Originally posted by: dpopiz
I do a lot of a web programming and design, so I kinda need a double-duty monitor: fantastic color accuracy, and sharp and easy on the eyes for coding.
What are my best bets for 19" under $350?
Originally posted by: deadseasquirrel
Originally posted by: dpopiz
I do a lot of a web programming and design, so I kinda need a double-duty monitor: fantastic color accuracy, and sharp and easy on the eyes for coding.
What are my best bets for 19" under $350?
Diamond Pro 930sb for $199 + shipping
refurb.
I have bought 2 from them so far. A 22" 2070SB and the 19" 930SB. Both are perfect in every way. I plan to buy another 930 soon.
Originally posted by: Synon25
The dp930sb is definately worth the 199 shipped. It is one of the best monitors i've ever owned. I just got one and it's so good i'm considering getting another one. Considering they are pretty much doing away with crt monitors, you should grab onto one of these while yous till can
Originally posted by: dpopiz
Originally posted by: Synon25
The dp930sb is definately worth the 199 shipped. It is one of the best monitors i've ever owned. I just got one and it's so good i'm considering getting another one. Considering they are pretty much doing away with crt monitors, you should grab onto one of these while yous till can
There's one thing I've been worried about though with the 930sb - I've been using a .20mm dot pitch CRT for several years (samsung 700IFT), so I'm afraid the .24mm dot pitch will seem really large and grainy.
Also, I've never owned an ap. grill monitor myself (such as the 930sb is), but I've seen them at other peoples' houses, and it always seems like the shape of the dots is kinda annoying. See, on a shadow mask monitor like I'm used to using, the dots are circular, so no matter what resolution you're running at, each pixel is a group of a few ciricles. But with an ap. grill monitor, the dots are square, same as pixels, so if you're running a resolution where the pixels aren't the same size as the dots (basically any resolution), the pixels are split into various rectangular sections in an irregular pattern. To me, that makes things really hard to read since it sort of makes some pixels larger than others, and a lot of times a line on some text will fall right on the division between dots, making the line sort of "faded" between the two.
Do you know kinda what I'm trying to describe?
Originally posted by: Naustica
Originally posted by: dpopiz
Originally posted by: Synon25
The dp930sb is definately worth the 199 shipped. It is one of the best monitors i've ever owned. I just got one and it's so good i'm considering getting another one. Considering they are pretty much doing away with crt monitors, you should grab onto one of these while yous till can
There's one thing I've been worried about though with the 930sb - I've been using a .20mm dot pitch CRT for several years (samsung 700IFT), so I'm afraid the .24mm dot pitch will seem really large and grainy.
Also, I've never owned an ap. grill monitor myself (such as the 930sb is), but I've seen them at other peoples' houses, and it always seems like the shape of the dots is kinda annoying. See, on a shadow mask monitor like I'm used to using, the dots are circular, so no matter what resolution you're running at, each pixel is a group of a few ciricles. But with an ap. grill monitor, the dots are square, same as pixels, so if you're running a resolution where the pixels aren't the same size as the dots (basically any resolution), the pixels are split into various rectangular sections in an irregular pattern. To me, that makes things really hard to read since it sort of makes some pixels larger than others, and a lot of times a line on some text will fall right on the division between dots, making the line sort of "faded" between the two.
Do you know kinda what I'm trying to describe?
Your Samsung 700IFT doesn't have .20mm dot pitch. .20mm is only for horizontal. It actually has .24mm diagonal dot pitch which is same as pretty much all other monitors. It's just that Samsung tries to be deceptive and sneaky and quote their dot pitch using horizontal values when everyone else uses diagonal dot pitch. Usually Samsung will just list dot pitch as .20mm. Deceptive and dirty practice if you ask me.
Originally posted by: Synon25
Yeah I think I understand what you are trying to describe. However I haven't really noticed what you are describing. I've used both types of monitors, and spare the damper wires I haven't really noticed anything different about it that would concern me. However your eyes may be more sensitive than mine so it's hard to say whether you'd have a problem with it or not. I guess check the site and see if it can be returned. If it can then i'd say give it a shot.