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Whoopee!! I've been waiting and waiting for this! I'd rather buy from Costco than Dell. Just put my order in, too. Mofongo

No. The TN technology is still the same as the 226BW. Just the backlight changed.

According to that article, the real difference is that it has an extended color gamut. Because Samsung cannot buy extended gamut panels from another manufacturer (yet), you will by default be getting an 'S' panel (for now). Mofongo

Actually, Westinghouse owns part of Chi Mei. This is in fact why they decided to start selling LCD products under the Westinghouse name...they just happened to own an LCD panel manufacturer, so why not? :) So they tend to use Chi Mei panels as the default for all of their LCD products. Not...

I was thinking of getting my wife a 22" widescreen to replace her 17" CRT (which I am currently using since my 19" CRT blew up while I wait for a Dell 2407WFP-HC :). Costco has Sceptre and X2Gens quite cheap (around $250 give or take) with free shipping (mail-order only). Then I noticed an...

Jim Robbins did a very in-depth comparison between the BenQ, Dell, and LG 24" monitors. His conclusion is that they are all pretty good, but which one is best for your depends on the application. Mofongo

I was wondering this as well, since Samsung Semiconductor's website does not admit to making a wide gamut 24" SPVA panel. Although this would not be the first time that their website has been incomplete, they are usually pretty thorough about posting their newer panels. They have been listing...

How do you know it will be PVA? Do you have an online source you can link to for us? Thanks, Mofongo P.S. The only manufacturer that I can find that lists a 24" non-TN panel with 92% gamut is AUO. It is an AMVA panel. But manufacturers' product literature rarely lists every panel...

Yeah! I would really like to see some good quality pictures, especially side-by-side with competing monitors. Mofongo

It's all about price point. Manufacturers do not want to (cannot?) sell a non-TN monitor for under $500. Given the relatively cutthroat competition in the display market (i.e. little chance of cabals fixing prices) this is probably because it costs a certain amount of money to make a non-TN...

Only TN panels are not 8 bit anymore. Current PVA, MVA, and IPS panels are all capable of 8 bit, which is to say that each pixel is capable of 256 unique states. Mofongo

I am certainly with you that the whole panel lottery thing stinks...after all, what is the point in buying the Samsung if it has the same panel as all the cheaper brands? (Unless Samsung does a better job at calibration...which it does not sound like they do). But the LG has the "A" panel...

Hmm...the mosquito noise could be due to a variety of things. The first is that it could really be in the movie itself. A good test for this would be to get a new, animated movie (like Shrek 2 or Cars) and watch it. Animated movies, since they are not transferred from film to digital, tend...

Have you looked at the 24" Gateway? To me, the Gateway looks incredibly sparkly/grainy...like there's tiny crystals embedded in the screen or something. This would drive me nuts. So I am curious if the effect you are talking about is something like that? On the other hand, my wife has a...

From the Costco website: "Merchandise: We guarantee your satisfaction on every product we sell with a full refund. Exceptions: Televisions, projectors, computers, cameras, camcorders, iPOD / MP3 players and cellular phones must be returned within 90 days of purchase for a refund." Monitors...

Yes, the input lag is caused by the frame buffer inside the monitor and depends on the monitor manufacturer, not the specific LCD panel. The monitor buffers a certain number of frames and uses that time to optimize the colors, contrast, etc of the images before displaying them. This introduces...

Yikes! I assume you will call NEC about this. Can you ask them what their dead pixel policy is? I really want the NEC, but Costco has the Dell 2407 for $610 plus shipping, and you can simply take it to any Costco warehouse for return for any reason at any time (not just for 30 days). This...

Does anybody know which LCD panel is used in this monitor? Naively, one would expect the LG-Philips LM240WU1 S-IPS panel (like this site does) but the specs don't seem to match. Furthermore, it usually seems like the S-IPS panels tend to appear in the more expensive displays (IPS is more...

Any idea what NEC's dead/stuck pixel policy is? I am debating between this display and the LG L246WP. The NEC sounds like it is superior, but with the LG, I can get it from Best Buy and take it back if it has any stuck pixels at all. NewEgg, however, will not let me exchange the NEC...

According to the LG website, they include a DVI to HDMI adapter. If so, what's the big deal? Just use your existing DVI cable. Mofongo

This whole "not being made anymore" thing sounds incredibly fishy to me. Samsung-Semiconductor just started making the 220M1 a couple of months ago, and as far as I know, it has never appeared in any other monitor. It would seem incredibly silly to stop producing it so quickly. It's not...

