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Post Date: 2008-08-24
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    Posted: 24 Aug 2008 at 2:52pm
samsung first, lg next..and westinghouse dead last....i have a 19 inch syncmaster 930b from samsung..its great have had for yrs..no problems..nice color..im satisfied..and when the time comes i have found the samsung 245T that has been top rated by maximum pc and will be looking to buy that one..when the time comes of courseWink
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I'm buying the 22" LG Widescreen, it's beautiful in person and well I'm kinda a Sony (Big TV) and LG (little TV) kinda guy.
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I don't know about LCD but in plasma TVs LG sucks.

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A good source of info on what makes diff LCD perform better than others can be found in the latest copy of maximum pc where they review a buncha monitors and tell you how to decide what to buy based upon the important stats and data of the product. The cover has a big windows thingie with a buncha balls floating around and windows symbol inside. There's also a two-page spread for DSO! Big%20smile
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In a nutshell or well... the aspects you'd find in a monitor, as though you were looking at a GPU.  Is response time and contrast ratio (since it's color clarity the higher the more vibrant the colors will be).  And overall most really good monitors have a contrast of 3000-4000:1 ratio.

Samsung on the other hand.  Good grief they go as high as 20,000:1 (You can find it in DSO's selection, but it's a 24" though.)  So you already covered the 2 ms aspect.  Samsung wins for the contrast ratio ahaha.

Good you can check it out.  -- Actually wait a minute....

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824001274

Well lookie here they have a 20,000:1 contrast ratio for a 19" monitor ahaha (at 2 ms of course).  Same pricing too (well aside from the shipping cost).  (But not exactly gonna be able to check it out.  Unless you can go to the Samsung website do a store locator and find this one lol)

It's a tilt type though (no height adjustment.)  From the reviews I read of the 24" version of this type of monitor (looks exactly the same) the only gripe about this type supposedly it tilts easily.


Edited by Axel Daemon - 26 Aug 2008 at 3:50am
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Posts: 36758 		  Quote DST4ME Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 26 Aug 2008 at 3:59am
lot of companies exaggerate their contrast. , Samsung is one of the biggest ones.

For a good monitor you have to look at a few things,response time, resolution, processor, Display Colors, colour depth and things like that, the BS reported contrast should be last thing on the list.

show me a monitor that has everything above higher then a samsung with a supposed higher contrast, and I will show you a monitor that will eat that samsung.

Edited by DST4ME - 26 Aug 2008 at 4:10am

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Posts: 623 		  Quote Axel Daemon Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 26 Aug 2008 at 4:26am
I see I see.  Well for Display Colors.  Each and every monitor I scoped out all practically had the same number (like it was a regulation lol) I removed that out of my concern already lol.

Errr what's the definition of a processor in monitor terms?

Then again as they say check reviews, it's what they're around for lol.




Edited by Axel Daemon - 26 Aug 2008 at 4:52am
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what ever processor they have that processes the signals. Over all you will find lot of things are the same, but it comes down to quality. I went thru 5 plasmas before I chose my monitor, between, samsung, lg,philips and pioneer, pioneer ellete pro had the best picture, samsung couldn't touch it, but thats for like 50" inch monitors.

reviews are great too.


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