Seeking flatscreen advice

[Gunhead]

Lo,

I've been thinking of finally ditching my old warhorse 17" tube for a 19" flatscreen. Been reading ratings about them from various magazines and websites and thought to ask you guys for tips as well.

Dunno too much about them but i've picked up that for a good gaming flattie you want good response times and for graphics & image editing soft good contrasts and lumination (?). What i'm looking for is a decent split between these two as i do some freelance work on me home rig, but mainly the emphasis of the screen's performance i'm putting on gaming.

Alienware seems to favour NEC's monitors in the rigs they build, any particular reason to that? So what would you who are better informed about flatscreens recommend?

[Ironman]

I've seen quite some flatsceens and so far the best one I've seen is the 19" from Dell. And it mights sound wierd but it's fooking awesome to watch movies and pictures on due to the vivid colors and contrast. I've also played PS, Farcry and RtCW-Enemy territory on it and I had to look VERY close to see any kind of shadows or flickering.

But it was the quality of movies that really blew me away. I've never seen anything so good. Unfortunately it wasn't my flatscreen, only one I borrowed for an evening and ever since I've tried to get my hands on one. (Has to get work to pay for it somehow. :D)

There are other screens out there that might be better at gaming or better at showing picture but the usually lack either the game side or the picture side.

And again it all depends on the eye that sees. :D

My advice it to go to a store and have them show you a picture, movie and game on their screens. (a bit hard with Dell I know, but belive me it good. :D)

[Gunhead]

Thanks for the info Iron, you mean one like this?:
http://dellware.euro.dell.com/dellstore/dellware/config/default.asp?s=fibsd&l=fi&m=eur&c=FI211&n=&cu=fidhs&v=d&cc=&ogn=&kcd=&ad=&mc=&rs=&cuid=&cg=&pch=1&pn=0&demo=&gc=&sbc=none&co=&b=DFI_200-27384

A workmate of mine told me he could ask his friend who's working in a 'puter store here to get a special price (around 400 euro) for an extra HYUNDAI-L90D+ flattie to go with the package he's buying soon. Know anything about that? Could go and check it at store that one.

Also been looking at Eizo FlexScan L768. Eizo makes excellent quality monitors but they're that much more expensive as well...

[Hovis]

I'm a bit of a luddite when it comes to flatscreens. Unless you really need to minimise the space you're using they simply aren't worth the money. For the price of a good gaming TFT (flat) you can usually get a truly uber flat screened CRT (fat) monitor. Don't fall into the trap of thinking TFTs give a better picture just because the technology is new, fact is that only the very best TFTs have comparable image quality to a flat screen CRT. My advice is to do some price comparisons and consider what you can fit in the available desk space.

[Kali81]

Try the new x-black screens from sony. 12ms, and the best picture quality by far and away.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/lcd19.html its the 16th/17th one down.

Let me say again that this is THE BEST quality screen (picture wish) on the market today.

[One Armed Scissor]

i have a FST monitor it rocks

[Ironman]

Damn you Gunhead. :D

Now you've got me to do some research and I've seen a lot of screen lately. One good thing though is that I convinced my firm to give me this baby, OH YEAH!!!

Samsung SyncMaster 913N 19" TFT
1280 x 1024
160°/160° viewangle
Contrast på 700:1
Intern powersupply
Ekstreme fast responsetime of only 8 ms wOOt!!! :eek: :eek: (Only the fastets one on the marked right now. :D)
Silver design

Oh and yes I've seen in live in game, movies and pictures and WOW!!! *Ironman dropped his jaw*

I'll probably get it delivered next week or so. One thing though. If you buy some stuff on the net in Denmark we have 14 days to return it if we want and buying a tft that is very important. The manufaturers of tft reserve the right for 3-5 bad pixels on tft screens. :( Which I think is crap. And if I get a screen with such an error I'll just return it and get an other one.