LED

square_nothing · 24 Mar 2010 at 19:05

how good are LED monitors?
i have read a lot about people having motion blur, this common on LED screens?
my mate will be getting a new monitor with his new pc, he wants a a 24" screen but doesn’t mind abit bigger or smaller.
was wondering if LED screens are good for gaming and general picture quality?
he is not to bothered about getting very very low response time as he plays rpg's mainly.

square_nothing · 24 Mar 2010 at 19:25

ok so basically find out what type of panel they are and that will determine the vueing angle.
they wont give any more motion blur compared to a non led screen

so for a monitor would you recommend going for a Samsung LED monitor over a non LED?

square_nothing · 24 Mar 2010 at 19:38

so just totally ignore the contrast ratio? or take it with a pinch of salt.

square_nothing · 24 Mar 2010 at 19:44

he says he will spend upto around £200~ but if he can save he will.

square_nothing · 24 Mar 2010 at 19:58

cmndr_andi said:
If its dynamic, I would ignore it tbh. If you dig around the specs then you will find a static contrast ratio, but this isn't particularly exciting and isn't featured on the advertising as it is likely only 1000:1 (+/- 200).

There is a cool tech used by rear-backlit LED monitors/TVs which locally dims the LED backlights around the picture where the picture is dark - which really does work and provide good "dynamic contrast", but from what I have seen this tech is not featured on current monitors.

The best way to evaluate a monitor is to dig up a review which puts it through a range of tests. There is almost nothing in the "quoted specifications" except the Panel type (if they list it) and the response time (so long as it is under 10ms it is fine) that you should use to make your decision on the monitor. Things like input lag, backlight uniformity, backlight bleed, black level, accurate viewing angles, existence of motion blur, build quality, colour accuracy and more are not quoted in the specs, but are extremely important and only provided by a good in-depth review.

ok thanks, so it burns down to looking for lots of reviews for monitors with a ms of less than 10.

thanks for the help

square_nothing · 24 Mar 2010 at 22:07

cmndr_andi said:
If you are interested in a recommendation, this is mine.

its a bit smaller than requested and a bit more expensive, but believe me it is worth it. it uses an e-ips panel, is excellent for pretty much all uses including games and comes with a great warranty to boot. Here is a review.

its got a lot of very good reviews but it is £250 i think its a little out of his budget

thanks for the recommendation i will let him know none the less

square_nothing · 24 Mar 2010 at 22:50

the Samsung's PX2370 seems to be over £300 so i think it will be, altho looking at it it looks really good

the story is the same with the XL2370 it seems to be over £250. i will tell my friend that it might be worth increasing his budget if he wants a very good LED monitor or look at non LED ones for the £200 original budget.
Will also be looking out for that new monitor as that is around the time he will get his pc.