Pc. monitor

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Fake coal burner

Feeling the Heat
Nov 11, 2008
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Salt Lake City Utah
Which Desk top pc monitor gives you the best and clearest viewing LCD or LED. Around 18 inch ? The old CRT is trying to give up.
 
get a 24" samsung they are pretty good, or if you got one of them new flat tvs they are good to hook your computer too also.
 
I'm not aware of anything known as as an LED computer monitor. Unless you're a hardcore gamer or a graphics designer (color-critical applications), an LCD screen will delight you. The clunky old huge and heavy CRT goes to the computer recyclers and you get a really nice small-footprint flat screen display. There are scads on the market for very reasonable prices. Visit a large computer retailer, or a Best Buy, or someplace like that...you'll find many from which to choose. Rick
 
fossil said:
I'm not aware of anything known as as an LED computer monitor. Unless you're a hardcore gamer or a graphics designer (color-critical applications), an LCD screen will delight you. The clunky old huge and heavy CRT goes to the computer recyclers and you get a really nice small-footprint flat screen display. There are scads on the market for very reasonable prices. Visit a large computer retailer, or a Best Buy, or someplace like that...you'll find many from which to choose. Rick


most new (less then a year old or 2) have led monitors, all apple products now are led also. they are basicly a LCD with a LED backlight. i love ours and the whole laptop was under 400 bucks.
 
Aha, so I see with a little googling. It's an LCD display with LED backlighting. Still an LCD monitor, call it what they will. I haven't been in the market for a couple of years...things change more quickly than that. In any case, to the OP...find a large retailer that has a big selection of monitors all powered up for viewing and ask a zillion questions of the sales staff. You'll find something that pleases your eye and fits your budget. Rick
 
There are LED monitors and TVs.
They are called OLED (organic LED).
They are not LCD monitors with LED back lighting.
I don't know how the OLED compare to LCD but OLEDs are expensive.
I'm glad to hear that LCD makers are getting away from fluorescent back lighting.
 
You'll find too many people (and even the desrption on the boxes !) calling LCD displays with LED backlights 'LED displays'.

S-IPS panels are 8 bit and pricey - as close to CRT as there is right now. Expensive and unless you are a graphic artist, photographer or really discriminating you could probably pass.

TN panels - cheapest - 6 bit might be labelled 16.7 million colours, but it is a dithering process


MVA
PVA
S-MVA
S-PVA

mix of 6 and 8 bit true 16.7 million colours and speed


glossy screens can have issues with glare (point one up at a ceiling light if you can, if there is a window behind you when you are sitting in front of your monitor it might drive you nuts) ), nicer to look at than matte screens which disperse the glare but you sacrifice some "punch" to colours.



HTH :)



Oh, LCD panels also work / look best at their native resolution so check your video card capabilities.

a really old card might not do the new widescreen formats at all
 
LED backlighting is great and lower power. If you want a good screen though, look for an IPS monitor regardless of the backlighting. IPS screens look much better off axis. You will appreciate the quality difference. It's particularly noticeable as soon as you are not looking a a direct right angle to the screen.
 
I don't have an LED backlight panel but they are very nice. In addition to the lower power, the LED also significantly improves the contrast/black level. The big limitation of Fluorescent backlight panels is that its hard to get the deep blacks of plasma because the backlight bleeds through the "off" pixels. With an LED panel, instead of one backlight there is a full array of LEDs behind the screen, and they use logic that actually switches off the LEDs in the area of the picture that is black.

I have read the same about S-IPS vs. TN as was said above. There are now other types as well - PVA, MVA, ASV, PLS... I'm not even remotely an expert on which is best......
 
If your old CRT is 17" you'll want about 20" in LCD, because the screens are so wide (translation "squat").

At work I have a Samsung and a Dell. I think the Samsung is a little better. I have them both on rotating displays. Usually have them in portrait mode, which makes viewing documents a lot easier -- 100% size viewing of full pages.

At home I have a Dell IPS touchscreen. I don't notice an appreciable difference in image quality between it and the ones at work, although as mentioned, it's not effected by viewing angle. The touch feature is kind of handy sometimes, especially when a dialog pops up -- you can just poke at it, instead of moving the mouse. Probably not really worth paying for on it's own, but when I got it it was the only one with the resolution I wanted.
 
Agreed with the above, don't go smaller than 20" in a widescreen LCD.

I've had hundreds over the years (IT guy). Samsung and HP have been my preferred brands over the eyars. LG also makes nice dispays.
 
Widescreens are very nice because you can set them up to effectively act as two monitors using Windows 7 built-in window snapping features or software available like Aerosnap if you don't have Windows 7.

In Windows 7 the individual windows can be dragged to borders to "snap" automatically or you can use the "windows" and arrow buttons on your keyboard to do the same.
 
My new led back lit monitor came yesterday I got the aoc 23 inch. Boy what a difference it makes.
 
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