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Interesting. Let us know when they are actually at the store. I notice bestbuy.com does not list them yet. Did they happen to mention a price?
That price is about $75 more than the 22 Viewsonic, is it a much better monitor? I like the fact it doesnt have speakers. It looks really sharp.
Why would it have a 4:3 aspect ratio resolution? This is a 16:10 monitor.I would be interested in this monitor if it had a native resolution of 1600x1200.
do you guys think it'll be possible to use the best buy reward coupon 12% off on this lcd? the coupon expires 2/19/07 so hopefully they'll have them in stock before then.
While information is limited at this stage, LG have shown their new 22" offering off in Asia, offering a massive 3000:1 contrast ratio as well as a nice new design. The contrast ratio is of course only due to the use of Digital Fine Contrast (DFC), but is still impressive if it can achieve anywhere near this kind of variation in practice. The L226WT uses LG.Philips new 22" TN Film panel (LM220WE1) offering a 5ms response time, 300 cd/m2 brightness, 16.7 million colour palette and 160/160 viewing angles.
I'm highly skeptical of this monitor. Both LG and Samsung use this "magic color" crap, to artificially increase the contrast but make it look like garbage. There's no way this monitor has an actual contrast of 3000:1, my guess would be 600:1 normal, 3000:1 dynamic (magic color.)
I had a samsung 931bf with supposedly a "2000:1" contrast ratio, and it looked absolutely horrible. All magic color does is DECREASE the color from 16.2 million to probably 500,000. It "rounds" each color up or down to the next closest color, in ordor to increase the contrast.
If you're still confused think of it this way... Let's say a picture has two different hues of blue/green. One is slightly more blue, one is slightly more green.
What magic color (or whatever they're calling it now) does is round the blue-ish blue/green to completely blue like in this
and round the greenish blue/green to an extreme green like this
What does this translate into?
It looks absolutely disgusting for anything except cartoons.
And it's STILL A TN PANEL. There's no way you're going to get actual good performance out of anything lower than a pva, it's physically impossible. The only advantage of the TN panel is its response time. Don't fall for these gimmicks like I did.
Whenever LG boasts about contrast that seems to good to be true, that's because it is. Their contrasts are reported with their dynamic ranged, so in one random scene in some random test in their lab the monitor pulled off 3000:1. Will your monitor be 3000:1 for all of your content? 99.99% of the time I doubt it would.
Actually, the way they measure it is simple: they don't do it in real time. They take a full white frame (where the auto brightness would be at full blast), measure it, then they take a full black frame (where the auto light would be at its dimmest), then measure that. Thats how they get the 2000:1+ numbers. This is called on/off contrast and says nothing about the real contrast of the panel.
IMO, if its not real time, it is NOT contrast. You need to have black and white on the screen at the same time and measure those. I think thats how ANSI contrast is measured.
One of the huge drawbacks of this auto backlight adjustment thing is that you can notice the hardware changing the light from bright to dim... its annoying, if you ask me.
Lets hope the actual contrast of this panel is at least half of the 3000:1 on/off spec.
I stopped off at a Best Buy (Cincinnati area) on my way home from work today, and they had this monitor on display. It didn't even have the regular product info tags on the shelf, just a handwritten tag with the model # and price of $399.99.
And what did it look like? Please tell me you actually went up and gave it careful observation, and didn't just conveniantly walk past it blowing it off. p )
Alright, so we have confirmation that it's finally for sale...so somebody buy it now! We need reviews...
i know i've been hounding about this, but arent all the 2x6 models and sizes a new release? are those also on display at the best buy? because i think i'd like to get the 20", or the IPS versioned 24" instead, and was curious if they (the 206 and 246) were there as well.
I did look at it quite closely, and I thought it was superior to the Sammy, Westy, and Gateway 22"ers also displayed. It had a swivel base, but I did not see any height adjustment. The colors looked extremely good.
But the LG is $70 more.
I'm still on the fence if I want to spend the extra $ for a 24" though. I currently have a Dell 2001FP.