Best 22" - 24" LCD HDCP Monitor? - Page 3

no, the 2407 is onl $600, the 2707 (27", you catch on the naming scheme quickly) is the $1300 one, samsung charges alomst $1000 for their 14"

hmm, looks good.
I'd like to have hdcp support but i don't die to!
I use my pc PRIMARY for gaming, so if i can't see protected content i say ''meh''!

Btw, thanks for the find. I wish i find some more good ones and compare them myself from the specifications and of course from people reviews.
I've seen models listed with 1000:1 contrast, outperformed by 700:1 ones so i'm not sure about how much can we trust the specs.
Well at least it's a good start!

hehe looks like somebody is gettin excited

I would never trust TFTs in the past! I am a CRT lover! If i don't finaly make it to find a good 20" TFT, then i'll go with a 19" CRT and never look back for the next couple of years!

I hope i'll end up with a good 20" though!

why dont you like widescreens?

Im using a 19inches Viewsonic VX922 (yes, FIRST in the world to be 2ms screen) because I didnt want to go widescreen and thought this was the BEST screen.

Now I see, it was a great screen but not the best. doesnt have hdcp and kinda missing wished features.

Now, the only screen I have find with all the requirements I want is only widescreen so Ill have to give it a try and see how things with widescreen goes

Samsung is releasin some new LCDs comin up here. Why isn't anyone down with samsung?

Why go for the cheapies? Lookin at your systems everyone has namebrand parts

around 245$ shipped.

and ill try the same settings that i have on my crt that is 10x7.

i plan on getting a new card in about 2 months or after the 86 series and r600 have been out for a while.

Thats a nice price congrats

nphield, is not that we go for the cheapest, we go for the best value for the money. If I can get a 24" screen with 1000:1 contrast, 500 bright, 5ms refresh rate, HDCP, 2 HDMI ports, built in USB,mic,audio,DVI,VGA and for $500, why not?

I would end up paying Waaaaaaaaaaay more for a samsung or viewsonic monitor with all this features.

Plus, Sceptre is not a cheap brand. It has showed us how great they are. Just look at their product reviews.

Too lazy to rewrite my reasons so i'll just copy paste them from a pm between me and friend taco:

"Not to mention that i don't like the wide monitors.
I play games and i'm not willing to have my 200+ games having issues with wide resolutions!
Before you tell wide is the future and current games support it or that i can use patches for older games i say Bah. PC's have enough issues as is so i prefer to use the mainstream 4:3 format which is supported by all and by everything!!
Last thing is that i always play games ONLY with max settings and at least 2XAA+16XAF. I am really crazy about this and that's why i have over 40 games waiting patiently for my upgrade. In my 3.2 P4 with X850XT PE i don't even want to look in the game menu!
With demands like the above you understand that there isn't really hardware good enough to aim above 1600x1200. Yes that includes the 8800 in about 4 months from now.

With all that said, any thoughts in a good 1600x1200@4:3 TFT? "

oh yeah and I forgot to mention, the sceptre im waiting for has a 1920x1200 resolution.

which will become the standard SOON

1920x1280=2,457,600
1680x1050=1,764,000

Given the numbers above and the fact that you are looking at packing pixels into a larger format screen like the 22" or 24" yeah it makes a difference.

Think of it this way:

1,764,000 pixels on a 20" screen or 1,764,000 pixels on a 24" screen?

Which would you rather have the same number of pixels on a much larger screen or a much larger number of pixels on a larger screen.

When you get to the larger scale screens (22" and 24" models are quite large) the difference in pixels are well appreciated.

Hope this helps..

Gateway 24 in FPD2485W $679 at BB. Ive had it for 2 months now, and Im still amazed by its size and how clear it is! 6ms 1920 x 1200 1000:1 contrast HDCP 1080p ready... Vista looks great along with everything else! I highly recomend if you can afford it!

yeah i hear those dells and apples are the $hit.

my 32inch sony hdtv is a standard 4.3 but displays hd content in widescreen. and in widescreen it is @30inches.

I project a 118" 1280x720P image on my wall

Gotta love it... I would really like to go to a 1080P projector but could not bring myself to buy that expensive of a projector.

720P looks really good though.

I would actually incorporate the 30" as my main monitor until I wanted to use the projector. Gaming at 118" is great.. This is one of the reasons I get so many folks to my Lan Parites.... Can you imagine 18, 30 something guys in "the cave" (my room above the garage) all playing COD2 and UT2k4?





We kinda stick with those games..

Those pics are before everything was finished... If ya look to the left of the second one you will see that my equipment closet was nothing more than a hole in the wall.

You can see the conduit stub out for my PJ in the first photo.

Each wall has an individual 30amp serivce and there are two separate 30 amp circuits routed to the equipment closet. There are 24 ports jacked into the walls at intervals up there too.. Gotta love it.

yeah it looks cool and with that wiring set up you can run
a good 5.1 or 7.1 surround set-up

no windows i see.

thats cool to.
my mom,s house has a window as big as her 110inch screen.
and it is right behind the screen, well about ten feet away.
so in the day time its useless.

I think the 6800 should do fine (you have sli right?, as we know that sli really is hype unless you have a high res), and too bad the monitor can't scale up to something like 2560*1600, now that would be some real gaming there

And Chess111, may comment you have a beautiful house, mine looked that way when we first had it made until the second day But since I have a little sister, she damaged all the walls when she was younger, so take pride in the fact you can actually project an image on your wall without seeing tons of marker or pencil on it, as my sister did that to my wall 5 years ago when she was 2

it means the screen is 20.1 inches, don't you get it They want to charge you $40 for that .1" 8O

I have 3 17 inch CRT's on my computer right now and I have been watching the 24 inch LCD market lately and so far 3 24inch Dell's are looking like the best choice

That's what I said, sli means nothing unless you have a high res, and yes, they are bastards

They didn't give me my daily taco

That thing is comparable to the dell 2407, and is my monitor of choice not including the price, pcworld did a review on it and showed it had as good or better quality than the 2407, the only reason why it got 1 pick was because of the better tuning settings

That's a nice feature, I know the 2707 dell has even better settings, but it's at $1300, so a nice buy you have there

I gotta go to bed, 'night

i got the monitor its here at my work still in the box.
ill find out tonight when it get home and hook it up.

Here is a question, for those of us that have really nice monitors that aren't HDCP compatible. Do you think there will be software to crack it? Since they are already coming out with the cracks for HD DVD and blue ray.