Buying a monitor very soon!

[Kurt]

They have better and worse models -like all the manufacturers. Usually the Pro versions are OK, but you're never safe from a lemon...

I got bored of trying to find which was their good model and which was not...

[The PIT]

Originally posted by TransformX
AFAIK Iiyama make pretty decent monitors (speaking of the diamondtron ones).
You can verify it going to www.pcpro.co.uk and reading their reviews.

Sadly not so theres wide variance between models. The Mitsubishi tube as is overrated from what I've seen.

[GNEP]

I'm convinced that Iiyama cherry-pick the monitors they send out for review VERY carefully. Hence they always get top-notch reviews but users aren't always quite so impressed...

[The PIT]

I've also noticed with iiyama that with age the image will drift on the screen and have to be reset after several hours of use. Next time you switch it on the resulting drift may not be the same.
I've had several do this on me while a NEC monitor I've also got plods on happily.

[dZeus]

Iiyama user here..

I get the 'drifts' The Pit is talking about (in vertical direction), and I'm suffering from ghosting on my monitor, which appearantly everyone that owns my model monitor also suffers from (VMPro 454).

My advise: stay away from anything branded Iiyama. If you want a nice aperture grill monitor, get a Mitsubishi branded one using their own Diamondtron ^2 tube.

[thop]

Once you go TFT you'll never look back!

[dZeus]

unless when you play FPS games with high motion like quake, CS, etc

.... or need accurate colour representation for use for stuff like Photoshop

[Admiral]

16ms response time, 500:1 contrast ratio and using DVI is supposed to (partially) fix that.
Still not considering TFTs for now, though.

[thop]

Sorry dZeus, but that is not true anymore. I've seen various good TFTs and you can play CS and other games even better than with a CRT. Color calibration may be true, but i prefer vivid colors over washed out CRT colors any day

Try it out someday, you will never go back. All that is being said about TFTs was true maybe 5 years ago.

[az]

EIZO has some TFTs with hardware color calibration for pre-print stuff, btw.

Oh, and I own 2 Iiyamas. The newer one, a VM Pro 452 (I think it was their cheapest perfectly flat model), is bad. Poor image quality (might be the video card though), forgets size/position settings for some res/refresh combinations, and beeps at high res/refresh. It's giving me a headache. The old one, though, is a Vision Master Pro 17 from feb '97, and it's fabulous! Still sharp, even in corners and at 1152x864, no size/position problems, etc. It's been on for ~6 hrs/day every day I have it now.

AZ

[UtwigMU]

I'd also disadwise Iiyama.

CRTs became pretty limited in choice.

Mitusbishi 930SB is good and somewhat pricey and lacks dual inputs. (553€ here)

A step up is Eizo 19" CRT (723€), that has similar specs and has dual inputs.

Bellow that are Samsungs - good price performance and reasonable quality (276€).

WRT to TFTs: The ones fast enough and with color calibration are great, but not cheap.


I'll be buying 1 or 2 19"s next month and I'm still inclining towards Mitsubishi 930SB BK (black cabinet).

[GNEP]

to Samsung CRTs - in my experience very good "bang for the buck"