Sign in with
Sign up | Sign in

  • Your selection:
  • Tag Monitors
  • Remove all
  • zAll(32774)
  • AArticles(1234)
  • BForums(31540)

FILTERS

TYPE
  • Review
  • News
  • How To
  • Reference
  • Round-Up
DATE
TAG
  • Displays
  • Peripherals
  • Samsung
  • Tom's Hardware Top Picks
  • Hewlett Packard
  • More
BRAND
  • Dell
  • Asus
  • NEC
  • Viewsonic
  • LG
  • More
  • Your selection:
  • Tag Monitors
  • Remove all
  • A Display Testing Explained: How We Test Monitors and TVs

    - in Articles > Monitors

    Equipment, Setup and Methodology and drivers from the signal chain, allowing the display to receive true reference patterns. The i1Pro is very accurate and best-suited for measuring color on all types of displays, regardless of the backlight technology used. Since the C

    Brightness, Contrast and Calibration -world than on/off readings because it tests a display’s ability to simultaneously maintain low black and full white levels, factoring in screen uniformity. The average of the eight full-white measurements is divided by the average of the eight full

    See more results

    Viewing Angles, Uniformity, Pixel Response and Input Lag . If the value is under 10 percent, we consider the monitor essentially perfect with no visible problems. In the white field test, our benchmark is the same 10 percent. Few displays score higher than that. If a display has a uniformity

    Grayscale Tracking, Gamma Response and Color Gamut when possible, even if the gains are small, to show you a display’s full potential. When we compare monitors, the lowest average Delta E value comes out on top. Patterns used: Gray Step, Gray Fields 0-100 percent Lower average Delta E

    Video Processing and Signal Handling This part of our benchmark suite is unique to HDTV reviews. We use a series of pass/fail tests to determine the ability of a display to process different kinds of video signals. Most of the time, you want your source components

  • A Dell's 34-Inch Curved 21:9 Cinema Display Coming In December

    - in Articles > Monitors

    . Theoretically, the curved nature of the displays brings every vertical line of pixels to the same distance from your eyes, creating a more accurate presented distance on a 2d surface, which should create a more immersive gaming experience. Display

  • A LG Display Reveals an 18-inch Flexiblem OLED Panel

    - in Articles > Display

    R, thereby leading the future display market," said In-Byung Kang, Senior Vice President and Head of the R&D Center at LG Display. This isn't the first time we've seen flexible displays, although this is likely the first of its kind to be larger

  • A Acer's New 4K Display Packs Nvidia G-Sync for Gamers

    - in Articles > Monitors

    and distracting screen tearing, lower display stuttering and lower input lag. The tech was announced back in October 2013, and is just now starting to appear in third-party displays. "Our commitment to create a pure gaming experience led us to G

  • A Asus ROG Swift PG278Q 27-inch G-Sync Monitor Review

    - in Articles > Monitors

    ROG Swift PG278Q, A Display Technology Revolution From the tone of this review, you can probably tell we’re excited about G-Sync. It’s the first revolutionary display technology we've seen in a very long time. Advances in host and graphics processing performance are so frequent

    Measurement And Calibration Methodology: How We Test moving out from white in a straight line. The further a point is from center, the greater the saturation until you hit 100 percent at the edge of the gamut triangle. This shows us the display’s response at a cross-section of color points. Many

    See more results

    Results: Brightness and Contrast is measured, yielding a somewhat more real-world metric than on/off readings because we see a display’s ability to simultaneously maintain both low black and full white levels, factoring in screen uniformity, too. The average of the eight full

    Results: Color Gamut and Performance improvement that means Asus' Swift is pretty close in its stock form. Gamut Volume: Adobe RGB 1998 And sRGB There are basically two categories of displays in use today: those that conform to the sRGB/Rec. 709 standard like HDTVs, and wide

    Results: Viewing Angles and Uniformity , demonstrating a single hotspot in the center. It’s pretty subtle and we could only see it with our i1Pro, not our eyes. Screen Uniformity: Color To measure color uniformity, we display an 80-percent white field and measure the Delta E error

    Asus ROG Swift PG278Q G-Sync Monitor Review months back that allowed adventurous owners of Asus' VG248QE to modify the display themselves, enabling G-Sync functionality with an appropriate GeForce GTX graphics board. Today we have the first G-Sync-enabled screen in our labs, Asus’ ROG

    Results: Grayscale Tracking and Gamma Response The majority of monitors, especially newer models, display excellent grayscale tracking (even at stock settings). It’s important that the color of white be consistently neutral at all light levels from darkest to brightest. Grayscale

  • A BenQ PG2401PT, 24-inch Color Accurate Monitor Review

    - in Articles > Monitors

    BenQ PG2401PT 24-inch IPS Color-Accurate Display Review $600. A real professional-grade display doesn’t necessarily need a high pixel count or a large panel. What it should offer is an Adobe RGB color gamut and perfect color accuracy. BenQ carries 23 different monitors in its portfolio

    Packaging, Physical Layout, And Accessories display. Any monitor worthy of professional billing must have full ergonomic adjustment, and BenQ's PG2401PT satisfies that criteria. You can rotate the panel to portrait mode with an automatic image and OSD flip. You get six inches

    See more results

    OSD Setup And Calibration Of The BenQ PG2401PT Touch the fifth button twice to bring up BenQ's OSD. No matter where you leave off, the PG2401PT always starts at the top of its menu system. The Display menu contains the necessary adjustments for analog signals coming through

