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It uses the same panel as the much-loved Dell U2311H. It doesn't offer the same level of processing (such as pixel overdrive to increase grey to grey response times) which is one reason for the lower price. For graphical work this processing shouldn't be required and user reports suggest it is still a reasonably responsive monitor anyway.
 
Mmmm, I should have mentioned I game a lot too. It's actually a Video Game Technology course, so the response time is putting me off a little bit.

Think I might just keep my out for a decent second hand IPS.

How many revisions were there of this dell one?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-046-DE&groupid=17&catid=1425&subcat=

I've found one that specifies it as the A01 revision, were there any widespread problems with it? If something goes wrong or it has a dead pixel or something would I be able to deal with Dell directly or would I have to first go through the retailer?
 
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What exactly makes the U2311 so much cheaper than the U2410? Is there much difference in image quality or is it purely the 16:10 aspect ratio and added inputs?
 
I am not really very clued up on all this display jargon. What exactly is the gamut? I did a quick wiki, am I right in saying the gamut is the range of colours the monitor can display, so a wider gamut means it can display a wider range of colours?

I remember reading something about an extended gamut monitor and people were saying that colours on standard gamut material looked a lot more saturated, how is this so? Unless extended gamut is actually an entirely different colour pallet, opposed to just an expanded one?
 
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Someone must be able to answer my questions :)
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It's answered in the extremely detailed sticky that Baddass has written up:

Q. What does a monitors colour gamut mean?

Colour gamut or colour space refers to the range of colours which the screen is capable of showing, in relation to a reference colour space. The human eye can see a certain range of colours which is represented by a CIE Diagram. This shows the full range in reds, greens and blues which the eye can see. Within that massive range there are various reference colour spaces, the most common of these being the sRGB space. There are also other reference colour spaces such as the NTSC and AdobeRGB which are often used in specifications nowadays. These are larger colour spaces than sRGB, so manufacturers needed a way to quantify the improvements they had made.

The colour space / gamut capability of a monitor is not determined by the panel technology, but rather by the backlight technology being used. Traditional screens used standard CCFL backlighting which (for simplicity of comparison here) offered a colour space covering the sRGB space almost exactly, which equates to about 72% of the now popular NTSC reference space. With backlighting technology improvements, some screens now use W-CCFL (Wide) backlighting which can offer an extended gamut covering around 92% of the NTSC space. Other technologies like LED backlighting are also becoming more common, and cover >100% of the NTSC space commonly.

While a larger colour space might sound like a good idea, it's not always for everyone. You need to keep in mind what content you will be viewing on the screen, and what colour space that content is based on. Since sRGB is very common and the standard for many things like Windows and the internet, viewing sRGB content on an extended gamut screen can cause oversaturation of colours. Reds and greens in particular can appear quite 'neon' and some users do not like this. The smaller colour space of the content is, in a very crude way, 'stretched' over the larger colour space of the monitor. On the other hand, some applications are colour space aware (eg photoshop) and so if you are working with extended gamut content, you will prefer an extended gamut screen. I'd certainly recommend reading more into this as it is only a brief summary here. Where a screen has an extended gamut, they sometimes provide an sRGB emulation mode which work to varying degrees. Handy if you might need to use it, but make sure the screen offers a decent performance when in this mode and that it works.

See here for further information
 
Just one issue with that sticky. It was written when the direction of LED backlighting was towards a triad RGB design. To avoid confusion - most LED backlighting is now WLED with a colour gamut restricted to around 70% sRGB. This is neither here nor there in the case of the U2311 vs. U2410 but just don't want people getting the wrong idea. :)
 
Ah true, I missed that. I think the info on TFTCentral is updated so there isn't that problem if you read that.

If fact, the LED Backlighting section on that page explains this :)

LED backlighting units come in two flavours typically for desktop monitors, those being White-LED and RGB LED. With White-LED (W-LED) The LED's are placed in a line along the edge of the matrix, and the uniform brightness of the screen is ensured by a special design of the diffuser. The colour gamut is still limited to around 68% NTSC but are cheaper to manufacturer and so are being utilised in more and more screens, even in the more budget range. They do have their environmental benefits as they can be recylced, and they have a thinner profile making them popular in super-slim range models and notebook PC's.
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