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(B1) MR_fanny Grand Master

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So im in the market for a 24" or 26" monitor.

Can anyone recommend me anything? My old monitor and lcd tv are samsung and so im leaning towards the brand again.

will be mainly used for graphics work, modeling and video editing as a docking station for my laptop. One thing that is a must is not having stuff stretched out on all those wide screen monitors Ive been seeing lately. I just want a true increase in realestate for all my app menu's.

Any feedback much appreciated

Cheers.

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BenQ 2400WD (24"), perfect and it was just over $300.

You can get a similar model (16:9 though, so widescreen, mine is 16:10) from www.pccasegear.com - $319, delivery is around $15-$20.

But then if your doing graphics and so on that depends on critial super monitors, a $300-$400 24" is not what you want, your looking @ near double.

Mayuri Krab Grand Master

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But then if your doing graphics and so on that depends on critial super monitors, a $300-$400 24" is not what you want, your looking @ near double.

+1, if you are using your monitor to do serious graphic editing work, then you are looking for a LCD that has a 8bit panel instead of the mainstream 6bit TN panels. Basically the 8bit can display a lot more shades of different colour (I read somewhere the 8bit can do ~94% of the NTSC colour spectrum compared to the typical 75% of mainstream monitors).

So im in the market for a 24" or 26" monitor.

Can anyone recommend me anything? My old monitor and lcd tv are samsung and so im leaning towards the brand again.

will be mainly used for graphics work, modeling and video editing as a docking station for my laptop. One thing that is a must is not having stuff stretched out on all those wide screen monitors Ive been seeing lately. I just want a true increase in realestate for all my app menu's.

Any feedback much appreciated

Cheers.

Just to be sure, you want a monitor that can do 1:1 pixel mapping? I.E. if you throw a 4:3 image to the screen it won't stretch it out to itself default aspect ratio (16:10 or 16:9?) but will instead keep the image at 4:3 with black bars on both sides?

The high end Samsungs & high end Dells both have this feature & are both 8bit panels. But they cost like $700+ for the 24" models.

(B1) MR_fanny Grand Master

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Man that links gonna take me a while to get through..ha. thanks That benq sounds like a bargain.

thanks fellas for the input. i did abit more research into montiors after i posted and S-IPS or H-IPS pannels are the top dogs but by the looks of it they cost an arm and a leg..lol the one that keeps on popping up is the NEC 2490 but I can't seem to get a price on it but im guessing $1500 which is still abit overkill for where I'm at. Isnt it always the case that you want the best but your wallet pimp slaps you back to reality.

I'm not doing any graphics for press or videos for production so I think i can get away with just a TN pannel for now i guess, its more the increase in screen realestate that I'm after cause all the menu's on these programs I use take up a fair bit of space.

Mayuri: yeah something like that. Pretty much what my 19" is displaying but with a couple more inches in space around for me to work with if that makes any sense so no black bars.

So what should I look out for in terms of "native resolution and scaling" courtesy of the link which would probably answer my question if i read further, in terms of getting a monitor that won't "stretch" the desktop and give me true or close to 1:1 images....just native resolution or is there a particular ratio?

Gonna have to read more into colour gamut me thinks. And here i thought buying a new monitor would be easy.

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You mean running a resolution thats not the monitors native?

The BenQ 24" is 1900x1200 native. So running that wont 'stretch'. Even then most programs will scale ok.

If its not business critical, the BenQ (im using it now) is about the best bang for the dollar. Next step would be the IPS Panels but as you said, they are $$$.

Spending an extra $100-$200 on a 24" that at the end of the day is a TN panel, i dont think is worth it, as its only ever gonna be a TN

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yeah ive now accepted that im not gonna get anything super crash hot for my budget..ah well. As long as its decent and reliable that'll do me. Your right about BenQ, those prices are pretty darn good.

Think ill drop by harvey normal some time and have a look at some in person to get a better idea.

Thanks for the input guys

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