Any 19" for £190 isnt going to be quality Kna is after quality, hence looking at two £200 17" monitors, or a very high quality 19" (£400-£500)
Actually, my budget is only about £250-300 .. however I'm strongly considering saving up more and going for the better options. Issac, thanks.. your advice is well heeded. Any thoughts on the Vision Master Pro series? 'They' rate that quite highly.
Iiyama are well rated....I've just always felt that iiyama weren't quite up to scratch when I've used them (extensively, since my department at uni is kitted out in nothin but iiyamas), except for the one that my housemate at uni had (late 411). The thing is that Iiyama's AG monitors use Mitsubishi, and my feeling is that mitsubishi know better how to use their own tubes than a third party manufacturer ever will. Same goes for sony tubes. The other thing is with the mitsubishi tubes themselves, which have traditionally been variable pitch. The purpose of variable pitch is to avoid darkening at the sides of the image, but it is perfectly possible to make a normal aspect ratio screen with a constant pitch. Sony only resort to variable for unusual models, such as the FW900 24" widescreen model. Since the Sony G420 falls outside your budget, I think the best picks in the 19" category are the Iiyama VM454 and in particular the Mitsubishi DiamondPro 920. A lot of OEM machines use the 920 (mesh, amari, people like that), because it is a very good screen. The VM454 has more available bandwidth, but at 108kHz the 920 has enough, and the only graphics cards which can realistically work beyond 108kHz are the radeon 8500, Matrox G550 and Matrox Parhelia. 108kHz is the same as my Sony E500, and gives a resolution of 1600x1200@85Hz. The 920 also offers a constant 0.24mm dot pitch, as opposed to the 0.25 of the iiyama (which may be variable). And to gcotterill...Please, come off it. I've had cheap monitors. I've had poor monitors. I am a photographer, so visual quality is something I'm acutely aware of (I get annoyed with the ghosting inherant to NVidia graphics cards for example), and cheap monitors just do NOT cut it. They don't have the contrast, brightness, sharpness or adjustability for serious use. I usually have my Sony between two ADIs in a triple-head setup, and the sony REALLY shows up the ADIs, and the ADI 19" was one of the better 19s of its day (way back when shadow masks ruled the roost, and the hitachi EDP tube astounded us all with its 0.26 constant dot pitch). The sony is worth every penny of the £640 I paid for it, and probably the best investment I ever made in my computer. Since I bought this screen, I've had 5 different CPUs (K6-2 366, Celeron 433, Celeron 633@792, Duron 800@1035, Tbird1400@1633) and many graphics cards (Diamond Fire GL1000Pro, Creative TNT2 PCI, Creative GF2MX, Herc GF3Ti200, Appian Graphics Jeronimo Pro), and yet the monitor still shines as a high-point of my system.
What is wrong with a 19" LG logix monitor 0.26dp. Looks fine to me. Does all my grahics needs and looks crisp. EDIT: I think it was about £230 but I got a discount.
Put it next to a top of the line mitsubishi or sony, and say that again and mean it. I don't think so. What is happening here is the "quality" effect. If you've not owned a much better monitor, you don't miss what you've not experienced.
Fair play Isaac. I'm not to worried about a brillent dp. To me It looks good. LG are reliable (well all the stuff that I have had has lasted). It's better than a ****ty Sampoo 19" monitor at the same price. I havn't had a better monitor than this one, the last one I had a was a Daewoo which hada 3 year warrenty, thank god for that becasue it blew up twice and buggered up a further 3 times.
Would you mind giving me a few details on your Daewoo? I happen to be using one right now WHat exactly do you mean when you say "blew up", and what model was it? This is a 905D.
Sepherus when I say 'blew up' it mean and I quote myself and my Dad: Me: "OH bugger, ****, f**k, ah crap, NO. Dad I need a RMA form, theres smoke coming out of it!" Dad: "What! Get the fire extingisher, quick." Me: "Damn, its happend again, I really must stop doing that." Fourtuantly my dads now using the Daewoo (the one that has worked for the last 2 years which was replaced), the models the 1511BN, its the unbranded version, which means no Daewoo written on the front. although I had the same problem with the next model up, sorry can't remember that model number. I do know it is not he one you are using. I try to stay clear of Daewoo's now, has anyone else had the same problem?
Uh oh lol, thanks for the warning. Sounds like a dodgy one off to me, but I don't trust this one anyway. I only bought it because it was cheap and it came with a 3 year warrenty. New plan of action Get a job, sell this, and get a top of the range Sony 21" Thanks again, ~Sepherus
Wasn't just one. It happened to 2 of um. The other 3 just went. Had 5 monitors in less than 2 years. Still got the sitxh and it works. Nice idea bout the sony 21" Sweet, me might save up as well.
5! Maybe I'd better get a move on before this one goes ;P Damn damn damn, still not 16 for another month. All this holiday time being wasted :/ Anyone care to reccomend a very nice 21" btw?
I have a Daytek, which is believe is also a Daewoo.. I got it from Scam when they were knocking them out for under £200. Hence wanting to upgrade I think I'm going to go with a decent 19" now, I think I'm far too used to the space. Just need to save up the pennies! Cheers guys (Isaac esp!).
Ok, I know it's a little further down the line but, due to a rather terminal monitor death on Saturday my new DiamondPro 920 will be arriving tomorrow Cheers for the advice Isaac, looking forward to it being as good as you say!
Very nice monitor indeed.. it'll take a little time getting used to the wires in the screen, but then I guess everyone does. Not done much with it yet, but compared to what I had, the clarity is outstanding and it's nice having a screen which doesn't look like a fishbowl
within a week or so you wont notice the lines. what you will notice is other peoples fingerprints. GAHHHHHHH. get your mits of my mitsubishi. anyway. i would recommend a mitsubishi to anyone else also.
NO ONE puts their fingers on my monitors. I keep them (especially the sony) uber-clean, because the dust is noticeable, and fingerprints are a nightmare. Finger-print smears are the worst, resulting in a blurry line, that no amount of adjustment with the moire control will remove....
