It's amazing how few people still don't comprehend input lag. Yikes.
Thanks for the comments, everybody else - I think I'll just score the Dell 2408, and find some space on my desk to keep my iiyama 19" DiamondTron CRT (yum) for gaming.
The iiyama E2403 doesn't swivel. The B2403 does not appear to have acceptable input lag. All the other panels I've seen either have good input lag but no swivel capability, or the other way around (or both suck!)
Can anybody suggest a monitor with a response time comparable to the E2403, but...
I don't have experience with any of those turntables, but you might seriously consider a used Technics 1200. They have excellent resale value and are believed (by some) to have much better speed accuracy than low-end belt drives. They run $200-400 used IIRC. Or, get the Audio Technica AT-PL120...
If you stand far enough away from any TV, it will have more resolution than the eye can perceive. Everything after that is going to be color fidelity (especially off-axis), response time, and contrast ratio. Displays have a very, VERY long way to go in those fields before being "perfect".
There have been a lot of threads on this if you search for it. I noticed it as soon as I played Quake 3 with it back in March. Somebody posted a little flash app that lets you easily determine the lag relative to a cloned CRT display. I measured it to be in the 30-60ms range.
I haven't tried...
I think the exact ghosting phenomenon is considerably different between the panel types, which acts orthogonally to the actual response time.
When I pan something on my 2405 - ie, a dark object moves around across a brighter background - the ghosting image is brighter than the two original...
I have something very similar which I always figured was driver related, but I don't think it can be called tearing. On very large movie window sizes (it doesn't need to be full screen) there are individual lines of the image that are offset by as much as 20 pixels. It's not a deinterlace issue...
FWIW, I notice the ghosting more of a loss of detail more than an actual "ghost" on the screen - like the objects themselves get smeared, and the entire image can get smeared if it's all roughly the same contrast, but there's no ghost behind them. This is consistent (or maybe placebo'd upon) the...
I ran Jensen's flash prog on my system - 2405 as primary monitor, CRT as 2nd monitor, full acceleration, Gf4 4200 card, WXP. I snapped some rapid-fire pics on my camera (1/160 shutter speed, ISO 200) - the extremely low shutter speed let me see the relationship between the scanline position and...
This lag might be related to the display lag issue mentioned in the big thread, although that hasn't been confirmed yet. It would explain a lot of things if it did though.
If so though, it would place firm bounds on the scope of the lag (16-32ms).