So how do we get one for $200 ?
I wasn't sure if it had option to do either 1:1 or scale for 4:3 - guess it supports both. I thought the blacks on the hp was very good but the blacks on my old 2001fp kind of sucks (it is not one of the goods one - i believe there was a panel switch at some point).
I wasn't sure if it had option to do either 1:1 or scale for 4:3 - guess it supports both. I thought the blacks on the hp was very good but the blacks on my old 2001fp kind of sucks (it is not one of the goods one - i believe there was a panel switch at some point).
Originally posted by: ZetaEpyon
Originally posted by: you2
But they currently cost $300
Couple of questions:
How solid are the blacks? One of my 'complaint' with non-ips monitors is that the blacks are pretty weak (esp at night - i.,e, low light in the room) (the hp i tried had solid blacks but lousy backlighting).
How good (even) is the back lighting - esp in the corners which tend to be a weak point ?
How well does the monitor handle 4:3 images (one of the reason I prefer 20inch but can't find anything good right now).
Thanks!
The blacks are pretty good to my eyes. A far cry better than my old monitor, but it's always going to be a matter of perception. I do think there is a little bit of black crush with the settings I have right now, but might be able to reduce that with an ICC profile or better calibration.
The backlight is really even, I have not yet noticed any significant issues with that. It probably would have been most noticeable in the 2nd image that I posted. Since it's a 4:3 video, backlight issues would have been pretty noticeable on the left and right sides.
I think it handles 4:3 just fine, but I'm not really sure what you mean by that. Obviously, it pillar-boxes, but I think you can also set it to stretch the image if you had, say, a game console or something hooked up to it by DVI.