Correct. Both the 20" and the 22" have the same number of pixels. This means that the size of the pixels is larger on the 22" than the 20". The "size" of pixels is traditionally measured as the dot pitch (this dates back to the CRT days) which is defined as the distance between the centers of...

If you believe some of the review/comparisons out there (I cannot find the link right now, but it was posted several weeks ago on this thread), the panel that is in nearly all 22" widescreen monitors on the market today is actually made by AUO (including the Samsung 225BW, interestingly enough...

The think to remember is that pretty much every 22" monitor out there except the 226BW (but, interestingly enough, including the 225BW) has the same TN LCD panel made by AUO which is not that great in my opinion. The backlighting is uneven, and the viewing angles not very good (at least to me)...

If you return it to CC, you will pay a 15% restocking fee (which would also be greater than the $30 you were hoping to save from the rebate). Maybe if they lower the price again during the next 30 days you could convince them to refund you the difference...does CC do this? I'm pretty sure...

ZipZoomFly just listed the 226BW for $360 after $30 rebate with free shipping, although they do not have it in stock yet. You could potentially save on sales tax over CC, although CC might still be cheaper with a 10% off coupon). Also NCIX has it in stock, but is charging $487 Canadian for...

How does a GPU "not support 92% color gamut"? Color gamut is completely independent of anything that comes out of the graphics card. Please explain. Mofongo

Jimmy, Thank you so much for taking the time to respond to us here. Amidst the rumor mills that are online forums, it is great to have authoritative answers occasionally. :) Would you know if the the FP241WZ will use the A-MVA panel on AUO's website or the same P-MVA panel that is in the...

Geez...I thought I'd finally found some actual facts instead of conjecture. I had seen the article that you mention, but had hoped that the behardware one was better informed. Just to add more fuel to the speculative fire, there is also this article (translated from Chinese) that states that...

I just stumbled across this article on the FP241WZ. Apparently, it uses a PVA panel (presumably made by Samsung, since PVA is exclusive to them) whereas the FP241W uses an AUO MVA panel. Huh. It also does not use true BFI (black-frame-insertion) as the BenQ website advertises, but rather a...

It is the Samsung LTM220M1 WSXGA+ TN panel (this is confirmed by the picture of the service menu of the Chinese review site linked to a few pages ago). Specs are availible here. Note that the quoted response time is black-to-black and the contrast static. What I am curious about is the...

Cool. I guess that models ending in "C" will have the "super CCFL". That's good to know. Yet another reason to wait to buy my new LCD monitor. :) Mofongo

Hi everyone. When I first noticed on Samsung Semiconductor's LCD panel website that they were coming out with a new 22-inch widescreen TN panel that had 92% color saturation, I thought that this was a misprint. The model in question is the LTM220M2. Most LCDs have 72% color saturation...

Thanks everyone for finding (and translating) all the panel info. So since it looks like the FP241WZ has a different panel, it should offer the additional advantage of better colors. I was a bit uncertain about the whole PerfectMotion thing (especially paying extra for it) but now I definitely...

Oh, yes. Thanks for pointing that out! If I go to AUO's website, they claim that their current 24" panel is A-MVA not P-MVA (as reported in this TFT central article). A-MVA offers some improvements to P-MVA, especially in regards to color. Any clue if it is really an A-MVA panel, or is in an...

I have been trying to find a store that carries any model display that has the Samsung 24" PVA panel that is in the BenQ FP241W. I finally found the Gateway 24" on display at Best Buy today. The unit they had on display had this weird "sparkly" quality to it. It's like there were sparkly...

That is the $64 question (actually, it's the $20+tax question since that's the current price difference between the two). I am interested in both monitors, too, but so far there is little direct comparison. The backlight photo I saw of the 226BW was very impressive...virtually no backlight...

Huh...looks like I can't set the exposure time on my Canon Elph, either. Dang. ISO just determines the sensitivity of the light detector in the camera (analogous to the ISO rating of film). Your picture was taken at 200 ISO, according to the EXIF header, which is a reasonable setting for dark...

Thanks for the pics! Hey, is there a way on your camera to set the exposure time to exactly 0.25 seconds? According to the EXIF header, yours is 0.71 sec which is very long and more likely to show some sort of bleed (you can always show backlight bleed by making the exposure time long enough)...

??!! This is a "little known fact" because it's not true. The LG L226WT has the LG-Philips LCD LM220WE1 panel and the Samsung 225BW has the Samsung Semiconductor LTM220M1. I suppose it's possible that they may occasionally buy one another's panels for some of their models (although I do not...