Cheapest Non-TN monitor?

six-leaf · 26 Jun 2009 at 01:17

Having grown thoroughly tired of the poor dithering on my 226bw I was wondering if anyone knows of a cheapish 24" monitor (or bigger) thats a true 8-bit panel?

Thanks!

3t3P · 26 Jun 2009 at 15:42

I am interested by this also, how do you know, apart from price, what type of panel you are getting? product descriptions never mention this in my experience.

I had a 226bw too, is dithering when you have certain colours in bands or is that colour banding lol?

DragonQ · 26 Jun 2009 at 15:53

Well the first indication that it's not a TN monitor is price. PVA/MVA/IPS and their variants always cost more - the cheapest 24" non-TN monitors are around £400. The sure-fire way to find out is to read high profile reviews from places that know what they're talking about or to look up the monitors in a panel database such as this one at tftcentral.co.uk.

Blackberries · 26 Jun 2009 at 19:10

Doesn't this have an e-IPS pannel?

Mark07 · 26 Jun 2009 at 19:20

Blackberries said:
Doesn't this have an e-IPS pannel?

Yes it does, though six-leaf wants a 24" screen or above.

six-leaf · 30 Jun 2009 at 21:51

3t3P said:
I am interested by this also, how do you know, apart from price, what type of panel you are getting? product descriptions never mention this in my experience.

I had a 226bw too, is dithering when you have certain colours in bands or is that colour banding lol?

Yeah dithering is where the monitor tries to recreate 16 million colors with just over 260 thousand - so it often results in poor gradients and such. I just miss the fidelity of CRTs. I really dont mind the underlying technology, just want to make sure it has much better color representation.

smogsy · 30 Jun 2009 at 21:57

id look at the dell 2408 if i was u but its bit oversaturated

six-leaf · 3 Jul 2009 at 19:12

Yeah only thing against the 2408 for me is the huge input lag - i can see that getting annoying.

Carefree Chris · 3 Jul 2009 at 20:41

six-leaf said:
Having grown thoroughly tired of the poor dithering on my 226bw I was wondering if anyone knows of a cheapish 24" monitor (or bigger) thats a true 8-bit panel?

Thanks!

Depends what you mean by cheap. For a non-TN panel 24" monitor you're looking at around £400.

Aod · 3 Jul 2009 at 21:02

DragonQ said:
the cheapest 24" non-TN monitors are around £400

thats not strictly true. you just need to look around. i got my OcUK-Value 24" for £200 including VAT and it's an MVA-panel from AU-Optronics.

my other 24" monitor is a NEC Multisync LCD2470WNX (samsung S-PVA) which i picked up 2nd hand for just £125 inc vat