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"Gail Shaw" <initialsurname@sentech sa dot com> wrote:
> My 19" LCD packed up the other night, and I thought I'd replace it with a
> widescreen (20" or 21") LCD
>
> I've heard good things about the BenQ 20" and about the LG monitors.
>
> Anyone with personal experience with widescreen LCDs? It's going to be used
> for graphics, movie watching (a little) and gaming.
>
> I checked Tom's hardware, but all the LCD reviews I could see were last year
is quite good (acceptable to me) and it was quite cheap. But I found out later
Stephen
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And lo on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:28:26 -0000, scott <sco### [at] laptop com> did
spake, saying:
>> Look up saccadic masking, our eyes blank out info when they're moving so
>> you could have two screens with no intermission if they just in
>> different
>> places relative to a neutral background.
>
> You mean like the attached images? Which pair of squares are the same
> colour and which pair are different? (I used colours from Warp's
> vertical
> bar image)
I was thinking more top-left, top-left plus bottom-right, bottom-right,
reverse; so your eye would move from one to the other but not be able to
have both colours up at the same time for any comparison. No transition
flicker, no edge detection, just were those two colours the same.
--
Phil Cook
--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com
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Mike Raiford escribió:
> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>
>> First two and last two look quite similar from some angles (damned LCD
>> screen). Also, the black ones look all similar (damned gamma; the
>> world would be a better place if screens had had built-in gamma
>> correction since the beginning).
>
> Wow... Having a color corrected screen does wonders. I can see all 32
> levels. I can also see I need to run the calibration tool on my CRT
> again (the lower 2 levels don't show, but they do on the LCD)
>
> I've seen these grayscales used on photography sites occasionally to
> make sure brightness and contrast are optimal.
The problem is that if your screen is perfectly color-corrected,
everything looks weird, because the people who design websites, etc.
work with non-color-corrected screens!
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"Gail Shaw" <initialsurname@sentech sa dot com> wrote:
> My 19" LCD packed up the other night, and I thought I'd replace it with a
> widescreen (20" or 21") LCD
>
> I've heard good things about the BenQ 20" and about the LG monitors.
>
> Anyone with personal experience with widescreen LCDs? It's going to be used
> for graphics, movie watching (a little) and gaming.
>
> I checked Tom's hardware, but all the LCD reviews I could see were last year
I have a Hewlett Packard "HP w20"
For graphics/rendering/3D-Modeling, videos/animations, DVD's the monitor is OK
For Office and development a wide-monitor is IMO generally better than
a 4:3-monitor.
"Gaming" - I can't say very much to this, because I'm using LINUX.
The monitor does have two horrible (and IMO absolutly useless)
integrated speakers. But this is not a specific problem of *this* monitor
the most integrated monitor-speakers sounds terrible.
So I don't use them.
My conclusion:
I love this wide-monitor and never want back to a 4:3-monitor
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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> The problem is that if your screen is perfectly color-corrected,
> everything looks weird, because the people who design websites, etc.
> work with non-color-corrected screens!
I still keep Gamma at 2.2, since Windows apps are usually designed to
that, and most websites created on the PC are designed to that. The D65
whitepoint takes some getting used to, for a while everything looks too
yellow, but colors look richer.
In an ideal world, people would use an image editor that has color
management (Photoshop) and web browsers would have proper color
management, which would eliminate the gamma and color issues. But using
a proper color-managed workflow is tricky, especially when working with
multiple outputs.
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"Meothuru" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message
news:web.47427b6b1d7416445a73e3b40@news.povray.org...
> My conclusion:
>
> I love this wide-monitor and never want back to a 4:3-monitor
>
I fell in love with the widescreen when I bought a 17" laptop. It's heavy,
but so nice to work on.
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"Mike Raiford" <mra### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
news:47418ced$1@news.povray.org...
> Gail Shaw wrote:
> > My 19" LCD packed up the other night, and I thought I'd replace it with
a
> > widescreen (20" or 21") LCD
>
> My home monitor is a Samsung 22" widescreen (Can't remember the exact
> model number off-hand) The only drawback is if you get far enough
> off-axis the colors begin to distort, but it has good contrast ratio,
> and very fast response time.
Not sure if there's space on the desk for a 22". The 20 is going to take
some squeezing. Will look at it.
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Gail Shaw wrote:
> Not sure if there's space on the desk for a 22". The 20 is going to take
> some squeezing. Will look at it.
Measure first. :) I originally had a 19" CRT that seemed to take up a
lot of space on the desk, the 22" took up a little more space, but still
fit. if 20 or 21 is a squeeze, I'd definitely check dimensions before
I purchased the screen.
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"Gail Shaw" <initialsurname@sentech sa dot com> wrote:
> I've heard good things about the BenQ 20" and about the LG monitors.
I recently bought an LG monitor, a 24" widescreen L246W and I'm pretty
happy with it. The type of panel is important if you're doing art with POV-Ray,
or anything that requires accurate colors. I compromised a bit with the L246W,
a lot less expensive than the more accurate panel types.
Lots of good info on monitors, including specific model recommendations, here:
http://hardforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=78
The sticky thread on "TFT Technology Breakdown and Model/Panel Index" is
especially useful.
Mark
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"Renderdog" <slo### [at] hiwaaynet> wrote in message
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>
> http://hardforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=78
>
> The sticky thread on "TFT Technology Breakdown and Model/Panel Index" is
> especially useful.
Thanks. I'll check that out.
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