Recent content by Roger

Yep, like I said before, anyone buying this monitor and for some reason expecting VA/IPS viewing angles is going to be disappointed. They are no better than your average TN panel, ie pretty poor vertically and narrow enough that the screen isn't uniform from top to bottom when sitting directly...

Horizontal viewing angles are decent for a TN indeed but the vertical ones are still pretty poor. The bottom half of the panel still appears brighter, the colors noticeably change when you move your head up and down a bit etc. It's a good monitor from what I saw but don't go buy it expecting...

I wouldn't say laptop LCDs are more advanced. They do have higher resolution but that's about it. In my opinion, laptop LCDs are generally far worse than desktop LCDs when it comes to color reproduction, contrast, viewing angles and response time.

There is no "ideal" response time. Obviously the lower the better. Seeing as most of the time manufacturers use strange methods to measure the response time, or just flat out lie about it, the actual numbers don't mean much. If you don't see ghosting that bothers you, that's all that matters I'd...

All TN LCDs have narrow viewing angles, 6-bit color and relatively poor contrast ratio so that's what you get "by default" when choosing a monitor with such panel. The 173P+ on the other hand is one of few 17" LCDs that aren't TN. It uses Samsung's PVA panel with superior picture quality. Those...

It's probably slightly faster than the 173P+ seeing as it's a TN panel but it has narrow viewing angles, 6-bit color and worse contrast ratio than the 173P+.

Why is it impossible? Overdrive doesn't affect black-to-white transitions so the response time for it has stayed the same as before. Yes, grey-to-grey response times are much more important but don't trust the specs too much.

I wouldn't rely too much on pcworld reviews. Not saying they are lying or anything but their reviews have always been kind of weird. I don't know if they even calibrate monitors before reviewing them. I don't own the 193P+ but I find it hard to believe it's so much worse than the 193P which...

I thought Dynamic Focus was something different. It is applied to "flat" CRTs to improve focus in corners so that the entire screen is more evenly focused. I don't think it means the monitor automatically adjusts itself overtime. Could be wrong though.

The ghosting test on anandtech doesn't refer to what people usually think of when they say a monitor "ghosts" (motion blur). Instead, it refers to streaking/ghosting as interference which is what "ghosting" really is. Don't know about the "Black level adjustment" though. I hope they don't...

Before I got rid of my CRT I used it in dual monitor mode with a Samsung 193P LCD. There was no lag compared to the CRT at all. Don't know about the 2405FPW though. If you look at the pictures that gustep12 posted, the lag is obvious compared to the 243T. Perhaps it's not a problem with the...

No one can give you a definite answer to that. It may be faster at some transitions and slower at others. Usually LCDs with overdrive have nearly identical response time for all transitions (which should be around 16-20ms for a 8ms GtG LCD). LCDs without overdrive may have a response time of...

I haven't compared those two monitors so I can't say which performs better but there is something strange about the P19-2. All reviews except one (Behardware) say the Fujitsu is just as fast if not faster than the Viewsonic. They (Behardware) say it's "catastrophic" for games and "almost slower...

Even though that is true, it doesn't mean an 8ms grey-to-grey display is slower than an 8ms (rise+fall or black-white-black) display. The grey-to-grey spec is only found on monitors that use overdrive technology which means that response time is pretty much the same for all color transitions...

Yes it is.