Thinking of retiring the Viewsonic VP191s

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Getting feed up of resting my nose on the screen of my 19" 1280 x 1024 Viewsonic VP191s.
So it's time for a nice cheap 1080p jobbie, does anyone have one of the screens below, or which would you recommend and why ?
Mostly used for browsing, watching TV, a bit of Photo editing and light gaming, still on an HD 4890 1GB at the moment (waiting to see what the HD 7850 or next gen Nvidia mid range cards offer {GTX 660 or GTX 760}, which ever they decide to call them)



1 x IIyama Prolite E2273HDS 22" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £139.99
1 x Iiyama ProLite E2409HDS 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black £137.99
1 x Samsung S22A300B 22" Widescreen LED Monitor - Glossy Black £137.99
1 x BenQ G2222HDL 21.5" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £131.99
1 x OcUK 2436VWA 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black £119.99
1 x Asus VE228H 22" Widescreen LED Multimedia Monitor - Black £113.99
1 x Iiyama ProLite E2208HDD 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black £99.98
1 x OcUK E2250SWDA 22" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £85.99


 
According to a recent review the
BenQ V2220 and Iiyama E2273HDS-B1 are the monitors to get when looking for a cheap Full HD monitor but OC UK stocks neither.

If you can stretch the budget I'd say go for the Iiyama X2377HDS. It's 23" and unlike your list it has an IPS panel which gives you much better viewing angles colours without weird gradations. Great for lazing around in your chair watching movies and good for photoshop as well. With this weeks special deal the price of just under 150 quid is quite nice!
 
I liked this 24 Iiyama but I think what Axeia said made a lot of sense at this price point
 
So it's worth spending a little extra and getting the IPS panel ?
Originally I wanted to get the cheapest 22" 1080p I could and replace my P180 with the P280, but Corsair have thrown a spanner in the works by announcing the Corsair Obsidian 550D Quiet Midi Tower Case. So I'm going to wait for some reviews on that before deciding on the case ;)
 
Davefran said:
So it's worth spending a little extra and getting the IPS panel ?
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I would say so, especially considering your uses:

browsing, watching TV, a bit of Photo editing and light gaming
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IPS panels have two big advantages over TN panel monitors, these are wide viewing angles and accurate colours.

Accurate colours will be very useful for photo editing, as you can be sure that (when calibrated) the colours on-screen are true to life. Also, for other uses having accurate colours does make everything feel a bit more real.

As for viewing angles, this is something IPS panels do very well and TN panels do very poorly. You may think that viewing angles don't matter much if you plan to use the PC mainly straight-on, but the problem is that with TN panels - if you move your head slightly then the colours you see do shift. Also, you are likely to notice some colour banding towards the edges of the screen, due to the viewing angle issue.

That said, IPS panels do have some down sides - the main one being the pixel response times are not as good as TN panels. This means that there is a bit more visible ghosting when running images with a lot of motion. This shouldn't be an issue for TV/movies or desktop work, but for fast-paced gaming it can be noticed (that said, many people on these forums play a lot of games on their modern IPS monitors and find them perfectly fine, so sensitivity to ghosting does vary from person to person). The other main down-side of IPS panel monitors is the price - though in the past few years this has been coming down to the point where they are in throwing distance of similar size TN panel monitors.

Here is some more information of panel technologies if you are interested. Also, here is a review of a nice 23in IPS monitor that is currently available for ~£170 (the £150 Iiyama that Axeia mentions does look like a good one, though I can't see any in-depth reviews for it yet- so I can't recommend it at this point).
 
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