LCD Buying Guide - Aged article but useful

[Envy 64Ht]

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THE CHOICE OF PANEL TECHNOLOGY

The panel technology is very important because they have different advantages.
Depending on what you want to use your LCD for, you have to choose the panel
technology. For general word editing, there are no big differences but for movies,
gaming and graphic work there are big differences. It should be very easy to see
if you can compare the different panel types at a shop
(I recommend an Apple store if you want to see an IPS).

# IPS: S-IPS, H-IPS etc. are improved versions of the basic IPS technology,
but it boils down to just marketing speak because they can be seen as different
generations of IPS technology (one replaces the other). This technology is
optimized for graphic work like image editing, website design etc. and it is
excellent for those tasks as well. But it doesn’t do as good in movies as the
VA technology because of the weaker black values. NEC did manage to do a
very fast IPS 20” Widescreen that is excellent for gaming but generally these
displays are the slowest of the 3.

# VA: PVA and MVA are basically they same and often you see other letters
added but that again is marketing speak. This is the technology for good all-round
displays that excel at movies.

# TN: Also called TN + film, but there are no TN panels without film left. The only
application where they are better than VA or IPS displays is gaming, because the
fastest displays are from this category. The biggest drawback are the bad viewing angles,
which means that colors change fast depending on the angle you look at them.
Additionally, they have a limited color range which makes them useless for graphic work.
If you go for the TN tech because price is a constraint and not for gaming think about
saving up for a cheap VA LCD first.

Unfortunately, today manufacturers try to hide the panel technology,
mostly because they are using cheap TN panels. To find out which
panel technology a monitor has you can check the databases at
digitalversus.com and prad.de, linked below.

www.digitalversus.com

Prad.de

More info here ..

[istoryanimo]

Question? ... the less response time ( e.g. 2ms ) the better ? mag-agad ba ang type sa video card?

[Envy 64Ht]

Question? ... the less response time ( e.g. 2ms ) the better ? mag-agad ba ang type sa video card?

The better if your into games alot. di sad na mag agad sa vcard.

[EarlZ]

TN panels are know for their response time but they are not native 2ms, they are 5ms panels with acceleration features such as "RTA" from Samsung ( different names from different brands ).

[nirdle_phogi]

weei. tnx for this..

[Envy 64Ht]

weei. tnx for this..

no problem.

[wakiki]

bro, asa ta makapalit ug LCD nga mas cheaper pero nindot ug quality?
ako man gud ilisan ako CRt kay mo karat sya ug kalit...

[moz_k2]

Naa nman pud ka idea kung TN panel ba ang LCD depende sa price.

OT
currently working on an IPS project.

[Envy 64Ht]

bro, asa ta makapalit ug LCD nga mas cheaper pero nindot ug quality?
ako man gud ilisan ako CRt kay mo karat sya ug kalit...

if quality lang bro, daghan kaau. if cheaper, then ull have to consult the shop for that.
get the most out of your budget.

[Envy 64Ht]

Naa nman pud ka idea kung TN panel ba ang LCD depende sa price.

OT
currently working on an IPS project.

just click the links privided bro. naa silay comparisons and product information. pede ra nimo ma search
by panel, brand etc. daghan ka options. usually lower response times (gaming lcd's) are understood
as TN panels.