If you're curious like
we are about how
Asus' PW191
widescreen 19-incher handles itself in the real world after you've returned the first two or three on its dead-pixel
guarantee, we've got good news: Tom's Hardware took a very long, in-depth look at it. After the praise and adoration
for it being possibly "the best looking monitor available," (which we might have to take issue with --
Dell's new biz ain't too terribly far behind
Apple's Cinema Display industrial design these days),
they found it suffered from some insensitive buttons (aww), a glare filter that messed with the picture, and generally
not so amazing panel performance. So sure, you could plunk down the $400 for a display with a 1440 x 900 resolution,
600:1 contrast ratio, 330cd/m2 brightness, 8ms pixel latency, and VGA and DVI inputs -- or for even less you can snag a
larger, better specced, higher res
Dell 2005FPW on sale, or its
successor, the
2007WFP. Just saying, is all.
posted April 23rd 2006 10:22PM
Hey good post, was wondering about that... but also I THINK there is a typo! your link for the Dell 2005FPW actully leads to your search box for "Dell 2004FPW " Just a little typo when you made the link, but Ithought I would point that out!
Call me crazy, but I just don't like the intermediate resolutions. Because HD content will either be 1280x720 (or less, vertically; if it is true theatrical aspect I think it's more like 1280x538 or something, but I digress) or 1920x1080, I just don't want a monitor that doesn't have the right horizontal resolution.
Why, you may ask?
Because most modern monitors will scale correctly ONLY IF YOU HAVE THE RIGHT HORIZONTAL ASPECT. Black bars on the top and bottom of the image are no problem for my 17" flat panel - at native 1280x720 rez, it just doesn't use the pixels above and below.
I have yet to see a monitor that does this horizontally. I am willing to deal with black bars, but scaled HD content is a no-go. Maybe it's just me, and maybe I haven't played with enough monitors - but I would never want one that didn't have a horizontal resolution equal to one of the hi-def formats. 1280 just doesn't divide into 1440 very well, and in the scaling you will lose quality (or end up playing the movie in a window, which sucks compared to fullscreen.
I would be much more inclined to like these in-betweens if they supported pixel-for-pixel horizontal scaling like my monitor already does (vertically) for smaller resolutions.
Just my 2 cents ...
Josh, I'm hearing you about intermediate resolutions. It annoys me that the current crop of LCD HDTVs are utilizing some crazy 1366*768 resolution that can't display anything natively.
Having said all that, this monitor would be useless for a dual-screen setup. You're looking at about 6 inches of space between screens because of those speakers.
What's this LCD review a while back?
Deja Vu...
I'm sorry, but there's no way this thing looks better than an Eizo. The thing does dither 18 bit color, after all. You've gotta love the sensationalism over at Tom's.