2ms LED?

tibble89 · 5 Feb 2011 at 01:04

Alrighty! The topic name is my main 'needs', 2ms + LED. I'll mainly be using it for Xbox 360, so minimal input lag as possible. Reasons for wanting LED is to save power and also seem to have slightly better spec. I use VGA cable for xbox+pc but an HDMI port would be nice to be slightly 'future proof'.

My budget would be £200 - anything less, great!

At moment doesn't seem to be much choice, so does anyone know if there will be many of these released in next month maybe? I know LG have something planned.

Thanks a lot.

tibble89 · 5 Feb 2011 at 15:13

I mainly use http://www.digitalversus.com for info, and I do realise that there's a lot of marketing techniques they use, but until they're all forced to use same methods to test, then I guess it'll always be hard to actually compare monitors.

If LED isn't that impressive then I'll probably just buy the Iiyama E2210 which has been tested to have 0ms input lag. Even if the difference in milliseconds isn't noticeable, I still don't want to be at a disadvantage

tibble89 · 5 Feb 2011 at 17:05

Yeah, I understand that, but most gamers are only bothered about response time + input lag, so when they see 2ms response time and <10ms input lag, they'll buy it, even if it means bad viewing angles (TN). Although reading and watching videos about the U2311H it seems it suffers from some backlight bleeding which is my main worry going from CRT to LCD.

Maybe my best bet is to wait a month and see if anything develops, other than LG's LED IPS gaming monitor.

tibble89 · 5 Feb 2011 at 19:12

The OLED's do look impressive but surely take a few years before they affordable for all of us.

All reviews depends on opinions though, not facts.. so I don't really like to read them that much. I'd much prefer to read a list of specs and then make my make my own decision. If you read a review of same monitor, one by a gamer and other a graphics designer you will get a different opinion, and I think most reviewers tend to sway more to prefer image quality of IPS rather than TN's response time. Here you seem to get people recommended IPS all the time, but on a console forum I know, they all say the same TN panel, Acer H233H..

Let's just pray they're all forced to change what information they tell us so we can make accurate decisions..

tibble89 · 5 Feb 2011 at 19:40

I'll have a read..

Also about 120hz, the xbox/ps3 only run @ 60hz, so would having 120Hz make it 'better' in any way, or would it just be the same as a 60Hz monitor?

tibble89 · 5 Feb 2011 at 20:51

I mainly use a 16/17inch CRT for PC use, so 21-24inch ideally, anything bigger would be too much for my eyes I think.

tibble89 · 5 Feb 2011 at 23:48

Had at look at that one because I do own a Samsung TV which I do like.

As for aesthetics, I don't care that much.. I own a CRT like I said, so I'm not that bothered about style of it.

Another worry is dead pixels, is there any manufacturer which is known for making panels with dead pixels which I should avoid, or is just down to luck which I get?