best 19 inch ws tft

Psycho Sonny · 15 Feb 2007 at 17:56

what is the best 19 inch widescreen tft? also value for money i have up to say £150 to spend

Draeger · 15 Feb 2007 at 20:06

Coincidentally, today I bought an Octigen 19" Widescreen TFT monitor from a local PC place near me.

£120.

Total bargain!!!.

It looks great and its performance is excellent as well. Response time is 8ms and games look very good running under it. 3 year warranty as well. It also has DVI input, although it did not come with a DVI cable in the box.

Highly recommended piece of kit!!!. I'm chuffed to bits with it.

Hxc · 15 Feb 2007 at 20:17

Hyundai N91W is meant to be the dogs of the 19" WS range, will have mine tommorrow, will keep you up to daate.

james.miller · 15 Feb 2007 at 20:19

dont do it! at least not without looking at a few in store first. 19" widescreens are just too small. hell 19" 5:4's are too small in my eyes - im itching to get rid of mine for a 22/24"

Hxc · 15 Feb 2007 at 20:21

I've been used to 15"s for long enough; I think a 19" will be a welcome suprise. Plus my new x1950 pro should be able to run on practically max.

james.miller · 15 Feb 2007 at 20:30

ok then

just remember a 19" widesceen tft is only 1 inch higher in screen area than a 15" 4:3 lcd. if you can handle that then its fine

it really isnt a case of 'ooooh its so much bigger' though. please go and look at one before dropping money on one

Hxc · 15 Feb 2007 at 20:43

james.miller said:
ok then just remember a 19" widesceen tft is only 1 inch higher in screen area than a 15" 4:3 lcd. if you can handle that then its fine it really isnt a case of 'ooooh its so much bigger' though. please go and look at one before dropping money on one

You have 4" larger diagonal, yet only get 1" bigger?

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/6985/size21vu.png and http://tvcalculator.com/index.html?21984f7af292614c98af5b3a989d7f35

Seem to suggest its a little bit more than that mate.

You get the height of a 17" with added width, which I have always prefered, even on this monitor when watching recorded tv shows, I force 16:9 with VLC.

james.miller · 15 Feb 2007 at 20:48

Hxc said:
You have 4" larger diagonal, yet only get 1" bigger?

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/6985/size21vu.png and http://tvcalculator.com/index.html?21984f7af292614c98af5b3a989d7f35

Seem to suggest its a little bit more than that mate.

well, it isnt. infact its almost exactly 1.06" higher and 4.12" wider than a 15" 4:3, or 1.8" shorter and 1.27" wider than a 19" 5:4. remember that with a 16:10 widescreen like the 19's you are messuring the diagonal and a shallower angle so yse it is 4 inhces wider, but not much taller

www.tvcalulator.com is a wonderful resource, but why are you looking at a 20.1" and a 17" there? we're talking about 19" widesceens

if that doesnt convince you nothing will, but at least go and see one in action first. there's no reason not to.

http://tvcalculator.com/index.html?d8bb0f1f098162a2e6e163b399923517 will give you the real screen sizes. a 17" 5:4 is half an inch taller by the way.

Hxc · 15 Feb 2007 at 20:58

james.miller said:
no, it isnt. infact its almost exactly 1.06" higher and 4.12" wider than a 15" 4:3, or 1.8" shorter and 1.27" wider than a 19" 5:4.

www.tvcalulator.com is a wonderful resource, but why are you looking at a 20.1" and a 17" there? we're talking about 19" widesceens if that doesnt convince you nothing will, but at least go and see one in action first. there's no reason not to.

http://tvcalculator.com/index.html?d8bb0f1f098162a2e6e163b399923517
will give you the real screen sizes. a 17" 5:4 is half an inch taller by the way.

Whoops, I forgot to use the new url, I was comparing the right things when I did it, forgot to copy the new one accross! I thought that 17" was still 4:3 and only at 19" it went 5:4? And I thought you just meant 1" in total bigger, the extra 4" widthways means a lot to me, much prefer the widescreen aspect for anything really.

edit: just looked it up, I'm wrong about the 5:4 thing. Sorrys.

james.miller · 15 Feb 2007 at 21:03

no, 17" and 19" non-widescreen tft's share the same 1280x1024 resolution which is 5:4

The real killer for me is that its an inch shorter than a regular 19" screen, and also the fact that it is actually a lower resolution. i'm already fairly limited by the res of my 19" panel, let alone a widescreen version. there just isnt enough desktop space. 20.1-22" is much more like it. 24" is ideal in my eyes

i like it when you throw my sony 40w in to the mix http://tvcalculator.com/index.html?dcf0dc74d3454cc9faf3f4c836895533 hehe

Hxc · 15 Feb 2007 at 21:06

24" would be ideal in my eyes too, I just can't justify £350 extra for it (esspecially as I'm young and don't really have a reliable source of income). Plus the need of a better gfx card kills it for good. If I could afford a better monitor (Dell 20" would be my next step up, I tend to look at the top quallity parts of ranges, thus my N91W choice) I would love it; the next res up I would have liked, but I'll be happy as a step up from 1024x768.