The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful: 17" LCDs Reviewed

Accurate, But Not Beyond

The move from a response time of 16 ms to 12 ms wasn't painless. After calibration, the profile we got is a bit chaotic:

While 85% of the colors were very faithfully rendered, the darkest 5% weren't. You can see clearly that the 1730S and the 1720B aren't in the same league here.

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If the luminance is right, neither too high nor low, the black level is abnormally high, which has a strong negative impact on contrast.

Since the contrast is very stable, theoretically you might be able play with the brightness a little to get a better level of black. But the result had too much of a negative effect, leaving very little room to work in with this adjustment.