BARGAIN - OcUK 24" with DVI (*VA Panel) for £179.99+VAT (This Week Only Deal!!)

Im trying to decide between this one and the Yuraku, it seem the OcUK screen has higher contrast and brightness but lacks the HDCP.

Had a google about but cant find any direct comparisons of the two screen. Do any of you have any experience of them or links to reviews?
 
I've ordered the Yuraku (mainly for the HDCP as my brother has a PS3) so I'll let you know what it's like. I've read some excellent and some terrible reviews, so let's see what the luck of the draw is like. I'm not sure I can tolerate a crap black level though (been using a Viewsonic VP201B and it's really muddy in dark game levels but very good for everything else).
 
Ye i have gone with the Yuraku, my mates have the OcUK one so will set it up dual screen with one of there's and see which looks better, always got the long distance sellers thing to fall back on if its rubbish.

Update:

Got my Yuraku 24", very nice panel, actual monitor is a but old school square blocky style (not that i was expecting more) Is lighter than my 20" panel :/ lol. It all looks good so far, i never opted for a £35 pixel check but i havent found one yet and iv been looking. Still need to play with the settings as some blacks are poor but just using default 50% everything just now. Later will compare it to my mates DGM see how it holds up.
 
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Just got my Yaruku too. Jesus Christ I didn't realise 24" was so big. I've got my 20" sitting next to it and it's like a malnourished dwarf... I was always of the impression that 24" monitors are more or less the same vertical height as a 20" -- not so. This is slightly bigger still.

Impressions so far:
+ *VA panel of some description. No colour shifting as I look above/below.
+ Nice sharp picture
+ Colours look subjectively nice. My retinas haven't been blasted off with that stupid 'vivid' look you get with a lot of other monitors.
+ Can't see any dead pixels, so that's good enough for me.
+ No mouse trails at all in windows. My VP201B has mouse trails but I can't see any with this monitor so far.
+ Decent selection of cables, including two power cables (inc. one foreign), one DVI to HDMI, VGA and audio leads (again, this is a budget monitor so getting anything is a bonus).

- Black depth is, as expected, not very good. If you're going to take a hit somewhere, this is it. For £200ish, you can't have it all.
- Stand is very flimsy. Took me about 20 minutes to work out that it actually does tilt. Once in position you don't have to worry about it, though. The monitor stand is at a good height.
- Lack of a DVI cable

I'll post some more thoughts later once I've built my new PC and had a game with it.

Overall I'm very impressed for the money.
 
do any of the DMG's use the AU-M240UW01-V3 panel? If so what best setting have you all found?

Im using:

Brightness: 52%
Contrast: 57%
Colour temp: User
**Not happy with this bit yet, but what i have so far**
Red: 47%
Green: 41%
Blue: 46%
 
DasFruitMachine said:
Just got my Yaruku too. Jesus Christ I didn't realise 24" was so big. I've got my 20" sitting next to it and it's like a malnourished dwarf... I was always of the impression that 24" monitors are more or less the same vertical height as a 20" -- not so. This is slightly bigger still.

Impressions so far:
+ *VA panel of some description. No colour shifting as I look above/below.
+ Nice sharp picture
+ Colours look subjectively nice. My retinas haven't been blasted off with that stupid 'vivid' look you get with a lot of other monitors.
+ Can't see any dead pixels, so that's good enough for me.
+ No mouse trails at all in windows. My VP201B has mouse trails but I can't see any with this monitor so far.
+ Decent selection of cables, including two power cables (inc. one foreign), one DVI to HDMI, VGA and audio leads (again, this is a budget monitor so getting anything is a bonus).

- Black depth is, as expected, not very good. If you're going to take a hit somewhere, this is it. For £200ish, you can't have it all.
- Stand is very flimsy. Took me about 20 minutes to work out that it actually does tilt. Once in position you don't have to worry about it, though. The monitor stand is at a good height.
- Lack of a DVI cable

I'll post some more thoughts later once I've built my new PC and had a game with it.

