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d a v e -> new monitor (11/4/2006 14:02:01)

my old crt died yesterday so o'm on a borrowed 'old school' 15 inch crappy monitor, my mate's old one
anyway onto the question:

my budget is very limited and while i always try to invest in the best i can avoid with a wife and 2 kids it's tft screen are NOT priority (at least not in the same way as car seats - for which you could buy a small African country with the same money) so i'm looking at either

a Fujitsu Siemens, Scaleoview T19-2 19" TFT (reduced from 399 euros to 229)
or
Acer AL1916AS 19"

pretty similar specs but not sure about the 'names' i assume the Fujitsu is (probably) made by someone else anyway?? also is there anything i need to look out for as far as connectivity goes?

of course if i lived in America i could probably pick one up for less than a hundred bucks, but for those of us that live in the second world i can only get what's available ;)

thanks for any recommendations - i'll be ordering something tonight as i can't wait and i'll post back as to what i ordered so you know not to post after that with recommendations ;)

btw the specs are here but in finnish http://www.netanttila.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=1444&catalogId=1444&shopId=19651&compartmentId=10021&categoryId=28166&productId=175638
http://www.netanttila.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=1444&catalogId=1444&shopId=19651&compartmentId=10021&categoryId=28166&productId=180793






jaybee -> RE: new monitor (11/4/2006 14:22:03)

I've got this one. My second Phillips flat panel and it great. Good prices too

OH has got the HP vs19x. Apparently he needs a bigger screen than I do. [&:]



d a v e -> RE: new monitor (11/4/2006 16:13:54)

well i'm just going to pick one or the other f those two as there isn't a huge choice. are connections standard btw?



BobbyDouglas -> RE: new monitor (11/4/2006 20:15:36)

Acer monitors have pretty good quality. With monitors, rely more on their name than the actual specs. A monitor from a good brand is usually better than one from an unknown brand with better specs.

I suggest grabbing a monitor with DVI, the difference is amazing. If your video card has a DVI input, you will see a huge difference. If it only has VGA, then you can use a connector that changes the DVI to VGA so you can plug it into your video card. (If you use the connector then the signal will no longer be DVI, and thus won't look as good as a DVI signal).

If you are 100% sure that you will never have a DVI video card, then don't spend the extra money to grab the DVI version.



jaybee -> RE: new monitor (11/4/2006 20:18:47)

Both the moniitors I mentioned are plug and play. They do come with their own driver disks though for tweaking settings and colour output.



d a v e -> RE: new monitor (11/5/2006 2:21:27)

sounds like the acer it is
- thanks for those other 2 jaybee but not everything is available where i live /online so i get what i can plus i can pay for them monthly which is handy after forking out a load on my car last month :)

colin macrae rally, er i mean dreamweaver/FW is going to look cool on it!



d a v e -> RE: new monitor (11/5/2006 2:54:44)

update: the Fujitsu Siemens is DVI (DVI-I, D-SUB) and my card radeon 9200 has dvi connector so i will go for this one instead then if the display is so much better

thanks!



jaybee -> RE: new monitor (11/5/2006 6:04:14)

When it arrives check it carefully for dead pixels. They usually show up as tiny white specs. If you have more than two send it back.



d a v e -> RE: new monitor (11/5/2006 6:51:15)

yeah i heard about those - was just wondering how many was acceptable... i'll see where they are and how many ;)



jaybee -> RE: new monitor (11/5/2006 7:11:21)

I've had 3 and I've never a dead pixel on any of them. OH had one that arrived with one, smack bang in the middle of the screen. It drove me nuts.

We got onto the manufacturer and they said they only take back anything with three or more dead pixels, anything below that is considered acceptable.



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