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Re: LCD Monitors for Video Editing, DVD Watching?
Recommending brands is a crapshoot. Different brands switch panel sources in mid-stride sometimes.
What you want to try to find out is what type of panel any given monitor has. There are a number of technologies, but you want either S-PVA or S-IPS panels at this point.
The S-PVA panels take the contrast crown, the S-IPS tend to be very good for office apps and photo color accuracy, according to everything I've read.
I have S-IPS panels and they're pretty good, but they tint dark areas purple when viewed from the sides or below a bit. Since I never view them from anything but head-on, it's not an issue for me.
S-PVA however suffers from washed-out images from the side and tone shifting in the colors (I haven't really seen how that looks, but someone wrote that S-PVA colors can actually shift around and vary from eye to eye as you move your head in front of the monitor) so it's mostly a question of picking your poison... I went with S-IPS and the purple tinting isn't really a problem for me.
How one experiences the panels is also a personal thing - some find one type less appealing, another person may feeel the opposite is true.
Samsung panels are usually S-PVA, unless you go fishing in the really cheap end at which point you may wind up with something less good.
The 20 inch widescreen models usually are 1680x1050 panels. That's not a bad resolution, but it's not a huge step up from the 1280x1024 you can get on any cheap 19-incher. if the money is there you might want to look at the 24 inchers. There you'll get 1920x1200 and thus a panel capable of full HD. Price does go up a bit, though.
Multi-monitors is a good way to go if you want lots of pixels. I myself decided to buy three HP 20-inch square monitors. It's not nearly as good for video viewing than a single 24 incher, and for the money I could almost have gotten a 30 inch widescreen - but I wanted the unique advantages of having three separate screens.
For instance, my leftmost screen is pivoted so it's 1200 x 1600 - absolutely fantastic for surfing or document work. The other two are in portrait mode and at 1600x1200 - great for video viewing or general-purpose computing. I frequently find myself having one screen playing video in full screen while I have the browser open to the left and some other stuff in the center...
But as I said, find out what panel type the monitors you look at have. If it's not either S-PVA or S-IPS, move on.
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Last edited by Kimmo Jaskari : 03-16-2007 at 01:04 PM.
Reason: Clarified stuff about panel types
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