Four Wide Screen 19" Monitors Compared

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Color Fidelity, Contrast, Brightness, Color Gamut, Spatial Uniformity

Color Fidelity

Tested with the calibrator, the Benq monitor showed very good color fidelity.

Contrast And Brightness

The display is a little out of its depth with the darkest colors, but no more than its current competitors. On the other hand, the display's default adjustments are good. The monitor I was sent was set a little warm, but not inordinately so.

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The contrast was excellent, thanks to a very deep black level. The brightness works against the unit's multimedia pretensions, since it's clearly a little too high for office applications. You can always lower it, of course, but the color rendering will suffer.

Color Gamut

The display's color gamut is quite good, even a little better than the standard.

Benoit Dupont
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  • V3NOM
    from reading thigns on tomshardware on my 17" CRT i had for years and years to buying my first LCD a couple of months ago :S how embawwassing... anyway it's amazing. the better quality and viewable space on my 19" widescreen is just unbelievable compared to the often blurry writing on CRT's. my dad still uses a 17" CRT and whenever i rarely go over to his computer it's really plain at the difference between them. WIDESCREEN LCD FTW!!!
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