Soyo 22" DYLM22E6 First Impression..

[lifanus]

So, I was browsing office max this afternoon and saw the Soyo 22" DYLM22E6 for $179+tax... bought it so I can use it for daily tasks and games, thus saves my nec 2690 only for photo editing when needed)

Initial impression in the store is that the viewing angle is not too bad, and the front panel design is not too ugly. It is also certified for Windows Vista..

So I bought it, took it home, opened the box, hooked it up -- BAM! -- 6 ugly nasty white stuck pixel in lower right corner, one tiny stuck pixel on top part of the screen, and some pressure marks right below 6 stuck pixel... Oh well,gotta go get a exchange tomorrow. I also hooked up JScreenFix to work on those nasty pixels. I hope it works till tomorrow and I'll give an update..

Boxing, pretty good, they even used color...

Front view

Side view, pretty slim.

Back view, showing the stand

Connections: Only DVI and D-Sub

The stand mounting plate is very very flimsy, it seems just a bit force would tore the plate off that thin layer of plastics that it is fixed on...

Nasty Dead Pixels!

Control Panel

Backlight leak test

Response Time: Typical TN panel, PixPerAn readbility test is a 6, failed on #7, (my old 931BF 19" rated at #8, and LCD2690 rated #10)

Tilt/Pivot: This monitor is especially BAD on this part, with minimal movement possible, only can tilt it upwards for about 25 degrees, you can't tilt it downwards, the height is fixed and you can not rotate it 90 degree either...

Brightness and Contrast: Can go up really high so I assume it's great for vid games and movies.

Input Lag: None that I can detect, awesome for gaming.

Integrated Speaker: Cheap sounding speaker mounted on back of monitor, it sounded worse than a laptop.

I fired up my WoW and Half Life 2 and also Track Mania running at native resolution and they all run quite smooth on this monitor. Scaling seems to be fine, games playable at lower resolutions. There is no 1:1 pixel mapping on this monitor.

I color calibrated it use eye one display 2 and so far the color seems to be under control, there is apparent distrotion shown on the calibration results towards lighter color values.

So after I return this one tomorrow I hope to get a monitor with no dead pixels... let's pray.

 

[lifanus]

bump. avoid buying this piece of junk.

 

[Biges]

That's really scary