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Deozaan:
Wow, I was just looking at monitors. My 19" (4:3) ViewSonic just died on me recently and I was just comparing a bunch of the "bargain-basement monitors that cost $160 and have the cheapest TN panels in them."
Actually I don't know what a TN panel is (or at least I didn't until I clicked a few links in this thread today), but I'm guessing all the ones I'm looking at use them. How would you know, anyway? Nothing I see in the specifications mentions TN, *VS or *-IPS.
Innuendo:
How would you know, anyway? Nothing I see in the specifications mentions TN, *VS or *-IPS.-Deozaan (June 13, 2010, 09:35 PM)
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Usually you have to go to the manufacturer's web sites and dig in deep to find the type panel used. If I seem to recall correctly, you can get a pretty good gauge of the type panel used by looking at the viewing angle bullet point in the specs. If it's listed as 170 degrees, chances are high it's a TN panel.
Margins are so thin on the smaller sized panels I don't think any panel under 22" is anything other than a TN panel anymore. NEC made a 20" IPS panel LCD monitor a few years ago that many consider to be the holy grail of image quality at the time, but that model has long been discontinued.
nudone:
sometimes things do go right (with computers). very glad to hear that you got a good piece of hardware, Innuendo.
Innuendo:
sometimes things do go right (with computers). very glad to hear that you got a good piece of hardware, Innuendo.-nudone (June 14, 2010, 04:35 AM)
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Thanks for that, nudone. The monitor is always component I always have the most anxiety about when the time to replace comes. I'm still keeping a watchful eye as I hear sometimes dead/stuck pixels will develop in the first days/weeks of ownership.
tomos:
sometimes things do go right (with computers). very glad to hear that you got a good piece of hardware, Innuendo.-nudone (June 14, 2010, 04:35 AM)
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Thanks for that, nudone. The monitor is always component I always have the most anxiety about when the time to replace comes. I'm still keeping a watchful eye as I hear sometimes dead/stuck pixels will develop in the first days/weeks of ownership.
-Innuendo (June 14, 2010, 09:24 PM)
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came across this thread when searching for something else:
enjoyed re-reading your longer post above Innuendo about changing monitors -
and wondering what you're using today, six and a half years on :D
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