Has anyone tested this display yet? I'm looking for a good gaming display with low input lag, and was intrigued by the 170°/170° viewing angles per LG's specs. I'm also wondering how the image quality stacks up compared to the BenQ G2400W or the Samsung 245BW.
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LG W2452T
- Thread starter Deinonych
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Kaldskryke
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I'm not sure why specified viewing angles should cause any kind of reaction aside from eye-rolling...
LG Flatron W2452T-F was the deal at the $450 price, plus sales tax, while on sale at Best Buy, a couple of weeks ago. I been trying it out to see if I had made a mistake, but there was no thread for this model and not much can be found on it. There seems to be another similar model on the LG site that shows a W2452T-V that comes with speakers. Interestingly, the specs it shows that it draws slightly less current then the T-F. I tried to find out all I could before I bought the last one among the Good Buys in my area (North Jersey). So far I have not seen any "horror stories" and have looked hard to find fault during the 30 day return period. I did not do any gaming so far. I am interested in photos and DVD on this monitor, mostly do web surfing. I would consider an even bigger monitor to see larger print without changing the font size.
I just built my PC with an EVGA 8800 GT with an intel Quad Core and Asus PK5 MB , 4 Gigs of Ram. There are only a few issues that I have noticed on my Vista Home Premium:
Slight jerkiness when the scenery is panning a lot. Sometimes the left click on the Logitech L7 wireless mouse timing does not open up an Icon till I left click on it continuesly as it it were stuck for awhile. However if I right click on the Icon and select OPEN, it works everytime. After I recalibrate the mouse button clicking speed it works fine for a short time unless, I mess with the "F" engine with LG software that was just updated to 3.05 on their website. Pushbuttons for the Onscreen programing are almost useless and "Quirky" in their function, the Zoom in Feature does nothing. Wish it worked like the Gateway FHD2400. The stand sucks for a $500 dollar monitor but at least this time LG included a DVI connector.
Monitor has good color out of the box as far as I can tell, and looked better than most of the Monitors in the store that are connected to a computer or VGA 1680x1050 shelf. The W2452T has Great Blacks, and Color stays consistant when I turn down the blinding brightness, as I have read and sit in front of the screen . The custom presets are the best thing about the F engine. Getting better at using it. Have yet to callibrate custom RGB (if needed). The 10,000 to 1 contrast ratio does not seem to be much different from the 3,000 to 1 on the Samsungs but looks better than any 1000 to 1 that I have seen at Good Buys. I am half set on keeping it. I want to hear from others as there was no serious testing done on this product anywhere.
I just built my PC with an EVGA 8800 GT with an intel Quad Core and Asus PK5 MB , 4 Gigs of Ram. There are only a few issues that I have noticed on my Vista Home Premium:
Slight jerkiness when the scenery is panning a lot. Sometimes the left click on the Logitech L7 wireless mouse timing does not open up an Icon till I left click on it continuesly as it it were stuck for awhile. However if I right click on the Icon and select OPEN, it works everytime. After I recalibrate the mouse button clicking speed it works fine for a short time unless, I mess with the "F" engine with LG software that was just updated to 3.05 on their website. Pushbuttons for the Onscreen programing are almost useless and "Quirky" in their function, the Zoom in Feature does nothing. Wish it worked like the Gateway FHD2400. The stand sucks for a $500 dollar monitor but at least this time LG included a DVI connector.
Monitor has good color out of the box as far as I can tell, and looked better than most of the Monitors in the store that are connected to a computer or VGA 1680x1050 shelf. The W2452T has Great Blacks, and Color stays consistant when I turn down the blinding brightness, as I have read and sit in front of the screen . The custom presets are the best thing about the F engine. Getting better at using it. Have yet to callibrate custom RGB (if needed). The 10,000 to 1 contrast ratio does not seem to be much different from the 3,000 to 1 on the Samsungs but looks better than any 1000 to 1 that I have seen at Good Buys. I am half set on keeping it. I want to hear from others as there was no serious testing done on this product anywhere.
Well now I have returned the Gateway FHD2400 as all the other features did not make up for the fact that the monitor started to bug me. When looking at white pages and reading text, there was a Yellowish Brown tinge running down the right side. I wound up swiveling the monitor to bring that side closer. However that did not help much. Strangely I found that the view at an angle toward the right edge darkened out with polarized sun glasses. That did not happen from the left side. I used my sunglasses and found more monitors at best buy that acted like this and did not want to exchange for another. Though I must say that the display FHD2400 was not as bad as mine.
Nothing in the store was acceptable to me for now. I hear a new model Gateway is on the horizon and Panasonic, Nec and Hitachi are forming a group to make IPS panels.
Stupidly I exchanged it instead of returning the LG the first time, and then ran out of the 14 day exchange period where the salesman told me I had thirty days. Luckily I was able to talk Best Buy into letting me have a store credit (gift card) that I can use later, probably for a refrigerator, my wife says. Now I am back to my square 19 inch Acer for now. It was a learning experience.
Nothing in the store was acceptable to me for now. I hear a new model Gateway is on the horizon and Panasonic, Nec and Hitachi are forming a group to make IPS panels.
Stupidly I exchanged it instead of returning the LG the first time, and then ran out of the 14 day exchange period where the salesman told me I had thirty days. Luckily I was able to talk Best Buy into letting me have a store credit (gift card) that I can use later, probably for a refrigerator, my wife says. Now I am back to my square 19 inch Acer for now. It was a learning experience.