same old question sombody please ease my pain :)

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Hi

I've decided to update my monitor from a CRT to a LCD. I've done some reading and decided on a 20" WS. Looking at the Viewsonic 2035wm or Belina 102035. My main use is going to be office work(word, mail and internet) or gaming.

I'm aware these two TFts both use the same panel (MVA). I've noticed its not the most favored monitors on here although seems to do well in reviews.

I've narrowed my choice down based mainly on the panel, good color reproduction, good viewing angles and good contrast. Halfway house between IPS and TN.

Am I on the right track here ?
Is there another monitor I should checkout ?

TIA.
 
Maybe the 2007WFP? It's over £300 at the moment but the price seems constantly be going up and down, there's bound to be a Dell sale at some point over Christmas/New Year too I would have thought.

Seems like it excels at everything you'd be using it for, my only reservation has been that apparently it's movie playback is less than stellar and I'd be using it for that a lot.
 
Emp.Man said:
Maybe the 2007WFP? It's over £300 at the moment but the price seems constantly be going up and down, there's bound to be a Dell sale at some point over Christmas/New Year too I would have thought.

Seems like it excels at everything you'd be using it for, my only reservation has been that apparently it's movie playback is less than stellar and I'd be using it for that a lot.
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Is there still a problem with dell changing the panel depending on their stocks (http://www.behardware.com/articles/619-6/updated-survey-13-lcd-20-5-6-8-16-ms.html), not too sure I like the idea of that.
 
shine said:
The Belinea 2225S1W might also be worth considering if you want to stay within budget.
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isn't that a TN+Film panel, which wouldn't be a good quality as the MVA (or so I've read) ?
 
I'd be tempted to stretch the extra for full-on S-IPS "opticlear" goodness courtesy of the NEC 20WGX2! The colour, contrast and especially the viewing angles are fantastic. No weak points.
 
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derm said:
Hi

I've decided to update my monitor from a CRT to a LCD. I've done some reading and decided on a 20" WS. Looking at the Viewsonic 2035wm or Belina 102035. My main use is going to be office work(word, mail and internet) or gaming.

I'm aware these two TFts both use the same panel (MVA). I've noticed its not the most favored monitors on here although seems to do well in reviews.

I've narrowed my choice down based mainly on the panel, good color reproduction, good viewing angles and good contrast. Halfway house between IPS and TN.

Am I on the right track here ?
Is there another monitor I should checkout ?

TIA.
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I'd say that's a good summary really. I'm not sure i agree with this current trend of people loving S-IPS and moaning about MVA/PVA, but will save that for another thread :) If you've narrowed it down between the VX2035WM and 102035W then I'd suggest the Viewsonic might edge it slightly since it has more accurate colour reproduction out of the box, and so you might benefit from that unless you have a colorimeter tool.
 
Baddass said:
I'd say that's a good summary really. I'm not sure i agree with this current trend of people loving S-IPS and moaning about MVA/PVA, but will save that for another thread :)
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Feel free to go into it in this thread, I'm positively crying out for someone to make a case for VA :)
 
As someone who has been complaining about movie playback on the 2007WFP, I'm finding it's actually not all the monitors fault. If I play a DVD through PowerDVD/WinDVD through windows, it does look quite nasty, but if I use my 360 through VGA, the same DVDs looks just fine, so I think it's the scaling and decompression of the software decoders that's mostly to blame. The screen does bring out more noise than say a CRT based TV though.

Black depth and detail in dark area aren't strong points on the 2007WFP though, I'd say that's it's main weakness. I would hope MVA/PVA do better in this area. The Dell is nice and quick though.
 
I've wondered about that when people talk about noise in movie playback on LCDs, regular DVDs are always going to look noisy at high resolutions even when scaled well with something like ffdshow. I'd assumed they must be basing it on playing back HD videos since that's a bit more fair.
 
AAAAAAAGGGH !!!

I know I said Viewsonic 2035wm, of course EVERYBODY knew I meant the Viewsonic 2025wm....

Didn't they ?

:eek: :o
 
derm said:
I know I said Viewsonic 2035wm, of course EVERYBODY knew I meant the Viewsonic 2025wm....

Didn't they ?

:eek: :o
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well i was talking about the 2025WM since you'd mentioned P-MVA. The 2035WM is using TN Film :)
 
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