w2207 of 226bw ???

[HiCZoK]

GAMING and MOVIES (which I am watching from bed)

Which is better???
also I do not care about A C S sammy lottery.

need fast resopnse

[xsoulbrothax]

The HP's glossy screen should help with movie-watching IIRC, but you'd have to be careful with how the lighting is set up in your room.

Messing around with a 226BW in the exact same way (watching movies from bed), I definitely had no complaints about it, though the non-height-adjustable stand sucked balls - I ended up propping the monitor up on top of books to get it higher up. It also takes some calibration, depending on the panel you get.

edit: and it's just about perfect for gaming. only bad thing was that out of the box, shadows in games were extremely dark (shadow crush?), so in shadows in BF2142 or Dark Messiah everything sort of became black and impossible to see. That was able to be calibrated out just using the monitor's settings, though.

[HiCZoK]

The HP's glossy screen should help with movie-watching IIRC, but you'd have to be careful with how the lighting is set up in your room.

Messing around with a 226BW in the exact same way (watching movies from bed), I definitely had no complaints about it, though the non-height-adjustable stand sucked balls - I ended up propping the monitor up on top of books to get it higher up. It also takes some calibration, depending on the panel you get.

edit: and it's just about perfect for gaming. only bad thing was that out of the box, shadows in games were extremely dark (shadow crush?), so in shadows in BF2142 or Dark Messiah everything sort of became black and impossible to see. That was able to be calibrated out just using the monitor's settings, though.

thanx .I am going to buy 226bw now :) Advice me some tool to have 1:1 in some older games like neverhood or icewinddale2 (Which I do not want to be streched)
ps.Can you post what setting you calibrated throught monitor? I do not want to buy any stupid calibrator

[THRESHIN]

i'm not aware of any tool that allows you to change the aspect ratio, but if you have a nvidia video card and use the DVI connection you can do it right in the driver. after you get it hooked up an option will appear to change the scaling.

you can either let the monitor stretch the image, let the video card stretch the image (i don't notice any difference between the two), keep the aspect ratio but stretch to fit the screen (you get the proper 4:3 ratio and black bars along the sides, but it fills your screen probably going outside the native res.) or you can keep the resolution ratio without any stretching at all. i find the last one particularly useful. for example, i can play system shock 2 at 1280x1024 on a 1680x1050 monitor and it will keep the native resolution with the black bars on the sides and very small black bars on the top and bottom.

hope that helps you out a bit;) also, if you're outside the native resolution jack the sharpness up. turn it back down when you go back to the native resolution as it will throw the focus out.

[rsgunter]

226cw is out. Saw one at BB yesterday. Check those out.

No panel lottery and more colour(supposedly). I can't verify how good it looks because they had it powered off.