Belinea 102035W

Llamahunter

Llamahunter

Llamahunter

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Just received my first LCD monitor and I am happy to report that I am very impressed with my purchase. No dead stuck pixels. Only slight gripe is the odd placement of the USB ports (fairly inaccessable round the back), weak speakers (well in fairness wasn't expecting them to be up to much) and the fact I had to download drivers from Maxdata's FTP site.

Tested the monitor with a few movies and games after some speculative calibration (brightness is especially high out the box). The panel itself seems very responsive didn't notice any decernable ghosting, I am guessing people that are ultra sensivetive might be able to detect some ghosting with certain colour transitions. Proving to be excellent for web browsing and general office use, text and images are sharp and the contrast seems very good.

If I get time will post a full review.

The Llama


 
Will do at some point Baddass, just been too busy enjoying my monitor to go through the tests. I did have a quick run through a couple of the tests and the results I would say are pretty good. I measured the pixel response at 15ms with the test which I suppose is entirely consistant with the 8ms GTG panel rating.

I would agree about the stand it is stiff and I would advise anyone that is anticipating buying the belinea to attach the hoop foot and use that to pull the stand into position (as this locks into the steel inner frame), otherwise you risk damaging the plastic outer shell as if does require a lot of force to move it.

Did feel the behardware review was a little overly critical on colours - just requires a bit of calibration to get a much more satisfactory result.

Generally very happy with my purchase I do feel with a bit more attention to detail (placement of USB ports for instance) belinea could have made this a truely exceptional display it is though still fab.

What I would say though is bare in mind the price, this is significantly cheaper than the Dell 2005 and a full £70 cheaper than the Benq WS with the same panel at trade!
 
Sgoaty, can only speak from personal experience here but my panel is entirely free of defective pixels. Belinea have always offered good warranty support (the company I work for used to have a direct account with Maxdata in Germany) but as far as dead pixels go its inherent to the technology - just something you have to live with I am affraid. I wouldn't care to speculate whether this is less susceptable to dead pixels than previous generations of panels.

Incidently £289.95 + VAT is a great price for this I am sure OCUK will sell shed loads at that price.
 
You need to use a fair amount of force to rotate the base. I strongly recommend you attached the loop base first and use that as extra leverage rather than trying to grip the plastic outer casing.

The force required does seem excessive but once assembled it makes a good sturdy base.

Hope this helps
 
The bottom of the silver speaker panel is 90mm off the desk and the LCD panel is 140mm off the desk.

Nice to see the monitor running alongside a CRT (though the CRT they have selected seems of questionable quality).
 
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