What's your viewing angle like?

[Lysander]

I have a Dell 2208WFP. Not bad, but you have to look at it pretty much dead on for it to be perfect. If you look at it a slight angle you'll see a kind of light red creep in on the side of the monitor furthest from you.

As well as this, if you stand above the monitor, the picture looks very different from straight on.

According to reviews this is a very good monitor with a very good viewing angle [160/160]. Is this normal? It's the first time I've had a widescreen monitor so I have no frame of reference.

 

[YoungBlood]

Virtualy none existent. Im running the Dell E248WFP TN panel so I expected it, was'nt expecting it to be quite as bad as it is, although I was warned so my fault.
Like you, have to sit dead center, and as there is no height adjust, a catalouge was needed to improve the picture quality

Also have quite a nasty back light bleed from the base of the panel, wrecking movies at the minute, hoping it will "bed in" as it's new. Will see how it goes.
My eyes are also killing me, have the brighness on 0 and a very low contrast and it's bearable now, also helped cancel out the bleed slightly.

 

[Tombo]

Pretty good really, I've got a W240D-PVA, slight lightening when you look at it from extreme angles but the colours stay about right and don't notice any tints or darkening.

 

[philjohn]

According to reviews this is a very good monitor with a very good viewing angle [160/160]. Is this normal? It's the first time I've had a widescreen monitor so I have no frame of reference.

160/160 is not a "very good viewing angle" the reviewer obviously didn't know what he/she was talking about. 160/160 is the viewing angle you get on TN panels (which the 2208 is) and TN has the worst viewing angles of the three panel technologies. Viewing from anything but dead centre will see colours shifting - but unfortunately TN is almost all there is in the 22" form factor (except for the very rare Lenovo l220x which is a Samsung S-PVA panel). TN also has the added benefit of faster pixel response times by a few ms, and are much cheaper to buy in monitors.

As for viewing angle, I have to get to extreme viewing angles until I start to see a change, and even then it's just a slight darkening - that's with an IPS panel which is held up as having best viewing angles of the three and I paid a lot more for this than a 24" TN panel.

 

[Hutch]

I think i must have crap eyes or something.. I got a 24" TN cause I decided i didnt want to spend the earth on a monitor and i liked the looks of this one Have to say I dont notice any colour shifting at all.. I have to turn the monitor around about 30-40 degrees away from me before i notice the brightness appears to diminish but colours still look fine..