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

Out of the box, I am amazed at the improvement over my w2207 HP 22" monitor.

Sure, the build and stand are a bit flimsy, but the quality of the panel is clearly very good. I always seemed to get text bleed on my old monitor, coupled with poor vertical viewing angles, it grew quite annoying, so I am glad that both of these issues are addressed by this.

I NEARLY bought the Dell, but I'm glad I didn't, as this is an absolute bargain.

To any potential buyers out there who are dithering, as I was, take a chance, its a great screen. You really do need to look past the brand.

Time to have a play with the colours. What do you use Alex?
 
:( Meh - mine arrived today - was looking so much forward to it, only to find that mine is malfunctioning. The display goes intermittently on and off - my VGA card is fine and tried different power and DVI cables - will be RMAing and frankly since I live outside the UK its so much a hassle to risk receiving another defective model. Delivery takes 5 days here so thats another 10 before I receive a new one. So I'm opting for a refund and I will buy one locally. Pity since I was looking forward to it. In my opion OcUk should test such items before they ship them at least for overseas items.
 
I bought a pair of these to replace dual 19's, and they're oustanding. One had a line of dead pixels, and has been returned. Replacement has shipped and should be here tomorrow hopefully. Pretty good turn around, as I only placed the original order last Monday and got the screens on Tuesday.

I play a lot of racing games, and now find myself tempted to get a 3rd, to run a TH2Go setup. Although doubt they'll fit on my desk. These things are hyoooooooge.

Definitely glad I bought these. Well worth the dough.
 
Mark_McQ said:
... These things are hyoooooooge.
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I think it depends on the background you are coming from. If you are used to 15" displays then this will initially appear huge, but you will get used to it VERY quickly. Similarly, if you are used to using larger displays, you wont find this thing huge at all. I'm used to a 19" CRT and have a 81" projector screen in my lounge - I was not overawed at all by the size.

Also, one thing I have noticed about these monitors, is that while HD video is excellent (as you would expect), Standard Defiition (SD) video images are extremely poor (lots of pixellation and images look blocky) - my Sony 19" CRT obliterates this monitor when it comes to SD video quality. In all other departments, this monitor fares very well, especially for the price.
 
/meh. i have a suitable big lcd tv, and this is still large when your sitting in from if it. its all about perception isnt it. from the typical distance you sit form a monitor, a 24" fills most of your visual range. in that sence, it fills more of my vision than my lcd tv does from where i watch that. 24" definitely is "big" when you are practically sitting on top of them lol

sunama said:
Also, one thing I have noticed about these monitors, is that while HD video is excellent (as you would expect), Standard Defiition (SD) video images are extremely poor (lots of pixellation and images look blocky) - my Sony 19" CRT obliterates this monitor when it comes to SD video quality. In all other departments, this monitor fares very well, especially for the price.
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what are you doing with them then? running sd resolutions on the monitor would result in some sever blurring but not pixellation - the opposite of what you're saying. if your using ffdshow then you wouldnt be getting it either?
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what are you doing with them then? running sd resolutions on the monitor would result in some sever blurring but not pixellation - the opposite of what you're saying. if your using ffdshow then you wouldnt be getting it either?
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There is no blurring at all. In fact, even the blockiness looks sharp, but that in itself is the problem. I have to switch off ffdshow's sharpening filters because it makes low res images even more blocky. Low-res videos need an element of blurring carried out upon them. Old style CRT tvs did this. LCD screens on the other hand attempt to make every pixel as sharp as possible. This is why LCDs are good for HD images, but for the lower res stuff, are terrible. Expensive LCDs have a lot of processing features that can blur low-res video, to make it acceptable. (They still cant compete against good plasma tvs, when it comes to lower res video). I believe computer LCD monitors have none of this processing, so you get a warts and all picture - no problem with high res video, but a serious problem for low res video.

The above is referring to low res DIVX/XVID encodings. A good quality DVD transfer will suffer less on this sort of monitor. Apparently Fracture is a great DVD transfer, though I havent tried any DVDs on this monitor yet.
 
split said:
See post here
Has a link to video on youtube to show Xbox being hooked up.
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Yes but mine doesnt work??? MY VGA Cable works fine on my 1080p samsung but not on the DGM...

My PC is hooked up via DVI, i go to change and it doesnt work just a black screen but i can hear sound. Ive tested it on a normal crappy tele and it works fine.

But if i use the the VGA cable and hook up the monitor to my laptop... it works... so i know the VGA works.

Its stange though because when i hook up my 360 VGA cable to the DGM it doesnt say no signal/no input - just a black screen. But if i unplug the VGA cable from the 360 it says no input :confused:

Any ideas?
 
Shep_Cobain said:
Yes but mine doesnt work??? MY VGA Cable works fine on my 1080p samsung but not on the DGM...

My PC is hooked up via DVI, i go to change and it doesnt work just a black screen but i can hear sound. Ive tested it on a normal crappy tele and it works fine.

But if i use the the VGA cable and hook up the monitor to my laptop... it works... so i know the VGA works.

Its stange though because when i hook up my 360 VGA cable to the DGM it doesnt say no signal/no input - just a black screen. But if i unplug the VGA cable from the 360 it says no input :confused:

Any ideas?
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Are there any settings on the monitor that could be the problem, do you have the monitor at a certain menu setting that cant display the 360 signal?
 
sunama said:
There is no blurring at all. In fact, even the blockiness looks sharp, but that in itself is the problem. I have to switch off ffdshow's sharpening filters because it makes low res images even more blocky. Low-res videos need an element of blurring carried out upon them. Old style CRT tvs did this. LCD screens on the other hand attempt to make every pixel as sharp as possible. This is why LCDs are good for HD images, but for the lower res stuff, are terrible. Expensive LCDs have a lot of processing features that can blur low-res video, to make it acceptable. (They still cant compete against good plasma tvs, when it comes to lower res video). I believe computer LCD monitors have none of this processing, so you get a warts and all picture - no problem with high res video, but a serious problem for low res video.

The above is referring to low res DIVX/XVID encodings. A good quality DVD transfer will suffer less on this sort of monitor. Apparently Fracture is a great DVD transfer, though I havent tried any DVDs on this monitor yet.
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You know ive been debating and battling with this very subject past few weeks now ever since I brought an Philips 26inch LCD and noticed my Cable digital TV looks like VHS on it..... even VHS looks better tbh, its nothing but messy/blurry/pixel tv !

Think your right with your saying, its a shame LCDS were really designed for HD content and not SD content, then again I may just need to do some tweekage on the screen and even on the PC with FFDshow sharpness filters to try and get back some of that lovely SD quality off my old philips 22" CRT TV :)

Gonna give that FFDshow tweek a try thx
 
So I guess one of these with a much larger screen wouldn't be much good as a tv?
I ask only cos I have one and I'm in the market for a new big screen tv(yeah I know, wrong forum!)
 
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