LG W2363D 23'' 120hz opinions

"Can't go wrong as long as the quality is acceptable"

Yeah, that's exactly it. It's acceptable.
Image quality isn't one of this monitors strong points, it has high gamma, washed out colours, lots of banding, very aggressive AG coating, overdrive makes everything too sharp, it's the monitors performance in other areas that make image quality worth sacrificing :D
 
Thanks for making me less certain. :p

Some good points though. I'm just hoping that I'm going to be a typical pleb, fire it up and go oooh pretty. :p

Would hate to be an phile about something. :o
 
Sorry, didn't mean to do that :D
You've obviously gone for this monitor because you're a gamer (unless it's the 3d that you're interested in). The image quality is more than acceptable and the monitor really excels where it counts, don't worry about it mate :D
 
Yep main use was for games (CS-S and BF3).

3D might be worth a try at some point if I can find some cheap glasses. :)


However, I do some photoshop work and minor website development. Ah well we'll see what it's like. :)
 
Gah, you had my heart going for a second Gothic hobbit. lol

Will review it once it's arrived, PCM2 is there anything I should include?
 
Just your impressions at first! ;) Since your primary use is gaming just your subjective comments regarding responsiveness, colour reproduction (do colours look right to you? Nice and vibrant?) and contrast (are dark areas displayed with an appropriate level of detail, from what you can tell?) in the games would be nice.

I would only advise using 'synthetic' test images to help calibrate or tweak - make sure you're using Internet Explorer as well because Firefox tends to mess these up. Lagom white saturation and perhaps black levels to help set optimal contrast. Also use familiar images, desktop backgrounds and white screenfills and try to rebalance the colour if you notice a tint - don't go overboard on this or you'll start upsetting contrast. There is no reliable way to ascertain correct gamma by eye (ignore the Lagom test for this) but you may want to play around with gamma modes if you can before rebalancing colour to see if this helps the image. Also given the panel type it's best not to get too hung up about this - it does, after all, vary quite considerably at different points of the screen.
 
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Thus far my opinions are fairly meh.

First impression was: damn this is small. Losing the inch of a 24" does make a difference and it's GREATLY compounded by the crap 16:9 ratio.

It's a VERY bright monitor, so definitely need to play around with the settings.

Getting onto the 120hz action, if I'm honest I'm not sure if I can see a difference. My K/D ratio HAS gone up but I'm guessing that do you being psychologically more confident. :p

Overall not bad, but it's not done it for me really. Certainly hasn't redefined anything.
 
Are the games you're playing definitely running at 120hz? Press the "set" button on the monitor while in game to check.
You might be one of the few people that just doesn't notice any difference.

Here are my settings if you want to try them out :D

thru mode on
brightness - 30
contrast 50
gamma 0
red - 47 (actually just tweaking it there, 44 looks better :D )
green - 40
blue - 36
sharpness - 2
rtc - on

Everyone has their own preference and every monitor is different but you could be a good starting place for you to tweak :D
 
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clippa said:
Are the games you're playing definitely running at 120hz? Press the "set" button on the monitor while in game to check.
You might be one of the few people that just doesn't notice any difference.

Here are my settings if you want to try them out :D

thru mode on
brightness - 30
contrast 50
gamma 0
red - 47 (actually just tweaking it there, 44 looks better :D )
green - 40
blue - 36
sharpness - 2
rtc - on

Everyone has their own preference and every monitor is different but you could be a good starting place for you to tweak :D
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Thank you very much for taking the time to post that, really appreciate it. Will try the suggestions out and let you know how it works out. ^_^
 
Is this really sad that I was hoping for this monitor to eradicate the mouse trails? Eg when I move the mouse fast across the screen, I was hoping the 120hz would eliminate the 6-7 other mice things that show up. It really dosen't. :(

lol

P.s in game in CS-S when I press set it shows the resolution as 1920x1080, 119hz I assume that's fine?
 
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garethrobinson1 said:
It doesn't eradicate the mouse trails entirely no, but it's a lot better than my NEC 24WMGX3 in that repsect! In Window's it is a bit 'meh' but hey it's for gaming.
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But it hasn't improved it at all, my eyes can still clearly delineate the flaws as apparently as my old 15" tft. :/
 
I guess I'm comparing a slower A-MVA panel with it so it's a more obvious difference to me. I presume that 15" TFT is a TN panel too..? Anyways, you'll soon feel the difference in game I should think :)
 
kenmare said:
Is this really sad that I was hoping for this monitor to eradicate the mouse trails? Eg when I move the mouse fast across the screen, I was hoping the 120hz would eliminate the 6-7 other mice things that show up. It really dosen't. :(
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No, it'll actually show double the number of mice pointers :D If you see 3 at 60hz, you'll see 6 at 120hz.
I agree, response time needs to be a lot faster to handle 120hz but it's a step in the right direction.
 
JohnnyDrama said:
Can't get mine (arrived this morning) to go to 120hz seems capped at 60 or 50. Using a gtx 570 via hdmi

Other than that its very nice!
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HDMI won't do 1920x1080 @ 120Hz.

You need to connect with DVI using a dual link cable.

A dual link cable should have been supplied with the monitor.
 
JohnnyDrama said:
Yeah it's been supplied, but if I connect via DVI I won't be able to get 1080p?
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Of course you'll get 1080p and @ 120Hz.

DVI and HDMI are electrically identical but dual link DVI offers more bandwidth so it can support 1080p @ 120Hz.

Trust me.

Connect using the dual link DVI cable and you'll be able to run 1920x1080 @ 120Hz.
 
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