 20 Zoll 16:10 vs 20 Zoll 4:3 geht, sind das meinen Berechnungen zufolge 179,78 cm² vs 192 cm².
Man hat also ca 6,4 % Bildfläche weniger wenn man einen Widescreen- einem 4:3-Monitor vorzieht. Oder umgekehrt gesehen ist ein 4:3-er um 6,8 % größer als ein 16:10 widescreen.
Unter Berücksichtigung der bereits gennanten Eigenschaften des menschlichen Blickfeldes schmilzt die Bedeutung einer ohnehin schon kleinen Flächeneinbuße von nur 6-7% noch weiter und kann, wie ich finde, vernachlässigt werden.

Was mich allerdings stören würde ist die Tatsache, dass wenn ein Spiel nicht die native 1680er Auflösung unterstützt und ich somit gezwungen wäre in 1280x1024 (uninterpoliert, 1:1 Darstellung per Gafiktreiber) zu spielen, würde das Spiel flächenmässig wesentlich kleiner als auf einem 5:4 19 Zöller dargestellt. Ich werde mal demnächst ausrechnen wieviel das in prozent sind.

In diesem Zusammenhang ist auch die Frage interessant: Wieviel Spiele unterstützen die Notebook Auflösung 1440*1050, die bei einem 20er Widescreen zumindest die Vertikale ganz ausfüllen würde?

Gruß

Johannes

Hi there!

Im currently translating the recent PRAD.de review of the Viewsonic VP191s (8ms) into English, which is about to become available shortly.
To make a long story short:
Andi (the reviewer) came to the conclusion that, in terms of ghosting, the VP191s' panel is slightly inferior the one that's incorporated in the L778 and P19-2. He derived this from the fact that streaks formed by the VP191s appear somewhat brighter with certain color combinations and are therefore more distinct.

regards

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Original von Kashyyk
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- Acer AL2021ms-2 (16 ms)
MVA Panel, ohne Overdrive nehme ich an, steht zumindest nichts dabei. ...

das Panel im Acer AL2021ms-2 ist hoechtswahrscheinlich vom Typ S-IPS.
Ich kann dir das zwar nicht 100%ig bestätigen aber die Daten lassen darauf schliessen. Es gibt bis auf 3 Ausnahmen keine MVA panels mit spezifizierten 16ms.

nice!
I just wish they would start bringing forward more 1920x1200 panels in the desktop area.

LG Philips is the world's largest manufacturer of LCD panels.

Most LCD monitors on the market have an LG Philips panel in them.
They used to have some flaws earlier, but that's pretty much handled by now.

Aspect mode is very common, but I'd recommend you to first download the PDF manual and look up whether its in the OSD once you've shortlisted some models. Even if not, - ATI and NVidia offer this feature in their control panels. Don't know about their Apple drivers though.

Finding a 19 incher with 1280 x 960 seems impossible to me. But you can still always select the 1280 x 960 , choose "aspect" display mode in OSD or graphics card menu (mostly for DVI only) and thereby have an uninterpolated 4:3 ratio with small black bars at the top and the bottom.
If there's no panel type given, you can spot and avoid TN panels by looking at the specified viewing angles. 160 and less is TN. 170 and more is always MVA or IPS.
I saw some 19 inch LGs around 250 bucks at newegg.

take care

Hi there,
Where are you from/ Where will you buy the monitor? The reason I'm aksing is because the range of models available in North America greatly differs from those available in Europe or Asia.
But you should be able to get a 19 inch LCD with DVI around 300 dollars.
As for the 16.7 million colors, just make sure the monitor does NOT have a TN panel - which leaves MVA/PVA or IPS panels as the only options. Don't know about Mac though. What's their native resolution? Make sure the gfx card in the MAC you are going to buy has a DVI output, if not, look for adpaters.

Hi there,

You also might wanna take a look at the - imho very promising - specs of the FSC ScenicView P20-2.

S-PVA panel
16 black to black response time
11 ms grey to grey
700 :1 contrast
horiz.: 178 °/ vert.: 178 °

pretty new panel that meets your gaming needs.
But I guess in the end it all comes down to price and availability.
I don't know about Denmark, but in Germany it is shipped for around 700 Euros and less.

*Stirn wisch*

FAQs, News, Lexikon und die restlichen Specials werden wohl aller Vorraussicht nach im Laufe der nächsten 5 Tage fertiggestellt sein.

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Originally posted by globalplayer
...native speaker im Team?

Englisch-Muttersprachler bin ich nicht, aber doch nahezu zweisprachig.
Ich bitte ebenfalls darum etwaige Fehler zu mailen.

Grüße

Johannes