Hallo there

I belive that this post should go in Gfx & displays but unfortunatly the board admin decided in his infinate wisdom that the only subsections needed in that forum was GFX related ones and since I must select a subsection I cant post it in there, so here goes.

I'm looking for some advice on some flatpanels for graphics use (DTP, Photo manipulation, digital art exc.). I have been looking at some panels (Eizo and LaCie) that was kinda a nobrainer but ther turned out to be wayyyy outa my price range. Colour precision and image quality is the main concern but price is also a concern.

So I am looking around for some alternatives and came up with the folloeing; Samsung 215TW, Samsung 214T and Viewsonic VP930 (the Viewsonic screen is an inch or two smaller then what I am looking for).

So basicly I am looking for a great screen for the right price. Any advice, thoughts or recomendations? Thanks in advance

Unfortunately even Eizo and LaCie do not equal CRT monitors in there color rendition or their image quality, although they are close.

Another good LCD is the NEC MultiSync LCD2180WG although probably also outside your budget.
http://reviews.cnet.com/lcd-monito [...] al=1589536

For a tenth of the price you might want to look into a CRT, although they are getting harder to find. I bought a Philips CRT last year.

I, myself, am looking for an LCD monitor(on the cheap).

Regarding your comment about a place to put this post: There is actually a section called "LCDs....", but it only gets like 3 replies a day.

thx for the quick reply m8.

I am looking for a flatpanel for several reasons (room on my desktop, power consumtion exc.) and am willing to be less picky with the co,lour precission to get a screen that takes up less of the space on my desk

I am on the other hand having a hard time finding a price for the NEC monitor (it seems it isn't in stores yet, atleast not in Denmark 8)

But again thx for teh speedy reply, if you have other words of wisdom they will be greatly apriciated 8)

(please excuse any bad grammer/spelling I'm a Dane, can't be helped 8)

Check out this link:

The LCD Thread

http://forums.anandtech.com/messag [...] erthread=y

What is your budget?

Since color accruacy is important to you all monitors using TN panels should be off your list since they only use 6-bits to represent each color of Red, Green & Blue. That works out to only 64 shades of each color which in turn means TN panels can only produce 262K colors. Thru the dithering process, the remaining 16 million colors can be estimated.

The best type of panel technology is S-IPS and all of it's derivatives like AS-IPS and the current H-IPS because they are all 8-bit panels. However, these monitors are probably outside of your budget range. I currently use a 26" NEC LCD2690WUXi that uses a H-IPS panel (made by LG/Philips) and has some built in electronics to maintain some color and tonal accuracy. At $1,200 it is kinda expensive compared to what most people are willing to pay for an LCD monitor. That was after a recent $400 price drop and does not include the SpectraView hardware colorimeter to calibrate the monitor.

If you are going for a 24" LCD monitor then keep in mind that these monitors are no longer exclusively MPA or PVA panels which also 8-bit panels, but are generally not considered as good as S-IPS panels. The least expensive non TN 24" LCD monitor will probably cost you at least $550 before any rebates.There is one H-IPS 24" monitor and that's the NEC LCD2490WUXi, but it's selling for about $1,100 and does not come with SpectraView.

Traditionally all consumer level 22" LCD monitors use TN panels. However, the newly released Lenovo ThinkVision L220x is the first 22" LCD to use a S-PVA panel and is currently priced at $500 online. Inventory may be iffy since it has just been released. The monitor also features 1920 x 1200 resolution instead of 1680 x 1050 for all other 22" LCD monitors.

http://shopper.cnet.com/lcd-monito [...] 29728.html

There are some LCD monitors smaller than 22" which do use MVA/PVA panel technology, but I don't know of any off the top of my head since I've only been looking at 24"+ monitors.

About my budget: I am aiming for a prise of around 5-600 US but am willing to spend around 800 US, if it cant be helped.
(Prices are a bit dificult to calculate to US dollars since the taxes here have a tendency to make stuff a bit more expensive)

The panel size I am aiming for is around 20" and the reasons why I chose flatpanels are: I need desktop space for when I work in traditional media (Pen and paper exc.) and the fact that I live in a flat (That we here in denmark call a newyourker apartment. An apartment that I completely love by the way. where everything (except the bathroom/toilet) is in the same room, witch basicly means that my screen will be located in the middel of my livingroom.

To sum it up: 19" is a bit on the small side 24" is a bit on the big side so a 20-22" screen is optimal. I am gonna work with 2 screens so widescreen isn't realy nessasary. So a 20-22" screen for around 5-800 US.

btw: I am realy VERY happy that you guys are taking the time out of (I am sure) your busy schedual to guide me in my choice
of a screen. Thx ALOT!!