
The Fall season has been a busy one for TFT monitors. New players have entered the market - like the famous barebone manufacturer Shuttle and the copy-machine giant Xerox. Many new panels that had been long awaited are now available, and latency times as claimed by the manufacturers have gone below 10 ms in some cases. But even though the trend is towards improvement of monitor responsiveness, it's achieved a little too much at the expense of other characteristics like angles of vision or quality of color rendering.
Since everybody is not an inveterate gamer, we've chosen to test 8 monitors covering the entire spectrum of possible uses. You'll find out about fast monitors (12 and 16 ms), but also monitors suited to graphics and photo retouching with longer response times (25 ms and above) but with excellent color rendering, close to what CRT monitors can provide. From entry level to deluxe models, from 12 ms to 25 ms: Take your choice and follow the guide!
- Introduction
- LG 1720B: Luxury At A Bargain Price
- A Luxury Case
- High Color
- Spatial Uniformity
- Response Time
- In Practice
- LG 1730S: The Newcomers From LG
- Finish: In The Shadow Of The 1720B
- Accurate, But Not Beyond
- Spatial Uniformity
- In Practice
- Sony SDM-HS74P: In A Class By Itself
- Design According To Sony
- X-Black Or X-Bright?
- Spatial Uniformity
- In Practice
- Samsung 710T/N
- Spare Lines
- Respect Of The Colors
- Spatial Uniformity
- In Practice
- Hyundai Q17+: Worthy Of Its Predecessors
- So Like Before
- Color Rendering
- Spatial Uniformity
- In Practice
- Xerox XL775D: Making A Debut
- Top-of-the-line Design
- Hard To Adjust
- Spatial Uniformity
- In Practice
- NEC Accusync LCD72VM
- No-frill Design
- Spatial Uniformity
- ViewSonic VX715
- Exemplary Design
- Bright Colors
- Spatial Uniformity
- In Practice
- The Final Verdict: It Depends On What You Want