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(Post a comment) » 19'' High-End Gaming LCD Roundup June 2005Alan lines up five 19'' monitors in classic FiringSquad style with colorimetry comparison and in-depth reviews of each panel. NEC, Hyundai, Samsung and LG showcase their 'good stuff'. With the top brands in the 'gaming LCD' segment represented here today, who will end up on top? Only one way to find out... |  Previous news article | Back to main news | Next news article  |
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Anonymous at 08:10am 03/18/2006
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Ever heard of SyncMaster 930BF?
'nuff said.
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goku2100 at 02:25pm 06/24/2005
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I know where people got that Analog RGB produces better color than
DVI. It's from CRT monitors that using analog is better than DVI
because DVI is exact while analog can give many more color shades
(in theory). Now if anyone wants to prove this wrong, by all means
do it because I only heard this from another source..
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GX-Alan at 06:24am 06/22/2005
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Yup, I will make an effort to spend more time explaining everything.
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Trogdor at 03:58pm 06/21/2005
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That helps Alan, thanks. Unlike 18, I wasn't trying to be an !&#.
I was just confused as to WTF DeltaE was supposed to represent. I
was assuming that a score of 0 would be perfect, and yet the article
text doesn't really explain things clearly.
Some of the monitors listed uncalibrated and calibrated Delta E
while others didn't. In fact, only one of the monitors lists the
uncalibrated, calibrated by eye, and calibrated by tool values.
(That would be the Samsung 920T.) If you're going to place weight
on the Delta E scores, we should at least have the same type of
measurements from every monitor. Otherwise, as I indicated in post
16, it just creates confusion.
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scottwilkins at 09:02am 06/21/2005
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Oops, forgot you can't edit posts... grr....
Alan, please include more information about resolution handling on
any future LCD review you do.
Thanks!
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scottwilkins at 09:00am 06/21/2005
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That's a bummer about the resolution problem on the L90. I play a
lot on a laptop with 1600x1200 resolution, though I usually play
games at 1280x1024 on that LCD. First, I'm surprized that more
19" LCD monitors don't support 1600x1200 as that seems logical.
Oh well. But, on my laptop running at the lower resolution has a
really nice effect. It gives the image almost a FSAA look, without
any FSAA turned on. Since the pixels are intropolated to show the
lower resolution on the higher number of true pixels, it smoothes
out the image's rough edges. To state it simply, it looks gorgeous
and is fast because I don't need to turn on FSAA in most games. In
fact adding 2x or 4x FSAA using this lower resolution almost is
unnoticable.
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GX-Alan at 07:07am 06/21/2005
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I just write the text, FiringSquad puts in the ads...
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GX-Alan at 07:13am 06/21/2005
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Sounds like you guys rushed through the background part... although
I will explain it in more detail for the next article.
Delta E is a mathematical description of the difference between two
colors. In LAB color space (as opposed to RGB), it's just the
difference between the two coordinates (i.e square
root((L1-L2)^2+(A1-A2)^2+(B1-B2)^2)). We measure the average deltaE
for the 32 color patches.
It's usually said that anybody can see a difference between two
colors if it's a deltaE of 5 to 6, but a "trained eye" or someone
nitpicky can discern between 3 and 4, and that in terms of things
like shades of gray, we can see the difference between 0.5.
Ok, there are two types of numbers that can be obtained.
Uncalibrated and calibrated numbers. Uncalibrated numbers reflect
the true image quality of the display. This is the performance
you'll get with your monitor when you buy it. This is the
performance you'll get with movies. This is the number that's most
important.
Calibrated numbers are obtained when you use a $350 color
calibration tool. When you calibrate a monitor in software, you
lose some gradients (the total number of colors in the palette goes
down) but the overall color balance becomes more accurate. Color
calibration only affects your desktop and games, and does not affect
your videos (DVD, WMV, Divx AVI, etc.). In this article I also use
calibration-by-eye tools from LG and Samsung in which the viewer is
asked to pick out which patch looks better. This is like a
synthetic test of what's the monitor's potential is.
The "amazing" sub-5 score from the NEC 1980Fxi is an uncalibrated
score. This is the best performa
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likewoahman at 06:20am 06/21/2005
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what about a screen i can look at hours in the dark without blinking
or squinting under $200
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Anonymous at 03:22am 06/21/2005
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it seems to me that alan (newegg.com) is trying so hard to prove to
everyone (newegg.com) that he is an expert in imaging technology but
instead blunders (newegg.com) another article and fails miserably
(newegg.com).
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