My first computer screen was 14” CRT, which had a nice curvature of a medium-sized primary school globe and had a horrible anti-radiation (!) coating attached on the front. The originally white plastic had picked up a yellow tint rather quickly and if you were to rotate it a bit it produced a nasty cracking sounds so loud, it could wake your neighbours opposite the street. Ah, good old times.
Over time things had improved gradually and I moved through several CRTs to 15”, 17” and finally 19”. The 17” and 19” ones were flat screen, which locked like the picture was concaved a bit at first.
When I was a teenage my parents gave me my first LCD – Samsung T191 19”. It was by far not the first LCD on the market, but it was 19”, which was pretty cool. I still remember how huge it looked and how expensive it was (thanks again mum & dad
). I played Neverwinter Nights on it, the scene in the autumn forest and it image looked like it had “trails”, which at that time I had no idea why.
Then there were a lot of LCDs big and small, with a modest size growth over the years. All of them were used for games mostly, as well as a bit of moving and, of course, browsing. And now, more than a decade later I owe a 26” TN Samsung screen with some rather horrible colors and ridiculous viewing angles.
And so recently I have set off on finding and ultimate screen quest. I have been reading millions of reviews and opinions, searching and trying, looking and playing. Gradually I have managed to condense a list of I want my ultimate screen to be. If you are curious what that is that I want:
- 27-30 inches
- 16:9 aspect ratio
- 2560 x 1440 + resolution
- LED backlit
- Non-TN matrix
- Thing bezels
- 120Hz refresh rate
- DVI + HDMI + VGA + DP + Component inputs
- Built in card reader
- Built-in webcam + mic
And without inventing anything alien, it turns out my ultimate screen does not exist! Simple as that!
Over time things had improved gradually and I moved through several CRTs to 15”, 17” and finally 19”. The 17” and 19” ones were flat screen, which locked like the picture was concaved a bit at first.
When I was a teenage my parents gave me my first LCD – Samsung T191 19”. It was by far not the first LCD on the market, but it was 19”, which was pretty cool. I still remember how huge it looked and how expensive it was (thanks again mum & dad
). I played Neverwinter Nights on it, the scene in the autumn forest and it image looked like it had “trails”, which at that time I had no idea why.
Then there were a lot of LCDs big and small, with a modest size growth over the years. All of them were used for games mostly, as well as a bit of moving and, of course, browsing. And now, more than a decade later I owe a 26” TN Samsung screen with some rather horrible colors and ridiculous viewing angles.
And so recently I have set off on finding and ultimate screen quest. I have been reading millions of reviews and opinions, searching and trying, looking and playing. Gradually I have managed to condense a list of I want my ultimate screen to be. If you are curious what that is that I want:
- 27-30 inches
- 16:9 aspect ratio
- 2560 x 1440 + resolution
- LED backlit
- Non-TN matrix
- Thing bezels
- 120Hz refresh rate
- DVI + HDMI + VGA + DP + Component inputs
- Built in card reader
- Built-in webcam + mic
And without inventing anything alien, it turns out my ultimate screen does not exist! Simple as that!
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however its very much a TN panel (not that its a big deal IMO unless your doing high end media production).