Trying out a Mirai

[Technoid]

haven't decided yet if I'm keeping it or not

22 inch widescreen 1680x1050, 5ms

My 19 inch crt is to the right.

[rylan]

Never heard of Mirai before, but I do know Chimei. CMO is a major LCD manufacturer... they make a wide variety of panels from cheap to high quality. As far as their monitor manufacturing goes though, I'm not impressed.

Check the viewing angle... from the specs I'm suspicious that its TN technology glass, which means color inversion and nasty contrast at off angles... particularly up/down.

[Technoid]

yup, wieving angle is pretty crap, but I've newer understod the needs for viewing the screen at an angle, I mostly sit infront of my computer when I work at it.
atleast it don't have that new kind of plastic that most new laptops have.

[rylan]

Yeah whats up with the plasticy garbage they're sticking on laptops now... yuck!

Viewing angle depends mainly on your purpose. As you said, if you're sitting directly in front of it then it shouldn't be a problem for you. The main thing to be careful is that as the displays get larger and are widescreen, the left/right sides can end up looking different than the center due to the natural viewing angle from being centered to the screen. But at 22" you should be OK.

[Technoid]

You'd think they go for "Anti-glare" but that shit is like a mirror.
The reflexes in it is bad when you are inside, outside on a sunny day, it would be terrible

[dZeus]

TN is complete crap for pivoting, due to the above mentioned vertical viewing angle problem (tried it with my Samsung 172X panels, and it's BAD).

You might want to try a PVA panel with pivoting functionality: it's really nice when reading documents/websites! Otherwise, if you managed to hold out with a CRT up to now, I'd wait just another 2-3 years. By then we hopefully get nice OLED screens, or at least nice panels with LED backlights.

[Technoid]

TN is complete crap for pivoting, due to the above mentioned vertical viewing angle problem (tried it with my Samsung 172X panels, and it's BAD).

You might want to try a PVA panel with pivoting functionality: it's really nice when reading documents/websites! Otherwise, if you managed to hold out with a CRT up to now, I'd wait just another 2-3 years. By then we hopefully get nice OLED screens, or at least nice panels with LED backlights.

2-3 years is ages in the computing world, and I'll be doing a lot of dvd mastering this summer so I need the extra screen size (The 19 crt could only handle 1152x864).

As with the Quad, I'm getting it practically for free

I've tried gaming on it and NFS:MW is smooth and nice on it (sadly not at native res since the game don't seem to support it )

C&C3 is amazing at native res

haven't had a chance to test out HD will do when I get home tonight.

[Evildead666]

If you could give us a shout about colour image quality compared to a CRT that would be great.

Basically, do you think you are seeing all the colours of the DVD or HD-source, when compared to a CRT ?

Personally, I still reckon we don't have the full colour palette on LCD's as we had on CRT's...
(edit: either that, or we all have to calibrate the LCD monitors to get good colour...)

Jez

[DGhost]

You'd think they go for "Anti-glare" but that shit is like a mirror.
The reflexes in it is bad when you are inside, outside on a sunny day, it would be terrible

You know, you'd think it would be horrid.. but it usually isn't.

If you are looking straight at the panel, most of the time light is being reflected *away* from your eyes (ie, down, left, wherever) instead of illuminating the surface. It actually offers much better contrast in brightly lit rooms.

That being said... You do sometimes catch reflections from things behind you, but... it all comes down to angle of incidence and where you place your screens versus light source...

[The PIT]

You know, you'd think it would be horrid.. but it usually isn't.

If you are looking straight at the panel, most of the time light is being reflected *away* from your eyes (ie, down, left, wherever) instead of illuminating the surface. It actually offers much better contrast in brightly lit rooms.

That being said... You do sometimes catch reflections from things behind you, but... it all comes down to angle of incidence and where you place your screens versus light source...

I tend to find the reflections annoying and it's sort strange that they've gone back to having screens that have awful glare.

I wouldn't have one to be honest as it would just annoy the shite out of me after a bit.

[Technoid]

If you could give us a shout about colour image quality compared to a CRT that would be great.

Basically, do you think you are seeing all the colours of the DVD or HD-source, when compared to a CRT ?

Personally, I still reckon we don't have the full colour palette on LCD's as we had on CRT's...
(edit: either that, or we all have to calibrate the LCD monitors to get good colour...)

Jez

I haven't noticed any difference in colour...