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This screen's great!
This actually feels like a serious effort on a manufacturer to address gamers needs. The input lag is on part with my LG 24 inch screen roughly 1 frame or an avg 22-25ms. Further research on the net shows that while the side ports are the best, the rear ones with the signal processing are also in line with the vyper game mode ports.
Now for the little gripes that most people will hammer to the ends of the earth and try to convince people that it's beyond redemption.
The rear ports do some dynamic contrasting. While it was nearly on par speed wise, the "fade in/fade out" of blacks and brights made you feel like you were high, especially flipping through the menus of a game or in the case of my speed testing, some DDR.
Thankfully the range of the scaling can be narrowed to almost nothing, but in some scenario's it's good to keep on due to the fact it is an LCD and it will bleed somewhat if treated as a monitor.
HDMI doesn't pass through the output optical port. I was so close to cutting down on my wire cluttering, first the wii, then the PS2, both passed through to the receiver fine, then the PS3 comes along and I got no sound.
At default out of the box settings, this screen was "cartoony" bright... like something out of a disney happy nightmare movie... made the wii screen pretty wii licious, but it was over the top. Once brought down in nearly everything, it was fine.
At default, PS2 graphics look... well like ass. kinda reminds me of how the benq treats ps2 graphics, good but not good. My LG really makes the PS2 look horrid. This one was close, but on closer examination, once you put the PS2 to it's 4:3 AND cut down on the sharpness it looks exactly as it should. If you really crank down on the sharpness you can get some free ghetto AA! By default it's stretched, which further worsens a 480i image.
1080p mode though worked perfectly out of the box. It was the one thing I didn't have to mess with for settings. Played a bit of GT:HD, loaded up FF12 and saw everything worked great. Even surfing on the the [H] site forums looked just like my LG24.
The menu's options are a bit vague, but you can figure out most of them without much difficulty.
the side ports... well they're on the side AND you can see the stuff plugged in. That's also a complaint. Since I couldn't do a passthrough from the TV to the receiver, I had to use jumper audio cables to get the PS2 and Wii signals to the receiver which make the cables stick out more.
Overall, I finally found my gaming screen. I only wish it was bigger since based on that room's setup, a 60 inch would look amazing (good luck finding a gaming screen at 60 inches). I've just moved up the sofa so I'm about 6-7 ft from the screen.
EDIT: Newly discovered feature for those wanting to watch movies using a HTPC or laptop but are stuck at 10x7 with said device thru DVI/Analog issues: The Zoom view mode does a PERFECT 16:9 Widescreen view of a 10x7 portion of the screen where the letterbox movie would be. So unless I'm doing some really crazy HD content, I can still use my laptop attached to this screen and watch off it perfectly.
This actually feels like a serious effort on a manufacturer to address gamers needs. The input lag is on part with my LG 24 inch screen roughly 1 frame or an avg 22-25ms. Further research on the net shows that while the side ports are the best, the rear ones with the signal processing are also in line with the vyper game mode ports.
Now for the little gripes that most people will hammer to the ends of the earth and try to convince people that it's beyond redemption.
The rear ports do some dynamic contrasting. While it was nearly on par speed wise, the "fade in/fade out" of blacks and brights made you feel like you were high, especially flipping through the menus of a game or in the case of my speed testing, some DDR.
Thankfully the range of the scaling can be narrowed to almost nothing, but in some scenario's it's good to keep on due to the fact it is an LCD and it will bleed somewhat if treated as a monitor.
HDMI doesn't pass through the output optical port. I was so close to cutting down on my wire cluttering, first the wii, then the PS2, both passed through to the receiver fine, then the PS3 comes along and I got no sound.
At default out of the box settings, this screen was "cartoony" bright... like something out of a disney happy nightmare movie... made the wii screen pretty wii licious, but it was over the top. Once brought down in nearly everything, it was fine.
At default, PS2 graphics look... well like ass. kinda reminds me of how the benq treats ps2 graphics, good but not good. My LG really makes the PS2 look horrid. This one was close, but on closer examination, once you put the PS2 to it's 4:3 AND cut down on the sharpness it looks exactly as it should. If you really crank down on the sharpness you can get some free ghetto AA! By default it's stretched, which further worsens a 480i image.
1080p mode though worked perfectly out of the box. It was the one thing I didn't have to mess with for settings. Played a bit of GT:HD, loaded up FF12 and saw everything worked great. Even surfing on the the [H] site forums looked just like my LG24.
The menu's options are a bit vague, but you can figure out most of them without much difficulty.
the side ports... well they're on the side AND you can see the stuff plugged in. That's also a complaint. Since I couldn't do a passthrough from the TV to the receiver, I had to use jumper audio cables to get the PS2 and Wii signals to the receiver which make the cables stick out more.
Overall, I finally found my gaming screen. I only wish it was bigger since based on that room's setup, a 60 inch would look amazing (good luck finding a gaming screen at 60 inches). I've just moved up the sofa so I'm about 6-7 ft from the screen.
EDIT: Newly discovered feature for those wanting to watch movies using a HTPC or laptop but are stuck at 10x7 with said device thru DVI/Analog issues: The Zoom view mode does a PERFECT 16:9 Widescreen view of a 10x7 portion of the screen where the letterbox movie would be. So unless I'm doing some really crazy HD content, I can still use my laptop attached to this screen and watch off it perfectly.
Just an observation, not a criticism 
