New Monitors

Thanks Stefan!

It's sad that the LP2275w doesn't have a bit more pixels to go full HD or else it was a no brainer in my case.

If you could get them at good price, worth ot have look:
NEC P221W, Eizo 2232/2231

My mistake. Sorry!

I just ass-u-me'd (:roll it was a SIPS like the 20.1" which I have, & the 24" which I've used.

About 4 to 5 years ago I moved from an Iiyama CRT to a Sony SDM-HS95P Flat Panel Monitor.
The Sony is first rate and I would recommend it.
Sony Spec: 450cd/m2, Response 12MS, Contrast 1000:1, Viewing Angle 170 degrees, DVI.

Here is a small list, many monitors have already being mentioned though link

More good info. Of course when all these items are tested by magazines and so on it becomes very difficult to make a judgement as they are hyper-critical.

Nothing is perfect, but I think we have a good choice of very acceptable ideas here.

Now to choose.....

John will you let us know what you go for and do a small write up for it

I myself have a HP 2475 24" wide-screen (1920 x 1200) at home. but now looking for a new monitor for the studio.

James

This link says it all! But as he alludes to, and is frquently overlooked, a CRT starts to degraded the day it is turned on, so anything over 3 years is no longer the colour it once was due to exposure of the phosphors.

So if you can't afford the new "Colour Correct" NEC's you could always consider doing what some video people do, see reply, and have a small CRT alongside your mid-price large LCD just for colour correction. Obviously easier for video that's not usually greater than HD res, but it's an idea.

While you are right about the magazine reviews (isn't every magazine and every enthusiast guilty of this in their own field? ) the manufacturer's stretch of the truth on specs is deplorable. On many of the lower price panels they have been caught declaring 6-bit + dithering as 8-bit panels!

John,
I have been using a Samsung 173T monitor for quite some time now, and I'm very satisfied. No calibration at all, but it shows a decent display on all test pictures I've tried. And the colours match the prints I have ordered.

These monitors are reasonable, and they have a veru good viewing angle (178 x 17.

I have just received the first Dell 2209WA Black monitor, and it's just perfect. When we got the new computers it was obvious that the CRTs were getting old and struggling a bit, and now this new brilliant 1680x1050 image is jst superb.

We'll be ordering the second on tomorrow - I know when Sue sees this against her CRT there will be no contest!

Many thanks for all the advice, which proved to be spot on. Great forum this!

Agreed. And a lot is due to your own contribution, John

...just to make you jealous...




(things you find in the loading-bay at 5am... so no need to point out any crap photography!)

p.s.
I've not got one of thouse, but I do have a Hazro 30" (no longer available sadly as cost about 1/2 what Apple charge for the same panel!).

Well flossie, clearly you take your film watching very seriously!