looking for a new monitor

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right time has come to ditch my old crt :P

looking at a 24" tft

Dell S2409W or Samsung SM2433BW , have caught my eye, anyone any comments on which is better? i game quite a bit / watch movies and do a lot of browsing :D.

so any advice apreciated. or any other recomendations £250 ish max really
 
The Dell s2409W is a good solid monitor for a good price, of the two it would be my pick.

However, in that budget the best overall monitor is this (Dell 2209WA). It may only be 22inch but it uses a much higher quality panel technology called E-IPS. This means the viewing angles and image quality are much better than any other monitors under £300.
 
[Death];14663363 said:
do a lot of browsing
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Then there's precisely zero sense in low screen.
Also most movies have wider than 16:9 aspect ratio so even "lack of black bars" isn't valid reason for cutting away vertical resolution.


cmndr_andi said:
...(Dell 2209WA). It may only be 22inch but it uses a much higher quality panel technology called E-IPS. This means the viewing angles and image quality are much better than any other monitors under £300.
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Actually there's competition... in 26" WUXGA form.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-076-LG
 
cmndr_andi said:
Edit: Just read this review. For just £300 it looks blooming brilliant !!
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For that price it's a steal!

I myself have used it now for about ten months after using high/ish end Trinitron/Diamondtron CRTs (Nokia 449Xi, Samsung 959NF) for 11 years. After Samsung started failing I got S-PVA paneled Lenovo L220x but because of VA's horizontal gamma shift compressing darkest shades to black from straight angle (that "black crush") didn't feel it as approriate permanent replacement for good CRT so when W2600HP was released and some reviews came out I put order for it after having used Lenovo for three months.
IPS can't match S-PVA's black point but in the end better colour/gamma stability at wider viewing angles makes it now unacceptable to even consider any other LCD type... also input lag is nicely very low:
With comparison in unscientific Human Benchmark I got that ~30ms result difference between CRT and Lenovo and with LG difference dropped toward 10ms class which fits well to PRAD's results... Panel itself is actually newer H-IPS and very probably same as in this Hazro with ~7.5ms lag.
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/hazro_hz26wi.htm
But instead of Hazro's fixed "eyeballs smoking in their sockets" backlight's brightness is adjustable in LG.
 
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