Future Affordable 24" all TN?

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AndyZhang

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Can anybody speculate on this based on prior knowledge (or insider info)?

It looks like many well-priced 24" models have been discontinued and replaced by TN models. Will it be the case that one can't pay <$400 for a non-TN in the near future (1-2 years)? Or will the prices fall across the board for all 24" monitors, such that TN will be even cheaper?
 
TN will continue to spread as long as people keep buying it. You have to spend more than $400 to get a good 24 inch. that is not new. The problem is people will always go with the cheaper pannels as long as they do not know what the dirrerence is.

If you are wanting a 24" S-IPS monitor for $400, I'd say go look on eBay.

Best of luck

Dave
 
no one can answwer your question. Time will tell.

The only reason to not get a quality TN panel is for photo/video editing
 
Bah, the TN affliction.

There's a clear difference between TN and IPS/VA, video/photo editing aside. Bad viewing angles and atrocious colors. To get a better TN, I'd end up spending >$400 anyway, and at that point, why would I get a TN if I can get a VA for ~$500?

Still praying my Soyo 24" is an MVA by chance. We'll see when it arrives, I suppose. My current (albeit old) MVA beats the hell out of my parents' TN.
 
Alot of consumers out there do not know what TN, S-PVA. IPS type panels etc are. Even though you may explain it to them, their not gonna pay the extra $ to buy an IPS lcd over a TN. What they would say is: "It's good enough and it works. Main thing I can see what's on there" They are not as anal as people who need a better quality LCD for photo editing/graphics use. Since a majority of the people out there aren't that anal on the LCDs, they would rather buy the cheaper model if the sizes are the same. That's where the market is leaning towards. Most people out there will consider a 24" S-PVA lcd very expensive at $600+ dollars. Some will actually say: "Sheesh... I can buy a computer for that much already!" I see customers buying alot of the 22" nowdays because they are in the $200-$300 range. They feel this is more affordable to be spending on an LCD monitor.
 
Hardware, you're absolutely right, and I agree with you 100%. I guess the question is (sadly enough), will they find even cheaper methods to produce TN anytime soon, causing the prices to drop further? Per the economies of scale, TN SHOULD be cheaper to produce. If those prices drop, I'm optimistic that we'll see a drop in VA/IPS prices. I'd just be really pissed if the selection of decent monitors continues to get WORSE as all models are converted to TN. Most people don't care, but a lot of them can tell the difference, photo-editing or not. It's just not a difference worth a 100% markup to them. I'm not into photo-editing in any way whatsoever, and TN still bugs the hell out of me. Then again, I guess I was spoiled by an MVA for 7 years, so bad colors/viewing angles kill me, whereas somewhat slow response times are something I've gotten used to over the years. I imagine the average consumer that wasn't an early LCD adopter like me probably is more sensitive to slower response times than to inaccurate colors, which may explain the fact that they're fine with TN.
 
It would be good to at least still carry non TN type panels, even though a majoirty of the people buy the cheaper TN panels. If they will completely do away with IPS, S-PVA, MVA lcds then, they better make TN panels better because that will be unfair for the customers who do require a panel that's better than a TN.
 
AndyZhang said:
Bah, the TN affliction.

There's a clear difference between TN and IPS/VA, video/photo editing aside. Bad viewing angles and atrocious colors. To get a better TN, I'd end up spending >$400 anyway, and at that point, why would I get a TN if I can get a VA for ~$500?

Still praying my Soyo 24" is an MVA by chance. We'll see when it arrives, I suppose. My current (albeit old) MVA beats the hell out of my parents' TN.
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I got the last Soyo 24" that the office max i went to had. I can definately tell the difference between it and my older acer 24".
 
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