going from non-widescreen to widescreen

fish99 · 27 Jan 2007 at 12:28

Based on those specs your old screen was TN, so you should be fine with another one. The giveaway of panel type is the usually viewing angles - 160 degrees means TN, 175-178 means PVA/MVA/IPS.

The iiyama doesn't get much discussion on here since OcUK don't sell it, so I can't say I've heard much about it. On paper it's as good as any of the 22" screens though but I did find a bit of a review which found it a bit 'average' -

http://www.trustedreviews.com/displ...ma-ProLite-E2200WS-22in-Widescreen-Monitor/p1

Guru · 27 Jan 2007 at 15:13

hmm yeah that review doesnt exactly praise it.

Tempted by the Asus MW221U 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Silver/Black now lol

so hard to decide!!

Does anyone know what day they will change the this week only bit? cause I may wait n see if there is a 22" in there when they change it.

fish99 · 27 Jan 2007 at 23:15

Think TWO changes sometime thursday. Yeah the Asus looks great but has an issue with the overdrive causing pale ghost echoes in front of moving things, although you can turn the overdrive off. Asus have a fix for it, but some of the screens out there at retailers won't include it yet.

Check out the big thread about it for more certain info-

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17669307

Guru · 28 Jan 2007 at 09:21

fish99 said:
Think TWO changes sometime thursday. Yeah the Asus looks great but has an issue with the overdrive causing pale ghost echoes in front of moving things, although you can turn the overdrive off. Asus have a fix for it, but some of the screens out there at retailers won't include it yet.

Check out the big thread about it for more certain info-

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17669307

thanks for the link! just read all of that and now I'm looking for other recommendations! lol

Guru · 28 Jan 2007 at 14:09

This is a list of the 22" tft's that I can get from the people who have my broken one at the moment in exchange if I pay the extra any of these highly recommended? Bearing in mind I'd like dvi, no ghosting, and preferably no backlight bleed :confused:

:

BenQ FP222Wa - Flat panel display - TFT - 22" - widescreen - 1680 x 1050 - 300 cd/m2 - 700:1 - 5 ms - 0.282 mm - VGA (HD-15)

Iiyama Pro Lite E2200WS - Flat panel display - TFT - 22" - widescreen - 1680 x 1050 / 65 Hz - 300 cd/m2 - 1000:1 - 5 ms - 0.282 mm - DVI, VGA (HD-15) - black

Acer AL2216Wsd - Flat panel display - TFT - 22" - widescreen - 1680 x 1050 - 300 cd/m2 - 700:1 - 5 ms - 0.282 mm - DVI, VGA (HD-15) - silver

ViewSonic VG2230wm - Flat panel display - TFT - 22" - widescreen - 1680 x 1050 / 60 Hz - 280 cd/m2 - 700:1 - 5 ms - 0.282 mm - DVI, VGA (HD-15)

Samsung SM225BW Lasrge Format TFT 22" Wide Silver

Samsung SyncMaster 225BW - Flat panel display - TFT - 22" - widescreen - 1680 x 1050 - 280 cd/m2 - 700:1 - 5 ms - 0.282 mm - DVI, VGA (HD-15) - silver

ViewSonic VX2245wm - Flat panel display - TFT - 22" - widescreen - 1680 x 1050 - 280 cd/m2 - 700:1 - 5 ms - 0.282 mm - DVI, VGA (HD-15) - matte black, gloss piano black

Acer AL2416WAs - Flat panel display - TFT - 24" - widescreen - 1920 x 1200 - 300 cd/m2 - 800:1 - 6 ms - 0.27 mm - VGA (HD-15) - black, silver

/edit the ones in bold are in stock or in in the next few days.

Plz help me chose

thedoc46 · 28 Jan 2007 at 15:13

Guru said:
I'm considering going widescreen, I am used to a 19" viewable tft (non-wide) and I don't want a screen where the viewable height is less than what I'm used to.

My question is.... what size monitor will I have to buy to ensure that the viewable height of the actual screen is greater than or equal to that of a 19" non-wide monitor? It will obviously have to be bigger than 19" as it's done diagonally, but what size?

and how much do they cost?

Any recommendations would be brilliant.

The ******* that are not replacing my faulty monitor are only giving me a £226 refund so I'm losing out on about 60 quid there, but thats what I've got to put towards this new screen.

My girlfriend will put in another £50 cause we will both be using it and I will put up another £100 at the most, giving £376.

So the budget is between £226 and £376.

I use it for games and dvds.

Cheers all,

G

p.s. I would consider a non-wide if it was bigger than 19"

<3

All future PC games will need to be widescreen compatibable if they are to don 'The Games For Windows' banner and they must also support the 360 controller.

This is a requirement from microsoft to make use of their marketing.. So expect A LOT more games to support widescreen soon..

I'm still running dual 19in's for now but will probably go widescreen in a yr or so.