Tips for Buying a Monitor

good vid :)

i want those moniters

is the monitor on the right not wide screen?

That’s a lot screen space you’ve got there.

Also, my setup is a Macbook Pro connected via DVI to S-Video to my 27″ crt tv. It’s great for video but not useful for text. I really want one of those 30inchers but they are really pricey for me, a broke college student.

No, they are both Dell’s 30″ widescreens.

Those monitors are brilliant!

good vid :)

i want those moniters

is the monitor on the right not wide screen?

That’s a lot screen space you’ve got there.

Also, my setup is a Macbook Pro connected via DVI to S-Video to my 27″ crt tv. It’s great for video but not useful for text. I really want one of those 30inchers but they are really pricey for me, a broke college student.

be careful with response times - many manufacturers are now quoting grey to grey response times in order to make their gear seem more impressive when it actually sucks monkey balls.

if you’re going for a widescreen I would seriously recommend going only as low as 20″, 19″ widescreen monitors are not worth purchasing because of the amount of problems you could have as well as image quality problems.. this is because of the 1440×900 resolution (which means, for applications that don’t support wide aspect resolitions you’ll be stuck with 1024×768 as your resolution of choice.. some 19″ widescreen monitors will allow you to use 1280×1024 but the image will have been resized and will look like ****).

always make sure that your graphics card can handle the native resolution of your screen (this is assuming you’re going for some lcd goodness, yes some people still use crt’s because of a number of factors) otherwise you will have to either use a non-native resolution and the quality of the image will drop as a result.

which leads me onto the next point, all lcd monitors have what is known as a “native” resolution.. in simple terms, this is the size of the display setting that the monitor has been optimised for and is the setting that won’t be “resized” (known as scaling) or altered by the monitor electronics and therefore won’t have the blurry, jagged looks that you get when you set the resolution to something like 800×600 on an lcd that has a native res of 1280×1024 for example. Also, you won’t be able to set the resolution higher than the native res - if you do you will get the helpful “out of range” message.

The next thing to be careful of is that should you be sitting with an older graphics card such as my 6600gt, 24″ is about the largest you can buy before you have to buy a new graphics card, this is because of the sheer amount of pixels being rendered.
In order to go above 24″ you will need a video card that supports SLI (and not the old SLI that those of us around in the Voodoo card days will remember ;) ) or dual linked dvi in order to support the number of pixels a 27″ or above monitor is capable of displaying.

No, they are both Dell’s 30″ widescreens.

If i had a ton of money to spend id go for those reolutions, but my 1680×1050,2ms response, hdmi/dvi/component/composite/scart/s-video/vga/hdcp, matte screened, deep contast samsung monitor for only £250 does me fine :)

dell has a new 20″ monitor with a nice resolution of 1680×1050 with a 2ms response time and a contrast ratio of 2000:1 which is actually more than dell’s 30″ that chris has which only does 1000:1. a nice feature of it is that it has a built-in 2megapixel webcam. decent price too! $300

Those monitors are brilliant!

Nice vid Chris. You are the one who influenced me to get a second monitor, lol.
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If i had a ton of money to spend id go for those reolutions, but my 1680×1050,2ms response, hdmi/dvi/component/composite/scart/s-video/vga/hdcp, matte screened, deep contast samsung monitor for only £250 does me fine :)

I’m NOT bitching, but maybe people could just try to remember ‘power consumption’ figures.

i’ve been saving up for a apple 30 inch cinema display 2560 x 1600 resolutions but in light some news apple is going to have backlit lcd’s for there new displays line and top of that a 32 inch apple cinema display is coming out, so i’m definitely getting that 32 inch with backlit.

oh, and an extra thing… I was in an apple store not long ago and I saw a connector on the back of a new model of imac and had never seen it before… it was a small form factor dvi port!

dell has a new 20″ monitor with a nice resolution of 1680×1050 with a 2ms response time and a contrast ratio of 2000:1 which is actually more than dell’s 30″ that chris has which only does 1000:1. a nice feature of it is that it has a built-in 2megapixel webcam. decent price too! $300

Given that you like vertical, i’m surprised that you don’t have at least one of those on its end. I would—especially given that you’d still have a horizontal one for movies. (It’d free up some desk space, too!)

Nice vid Chris. You are the one who influenced me to get a second monitor, lol.
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I’m NOT bitching, but maybe people could just try to remember ‘power consumption’ figures.

i’ve been saving up for a apple 30 inch cinema display 2560 x 1600 resolutions but in light some news apple is going to have backlit lcd’s for there new displays line and top of that a 32 inch apple cinema display is coming out, so i’m definitely getting that 32 inch with backlit.

Given that you like vertical, i’m surprised that you don’t have at least one of those on its end. I would—especially given that you’d still have a horizontal one for movies. (It’d free up some desk space, too!)

You can convert betwean vga and dvi for most graficcard and monitors.

You can convert betwean vga and dvi for most graficcard and monitors.

The video is waaaaay laggy chris!

im starting to run out of realestate on my 17inch lcd….

im starting to run out of realestate on my 17inch lcd….

I’ve got to second “Alphaxion” here on the importance of “native resolution”.

A few years back I was trying to second-source some flat panels for critical care bedside monitoring. The ICU staff really wanted bigger (20″ +) monitors that could be more easily seen from across the room.

Unfortunately, the monitoring CPU had a fixed resolution of 1024×768, so the heart rhythm waveforms looked like ca-ca on the larger monitors.

Does 5ms suck ? I have a 22″ benQy and saw alot of 2’s in that category so i just wanna know if it sucks, specs wise

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Does 5ms suck ? I have a 22″ benQy and saw alot of 2’s in that category so i just wanna know if it sucks, specs wise

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You are not going to notice a 3ms difference. This whole “response time” thing has largely become a bragging rights thing since most new “quality” monitors are sufficient on the response time side of things. 5ms and below is fine in 99% percent of situations.

i have a 65 inch tv 1080p which is my monitor ha ha top that by the way i also have my ps3 hooked up to it also hd looks amazing !!!!!

omarbadr36

You are not going to notice a 3ms difference. This whole “response time” thing has largely become a bragging rights thing since most new “quality” monitors are sufficient on the response time side of things. 5ms and below is fine in 99% percent of situations.

i have a 65 inch tv 1080p which is my monitor ha ha top that by the way i also have my ps3 hooked up to it also hd looks amazing !!!!!

CRT all the way! :)

CRT all the way! :)

I do have a good digital monitor… just 17″, 200Hz refresh - also I use just at 100, 2048×1536 maximum rezolution - and I use usually just 1280×960, and YES, it is a CRT monitor with the contrast over 100.000. And with multimedia enhancements: speakers and mikes…

Actually I have 2! But my ATI Radeon 9800 Pro can hold it.

It is true that one take 3/4 of a half of desk support size, but when I do photo corrections, the final result on paper show it worth the $2000 ten years ago.

YES, if it could be just 2″ deep and not 18″, it would be… perfect. Finally, I said that not the size mather, but the image quality. And at 100Hz, no strain to eye by flickering.

No strain even after more than 12 hour of daily work!

2ms is crazily excessive, in fact, MOST 2ms that I have seen are really a 5ms panel to begin with

2ms is crazily excessive, in fact, MOST 2ms that I have seen are really a 5ms panel to begin with

im getting a 22 inch and thats fine with me

im getting a 22 inch and thats fine with me

im getting a speacily made 64 inch………. jk

same here but i want avg avi composive and biult in free view

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thats almost as big as my tv o.0