Overall I'm very impressed for the money.
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You seem to be one of the lucky ones with a hdmi compatible monitor, good for future proofing, the non hdmi ones come with a dvi cable so the cables you get depends on the screen type
 
Lucky? Thought the place was selling it as hdmi/hdcp? I'd be annoyed if it came as dvi :P

I'll be buying another dgm if i get a summer job :D
 
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Im really happy with this monitor.

Heres a pic of it on my desk

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Hi everyone,

I've been watching this thread for a while now and have subsequently bought one of these monitors for ocuk, i'm very impressed indeed.

My question relates to using it with a ps3. I understand that i would need to get a HD fury converter, and this doesn't bother me. My only concern is that this monitor doesn't posses 1:1 pixel mapping, e.g will it fill the screen like it does with the xbox 360 after HDCP signal is removed? i was just wondering if anyone has tried this? dont want to fork out £70 for something that isn't going to do the job! :)

Sorry if this has been asked already, this thread is huge!
 
Got mine today.:)

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It's ****ing huge compared to my Acer 19" one.

Tha panel is: AU-M240W01-V0. Any good? Also, I'm a bit clueless about how to set up the colours. Is there a decent way of calibrating the screen?
 
A[L]C;11684871 said:
Im really happy with this monitor.

Heres a pic of it on my desk

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hmmmm that looks very familiar...

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And a question: Dose auto adjust only work with VGA? iv only connected via dvi and my auto button does nothing even when i change rez.
 
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jubei said:
Wish i could mate but my g/f is getting proper agitated about the whole business and i have already sent 2 back, how many more am i expected to send back and be stuck with one monitor :/
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I've got one of those....a g/f who gets easily agitated - if she even knew i was gonna blow £200 on a monitor she would freak out, then again they seem to get easily upset at the slightest thing....
Anyway the real reason i posted is that i'm 99% close to buying one but just wanted to make sure that and old rig with x1950pro/AMD64 3200+/2gb DDR RAM would produce good results on this monitor - I can currently run games like Bioshock/Oblivion/Battlefield 2 and Rainbow 6 Vegas on High on my 17" Packard Bell crappy CRT monitor - so my question is; would i still be able to run at the same settings or would i get a noticable performance drop?
Also, is this monitor good for displaying XBox HD capabilities? (I'm thinking of blowing moremoney on one of them too)
Any help greatly appreciated
 
thx1971 said:
I've got one of those....a g/f who gets easily agitated - if she even knew i was gonna blow £200 on a monitor she would freak out, then again they seem to get easily upset at the slightest thing....
Anyway the real reason i posted is that i'm 99% close to buying one but just wanted to make sure that and old rig with x1950pro/AMD64 3200+/2gb DDR RAM would produce good results on this monitor - I can currently run games like Bioshock/Oblivion/Battlefield 2 and Rainbow 6 Vegas on High on my 17" Packard Bell crappy CRT monitor - so my question is; would i still be able to run at the same settings or would i get a noticable performance drop?
Also, is this monitor good for displaying XBox HD capabilities? (I'm thinking of blowing moremoney on one of them too)
Any help greatly appreciated
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I think you'll struggle at this high a res tbh
 
Have decided to ask for a full refund on mine, it's my 2nd one and recently developed same prob as my 1st, thick black line the full width of screen.

I do like the monitor but I'm not prepared to risk a 3rd one so unfortunatley I will try another brand now.
 
atconc said:
Thought I'd provide an update on how this is going, I'm really disappointed, Digimate have provide 0 communication on what's happening, I called earlier this week and was told that it would take up to 7 business days and then they would call me, today is the 9th business day so I called them again. I've now been told that the monitor needs a new panel but they don't have any in stock, they are waiting for a shipment and they also don't have any complete monitors in stock either.

So it's only through the lucky fact that I was using a dual monitor set up and have another monitor to use that I can use my PC at all. I know the monitor was cheap but this is really disappointing.
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I still don't have my monitor back, it's been more than a month now, I've contacted OCuk complaints via a web note and got a one line reply stating that they will contact the manufacturer and "try to speed things up" but that was last Friday and I've heard nothing since. I've spent a lot of money with overclockers over the years and recommended them to a lot of friends but after this I'll be thinking twice before I use them again.
 
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