Is this a good monitor, bitches?

Sol · Post by **Sol** » August 21st, 2009, 17:20

Due to being the first one in my family to go to uni, my parents have decided to buy me a new monitor (hooray!)

I'm looking for something with the best res and contrast for the price with VGA, DVI and HDMI for PC/Mac/sexboxing... That will fit in the 52cm hole in my desk. After a look around and a gander at some reviews this seems to meet my needs pretty well: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/160282

However if anyone knows of anything better in the same price range I'd be grateful

Lee · Post by **Lee** » August 21st, 2009, 17:49

That's probably fine. But in that price range I'd go for this one: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/149977

BenQ usually make really good monitors. Ignore the contrast ratios, they're all lies. The contrast of every single monitor will be around 1000:1 at best. What they list is dynamic contrast which is a completely useless feature where they turn the brightness up and down depending on whats on screen. You'll probably want to turn it off to stop it annoying you.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » August 21st, 2009, 17:54

I'd take benq or samsung over LG (hell, I'd take a PC world special over LG)

Lee · Post by **Lee** » August 21st, 2009, 18:05

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:I'd take benq or samsung over LG (hell, I'd take a PC world special over LG)

Their high end stuff is good, most high end monitors use either LG or Samsung panels but their low end is mostly meh.

Sol · Post by **Sol** » August 24th, 2009, 17:15

Hummm. According to a number of reviews the BenQ has a few problems with motion blur, which considering i'm going sexbox it might prove a bit annoying.

I was looking at the ViewSonic VX2260wm, which at the moment is £151.99 on amazon and seems to have got pretty good reviews: http://www.trustedreviews.com/monitors/ ... Monitor/p1

But I'm still on the fence.

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » August 24th, 2009, 17:45

All my BenQs had at least one dead pixel (by that I mean always lit/unlit R/G/B subpixels) cluster. It's not all that annoying if it's around the edges, but once you notice it won't stop bugging you. Although knowing me, it's probably just my luck.

Sol · Post by **Sol** » August 25th, 2009, 11:17

Right, going for the viewsonic, £145.06 at dabs

Sol · Post by **Sol** » August 27th, 2009, 20:54

Got it all set up this morning, excellent monitor, no dead pixels, would recommend