Philips 20" 200W6CS Widescreen TFT LCD

Raymond Lin · 3 Feb 2006 at 22:38

Lord Justice said:
I have also just got one of these, and initial impressions are excellent, good viewing angles, good response.

The backlight bleed is exactly the same on mine as seen previously, hardly noticeable, but a little off in the likes of FEAR, but I'm so far very happy with my purchase.

I just notice the box (didn't notice before) that mine is a 05 model, not a 00, not bothered thou, Phillips might not have changed the box but still a bit odd. And the screen is excellent regardless which panel it is.

Raymond Lin · 3 Feb 2006 at 22:47

The box thou does say its a 16mm panel still, the sticker on it is 05 too. A little odd thats all.

Raymond Lin · 3 Feb 2006 at 23:01

Seirrah said:
the 05 sticker would be normal, but the 16ms sticker

how to find out ??

its not a sticker, but the printing on the box.

Raymond Lin · 3 Feb 2006 at 23:20

There's no printed instruction, but a standard Driver CD for the 200W6 which has the 16ms spec on it and a 600:1 contrast ratio.

The most strange of all, the model number on the BACK of the monitor itself is the 00 model !!!!!!!!!!

What is going on? Everything except the monitor suggest it is a 05 model with 16ms but the sticking on the back of the monitor itself is a 00 model. It really looks like Phillips have just updated the panel and nothing else, not the box or the CD that it comes with.

Raymond Lin · 3 Feb 2006 at 23:38

The on screen menu only have the screen serial no.

Raymond Lin · 3 Feb 2006 at 23:45

not played games yet, will wack on HL2 in a bit.

Raymond Lin · 4 Feb 2006 at 10:08

Seems like that way, I know i have a /00 model anyway as the sticker on the back of the monitor clearly indicate.

Raymond Lin · 4 Feb 2006 at 11:29

sorry, it doesn't bring up anything at all.

Raymond Lin · 4 Feb 2006 at 11:54

not unless ocuk sents me another as back up

Raymond Lin · 4 Feb 2006 at 13:53

more picies

EDIT - Just noticed that little bit of dust between the letters, phew, thought it was a scratch for a second !

Raymond Lin · 5 Feb 2006 at 01:03

Link?

Raymond Lin · 5 Feb 2006 at 01:33

well, this is interesting.

I did the test on my Acer Al1722 TN panel which is a 8ms panel for certain (I have dual monitor, just dragged it acrossed the desktop.). And the program "sync" at 16ms. Did the same on the Phillips, and it also sync at 16ms.

So either my Acer TFT is a 16ms panel (not likely), or that the program is slightly off since both screen sync at the same response time and that the Phillips is a 8ms panel since it sync in the same time as my Acer screen.

In actual fact, it sync best at 15ms.

Raymond Lin · 5 Feb 2006 at 01:49

Just to make sure that my 17" Acer is 8ms, looked up the model and it appears to be 2 versions - HS model and R model.

I have an R model - Link

So it is confirmed that it is 8ms on the spec sheet, the program suggest otherwise thou.

Raymond Lin · 5 Feb 2006 at 11:00

Richdog said:
Raymond PLEASE do some fast game testing, it's the only thing missing from this thread and the gamers are waiting to hear a verdict on some fast FPS etc!

I'll put on COD 2 now !

Raymond Lin · 5 Feb 2006 at 11:15

Well, 10 mins of that. It took a little getting used to at first, there's just so much more to see and I had to adjust to the more screen size. After a few minutes thou everything clicked, it's fabulous. I am not a great gamer so i don't particularly look for faults like ghosting, but it doesn't seem to be any when i swing the view around and with explosion all over the place.

Raymond Lin · 5 Feb 2006 at 12:46

Watching films on this is great, the widescreen really make it dwarf my 17" TFT.

Here's a 12mb vid at 640x480 which you can see it in action.

Link

Raymond Lin · 5 Feb 2006 at 21:40

ADP said:
I am thinking about getting this monitor, can anyone who has this monitor please tell me if the monitor has an option to display 1280x1024 and 1024x768 resolutions with the correct aspect ratios of 4:3 with black borders (i.e not stretching the picture to fill the screen).

I know that the monitor has a 'fill with aspect ratio' option in the menu system, but I am not sure what that setting does.

Thanks in advance

YES it does !!!

Just changed the res in windows to 1280x1024, and select Native mode.

You get only the center 1280x1024 pixels displaying the image, if you select filled with aspect, it stretched proportionally still with boarders.

This is in native mode.

Raymond Lin · 5 Feb 2006 at 21:50

Native means using only the resolution of windows specified, so it's 1:1, not stretching of any kind. hence 100% sharp.

Raymond Lin · 5 Feb 2006 at 22:06

To display the max resolution, you select "Full Screen" mode.

Native means, native to windows, not native to the monitor.

Raymond Lin · 5 Feb 2006 at 22:26

Yes, since it's only using 1280x1024 pixels to display 1280x1024 pixels. Hence the photo shows boarders, on both sides, and if you look a little closer, there's a small black boarder at the top and bottom, since the monitor has 1050 res verticlally, so there' are 13 pixels at the top and 13 pixels at the bottom that isn't used.

And like i said, it's 1:1. 1 pixel displaying 1 pixel.