    Results: Brightness And Contrast measurements because we're testing the display’s ability to simultaneously maintain both low black and full white levels, plus factoring in screen uniformity. The average of the eight full-white measurements is divided by the average of the eight full

    Measurement And Calibration Methodology: How We Test , the greater the saturation until you hit 100 percent at the edge of the gamut triangle. This shows us the display’s response at a cross-section of color points. Many monitors score well when only the 100-percent saturations are measured. Hitting

    Results: Grayscale Tracking And Gamma Response The majority of monitors, especially newer models, display excellent grayscale tracking (even at stock settings). It’s important that the color of white be consistently neutral at all light levels from darkest to brightest. Grayscale

    Results: Color Gamut And Performance -lust, calibration is probably unnecessary. Now we return to the comparison group: A result of .6 Delta E is the lowest color error we’ve ever recorded from any display in our lab. All of the monitors in the group offer superb accuracy, but the PG

    Calibration With Palette Master , and screen uniformity. We installed it on our test system to give it a try. If you want to use the utility, you need an i1Pro, i1Pro 2, or an i1Display color meter. After selecting Profile from the Home screen, the first set of options lets

    Results: Viewing Angles And Uniformity to 1.98 percent. Either way, the screen looks great to our eyes. Screen Uniformity: Color To measure color uniformity, we display an 80-percent white field and measure the Delta E error of the same nine points on the screen. Then we

    Results: Pixel Response, Input Lag, And Blur Reduction long it takes to fully display a pattern after pressing the button on the generator’s remote. This testing methodology allows for accurate and repeatable results when comparing panels. Here’s a shot of our test setup. Click on the photo

  • A HP Intros Two New DreamColor Displays: HP Z27x & Z24x

    - in Articles > Displays

    and more accurate colors than ever before." The HP Z27x DreamColor Display packs three times the color accuracy over the previous generation. This display is also the first to feature HP's hostless integrated calibration engine with built

  • A ViewSonic TD2240 Next-Gen Display Senses 10-Point Touch

    - in Articles > Displays

    ViewSonic revealed on Wednesday a new 10-point multi-touch 22-inch display with an ergonomic design, the TD2240. The display features an interesting dual-hinge stand that allows it to lay completely flat like a tablet so that multiple

  • A Do It Like Tom's: Calibrating Your Monitor With CalMAN RGB

    - in Articles > Monitors

    Display Calibration With CalMAN RGB your display to those standards. Fortunately, there are parameters for video production that are the same as the ones used in games, digital photography, and other content creation systems. A majority of computer displays can come pretty close

    Direct Display Control, AutoCal, And PC Client 3 We’ve touched on the Direct Display Control and AutoCal functions of CalMAN as part of an Advanced Monitor Calibration. Let’s look at those capabilities in a little more detail. At the top-right of the screen are three tabs

    See more results

    CalMAN Products Overview: Professional We’re focusing primarily on CalMAN RGB for this article, though SpectraCal offers many products in its portfolio that not only work for computer monitors, but other display technologies as well. At Tom’s Hardware, we use CalMAN Ultimate

    CalMAN Products Overview: Home User Today's article focuses on computer monitor calibration. But SpectraCal also has a full suite of products for optimizing HDTVs. If you’d like to engage in a little do-it-yourself with your display, the price of admission isn’t nearly

    CalMAN RGB In-Depth -based picture modes. If you choose to calibrate using only the display’s OSD, you can turn off the LUT. While this may seem a bit confusing, we’ll cut through that by focusing on the $249 package. We’ll run the Standard monitor workflow, which

    CalMAN RGB, Value, Accuracy, And Ease Of Use pattern generator, profile manager, and display control features. It walks you through each step with clear, concise instructions, and then it explains exactly what’s happening and how your changes affect the image. With the power to create

    CalMAN RGB How-To: Advanced Calibration, Part 1 , gamma, and color gamut. Even if your monitor’s OSD doesn’t support all of those adjustments, CalMAN will create a look-up table to make up that shortfall. If your display can be controlled via DDC (a majority can), CalMAN accesses those

    CalMAN RGB How-To: Advanced Calibration, Part 3 our Dell UP3214Q is quite accurate out of the box, 20 minutes spent with CalMAN RGB improves it to near-perfection. This single screen is a great snapshot of display performance and the effect of your calibration. Here is a more real

  • A Best Of CES 2014: Tom's Hardware Recognizes 12 Products

    - in Articles > Storage

    Monitor/Display: Asus ROG Swift PG278Q There's a new game-changing technology in town, and it's Nvidia's G-Sync. Asus backed this technology with real hardware right at launch, and at CES the company rolled out a follow-up in its ROG Swift PG278Q. This is a 27-inch display

    Notebook: Lenovo Carbon X1 -function hardware keys on the previous version. There’s also native Ethernet and OneLink Docking, touch or non-touch displays, Windows 8.1 Pro, Intel’s Haswell-based CPUs, and longer battery life. It’s arriving later this month and starts at $1300. Read

    See more results

    Most Innovative Technology: Oculus Rift and a low-persistence OLED display, making it more advanced than the development kit already available for order. The result is a virtual reality environment that lets you move your head, lean forward, lean back, and dodge side to side

      • Next