VX2435WM first impressions.
I got this thing home and hooked up last night. In my initial checks and messing around - these are my first impressions in particular order:
-There is a panel on the back you have to pop off to access the inputs and/or if you want to use the vesa mounting connection. I was a bit hesitant on popping it off because the limited printed information was kind of vague on it. Just said to take it off. Turns out, it was easy to open the panel.
-The only issue with the inputs - to me at least - is that the hdmi port is too high up. The top of the inset areas where the inputs reside are curved and with the hdmi port being as high as it was - it made it harder than it really needed to be. Maybe i'm just not dexterous enough, but it took me about 2-3 minutes to get that sucker in their. I don't know the design inside the casing, but at least on the outside, there's enough room to move the ports down 3-4" easily.
-This sucker is HUGE. My i'm just used to shorchanging myself or something, i don't know But i've had two CRT's (19 and 17) for the last 6-7 years. Anyhow, this thing is nearly as wide as the two of those combined and it's taller as well.
-I poked around the OSD stuff a bit to see what was there. Seemed straight forward enough to me. I tried the different setups - Gaming looked the best to me off the bat, but i haven't gotten to far into that. Default brightness was a 70 and it didn't bother me too much. I might try knocking it down a bit over the weekend so I don't get sunburn while at the computer.
-Picture quality looks outstanding. I didn't find any dead pixels (thankfully). And did i say the picture quality was awesome?
-Did a little cad. Don't have all my progs reinstalled for the rebuild of mid december still - so that's limited at the moment. There's something major to be said for being able to display an 18"X12" sheet of paper on the screen FULL SIZE though The drawing area is gigantic!
-Ran a little Bioshock demo and WOW! Even though i have an 8800GT - there was a lot more detail in everything than i had thought. Played just as fast as when i ran it at 1280x1024 on the 19" CRT. I did notice a couple things when playing though. One, i'll have to get used to widescreen. I never knew it, but apparenly i like to look up a lot. I noticed myself repeatedly looking up only to find the screen stopped That's on me though and i'll have to adjust. The other thing is I noticed some lag when i'd jerk my view fast. Kicker is, it looks like motion blur to me. In reality, you're eyes can't move that fast in perfect focus - but a computer screen can. Being in animation, the motion blur look is actually more realistic, but it, too, will take some getting used to. And FTR, i'm looking forward to getting used to both things.
So far so good. I can't wait to start playing with the thing more this weekend and doing some basic calibration myself. I can't see spending triple figures to calibrate my colors though. I figure I can eyeball it fairly close - i don't have the need to spend big bucks to get 5% closer. Either that or i'll look for existing color files on the net somewhere. All in all i love this thing so far. 24" at home looks MUCH larger than 24" at the store. It actually makes me worry a tad that the 56" TV i want to get will be too big for the house! Of course, a TV can't be too big right?
And coming from a dual CRT setup, this monitor is not only huge and gorgeous, it adds a second bonus feature. It opens up a lot of space on my desk!
If anyone has pointed questions or things for me to try - just let me know and i'll do what I can. I can stick a movie in my computer to test movie playback (a few avi's i tried looked great - i look forward to trying out a few 1080p trailers this weekend too) - but i do not have a next gen console or external DVD player I can hook up to it. I DO have a dvd player, but it's intertwined into the entertainment center in the living room and I can't easily extract it to test it out.