Deyvy said:
Yeah reading through a lot of people seemed to have had a lot of problems. Proportianlly, I dont know how many that is compared to how many have bought it...But for the ones who have had no problems, its seems to be a great screen..
I myself had no problems *taps his head*. And it IS a great screen..The design looks great too.
Plenty of people bought this screen and had no problems. Reported problems in the threads are usually looking more dramatic simply because people will post more about them. Many people who didn't have problems didn't bothered to post about it. So in essence, when we are talking about the balance of working/faulty scenario and when you combine the numbers of units sold by OcUK, I think that there is really no reason for panic. Bezel or buzzing problems some people reported here are definitely not major ones and we have really few situations that screen is completely dead or seriously faulty on arrival. I can understand that people are extremely cautious when purchasing the monitors online. However, they are really & very well protected with the monitor warranty in case of any unfortunate event. Yes, RMA route is a pain sometimes (in NEC case is pretty much straightforward) ... and in majority of cases things will turn out nicely at the end.
Regarding 20WGX2 rating ... well I personally think that it's the best 20" LCD money can buy right now (if you don't mind slight price difference). I've seen people downgrading from the new 22" TN panels and even from 24" panels to NEC, simply because of the PQ. NEC is currently fastest gaming monitor (and gamers choice) and have excellent colour quality too. If you combine the AS-IPS panel technology (and that means really great colours), exceptional gaming performance and many add-on features: 1600:1 Advanced DV dynamic contrast, OptiClear, proper 1:1 pixel mapping with very good scaler and support for all 3 modes (1:1, stretching, stretching but keep aspect ratio), excellent NEC support ... well, what more cold you wish for
Regarding design, I like it too and it's quite refreshing - and it's even more nicely matched with other components as nowadays people usually do have silver components. Somewhat, I'm bored with all that black bezel outlines around
I see on the forum here that 2007FWP is major rival. It's probably second good option if you are on the budget and it's good value for money. It has nice colours and PQ, it's slower then NEC and doesn't have dynamic contrast. Also, Dell started to play panel lottery again and you may get S-PVA (although Dell is surprisingly quite about this). S-PVA does have nice colour saturation but maybe is not so optimal choice for photo editing because of the off perpendicular colour shift and doesn't have such great gaming potential as NEC. I think that NEC is probably more "modern" and advanced panel and price difference is not that substantial any more (at least in Europe).
So, yes, in my view NEC is still holding the 20" crown ... without any single shadow of doubt.
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