Originally posted by: xtknight
So your choices change to: Samsung 193P+ and ViewSonic VP930.
It's PVA, but I'd stick with the 193P+ for now since it got a good review from X-Bit and I haven't heard anything about the 940Fn. Then again, who knows what THG will have to say about its overdrive? I still do think the THG results for the 970P were screwed up, or the way they judge RTC error is way too strict. I've heard many happy 970P owners.
The 193P+ is even more expensive at a whopping $600 versus the $550 970P, and it still dithers! Are you sure you don't want a true 8-bit 20" widescreen like the VX2025WM instead? (It sounded like you were looking at 19" only.) The Samsung 215TW is the best for graphical work but the VX2025WM is a good balance too (the 215TW may be a tad slow for your tastes). Both use no dithering and are true 8-bit panels. If there is anywhere you can check the 215TW out, I recommend you do that and if you find the response time acceptable, go for that. If not, you would surely be happy with the response time of the VX2025WM. It won't be as high-contrast, but still above average.
Ah, just wanted some stuff cleared up and your help is greatly appreciated.
I have idd only been looking at 19" since I heard that 20"+ WS monitors had problems with some games, back bleeding (or something like that, I'm not sure what it is) and their native resolution seems insane (I'm used to 1024*768 @ 17" CRT) but after I read what you wrote I went checking up on that and it seems that they don't seem to have to much of a problem with games atleast. I've read up on the VX2025WM monitor you talked about and the NEC 20WGX2 aswell. Both seems to be good. However I'm a bit worried that it will be a bit of a strain on my eyes adjusting to everything being so small at native resolution.
They seem to need quite a bit of settings of colors and whatnot until they look that good tho and the NEC is a bit big and not to pretty to look at. Not that I would choose design>performance but if two monitors are just about equal you can bet I want to go with the one that I'm not annoyied with looking at.
The 193P+ price doesn't bother me much, just to clear that up.
Since this is my first TFT monitor, I hope there would be some change even if I decided to go with a 19" instead of a 20"+ WS eventho it might be a stupid decision.