New monitor

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Dresden

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I'm in the market for a new monitor. I've been looking at this monitor: http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/...m/LS25EMNKUY/ZA/index.idx?pagetype=prd_detail

Anyone have any experience with this particular model or know how good it is? I'm in the market for something good for gaming, widescreen, something that offers a high contrast ratio, something I can dual sync my old monitor with and something I can plug my 360 into. My current monitor uses an SVGA cable for my 360, but does this have connections for HDTV on it? I'm not familiar with what they look like, for I don't own an HDTV. If so, does that mean I would be able to stop using the SVGA cable and use regular HDTV connections for my Xbox?
 
Davros said:
It will do as it is a hdtv
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Indeed. Most important, I haven't owned a Samsung monitor since the old Syncmasters. How are the new models in terms of general computer usage, to gaming? I currently use a Sony LCD, and I think the image is crisp, but it doesn't look like Sony is in the monitor market anymore. At least not that I know of. How would this stack up next to an older Sony LCD?
 
Yes, that page says it has an HDMI connector.
They look a bit like a USB connection, there should be one on the 360
180px-HDMI.socket.png


Specs .pdf shows the IO panel
http://www.samsung.com/us/system/co...25emnkuyza/MON-P2370P2570HDDSHT-May09T_HR.pdf
 
I'd like to do a dual monitor setup, for gaming purposes, but I've heard from friends it's a frame rate killer. Is there any truth to that? Also, regarding HDMI, what's the difference between playing my 360 in HDMI and DVI-D? My current setup uses an SVGA cable and whenever I play my 360, I have to resort to what I believe is DVI-D on my monitor. Is there a quality difference between the two settings?
 
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Dual monitor did have some problems in XP, but even there I don't think it's as much of an issue anymore. Dual monitor has virtually no performance impact that I've seen in Vista/Win7. One of the reasons I instantly fell in love with Vista compared to XP.

Regards,
SB
 
I love Samsung monitors, I'm running a SyncMaster 2220wm now.

If you're getting a new monitor, make sure it has a displayport input on it...trust me. ;)
 
Yea the 1080p is stretched a bit. But it sure looks nice playing games and doing other things and at the price you can't really go wrong at all. If I had the money i'd get another 2 and a 5870 and enjoy
 
I'm in need of a new monitor also, my 19" Dell from 2004 really doesn't cut it anymore. It's blurry as hell due to slow pixel updates, and it burns in like a sonofabitch...(!) Also: has bad contrast (CCFL backlight might be dimming after so many years), poor viewing angles.

What I'd like is something that does not have a TN panel and is 24" 1920*1200 (preferably not 1080, as I like the extra screen estate vertically). LED backlight and displaychannel input would be ideal of course, however both of those are very new inventions so I don't know of any such monitors except Apple's products, and they are just crrrraaazyyy expensive. :p

However, I could also settle for something TN that is of good quality otherwise and INEXPENSIVE just as an interim monitor until I can find something more suitable, maybe let LED tech mature some more and so on...

Any suggestions? :)
 
@Grall
Dell U2410 too pricey?

I heard of batch control issues in Singapore, but if you can test the panel out then it's no biggie.
 
Grall said:
I'm in need of a new monitor also, my 19" Dell from 2004 really doesn't cut it anymore. It's blurry as hell due to slow pixel updates, and it burns in like a sonofabitch...(!) Also: has bad contrast (CCFL backlight might be dimming after so many years), poor viewing angles.

What I'd like is something that does not have a TN panel and is 24" 1920*1200 (preferably not 1080, as I like the extra screen estate vertically). LED backlight and displaychannel input would be ideal of course, however both of those are very new inventions so I don't know of any such monitors except Apple's products, and they are just crrrraaazyyy expensive. :p

However, I could also settle for something TN that is of good quality otherwise and INEXPENSIVE just as an interim monitor until I can find something more suitable, maybe let LED tech mature some more and so on...

Any suggestions? :)
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Pretty much anything from Samsung will do. Now I'm no IQ junkie so amybe my opinion isnt worth much but I think the image of my 226cw is good, the samsung I bought for my friend also looks good and I orderd a 24'' samsung for my little brother. The 22'' models are really cheap and even the 24'' one is only 220 euro's so for that kind of money you can hardly go wrong I think.

I suppose I really depends on what you do. If you REALLY need good colors money wont be the issue and other than that, you have to be a IQ junkie to really see the difference in IQ between a average TN panel and a screen costing you atleast twice as much with all the better tech. If you just do the normal pc stuff, some gaming, watching pics & sometimes movies TN is just fine by me.
 
You could also just buy cheap and then upgrade when the new tech drops in price in like a year or two and use the monitor you bought now as a second or even third monitor
 
If you want non-TN and 19x12 panel, you don't have much options, unfortunately (or hopefully :)).


HP LP2475W:
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/hp_lp2475w.htm
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/382087-382087-64283-72270-3884471-3648442.html
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824176104

Hazro HZ24W:
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/hazro_hz24w.htm

Dell U2410:
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/...7&cs=19&c=us&l=en&dgc=SS&cid=27530&lid=627063
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/dell_u2410.htm
http://flatpanels.dk/test.php?subaction=showfull&id=1253521464

NEC MultiSync LCD2490WUXi:
http://www.necdisplay.com/Products/Product/?Product=a46240bd-a846-4de7-b644-bd7f0b7e6ece
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/nec_2490wuxi.htm


HP and Dell are best-buy models in that segment, while NEC is one of the best, if not the best 24" screen out there, excluding very very expensive Eizo CG line. :)


Dell and HP are wide gamut monitors. Here's more info on that:
http://lcdresource.com/widegamut.php
http://www.hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1033819378&postcount=16 (also review of LCD2490WUXi)

The very informative LCD thread over at AT is a good place for more help if you need it.

Also, here is a list of most, if not all IPS monitors in the wild:
http://www.pchardwarehelp.com/guides/s-ips-lcd-list.php


Hope this helps. ;)
 
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I wish Dell's only 24" LED monitor wasn't both a TN panel AND a ultra crappy 1920x1080 res. /sigh. Would have bought it in a heartbeat even if it was twice the price if it had anything but a TN panel and a proper 1920x1200 res.

And and the ability to rotate the panel into portrait view. Oh and included a display port also.

Regards,
SB
 
Thanks a lot ofr the replies guys. It's certainly been helpful!

Guess I won't be buying the Dell, it's really way too expensive compared to what I can afford atm. :( It does look good tho, specs and feature-wise except it isn't LED-based. But that would probably just make it even more expensive, so maybe that is a good thing.

What kind of panels do TVs use? They're super cheap these days, I can get a 50" HDTV with THX certification and other bells and whistles that is only ~2x the price of that Dell...

I'm really not too good at this kind of stuff, meh.
 
Thanks, Fox.

What's the quality ranking of panel types? If we define TN as rock bottom, where do S-PVA and IPS type panels end up?
 
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