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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
Interesting. Lasereth: anything about this monitor that sticks out to you? I mean, looking at the specs it looks pretty good to me, but I've already established that I don't really know what I'm talking about when it comes to LCDs. It'd be nice to have a couple different opinions on the same monitor. One thing I notice reading the reviews is that it apparently doesn't have a very good viewing angle...what's a good stat to look for on that? If 160°(H) / 160°(V) isn't good, what is?
And what's the deal with the whole dynamic contrast ratio thing? What does that mean? |
The viewing angle is as follows. Let's say that you want a new LCD television, but you have seating at the far right and left of the screen. The viewing angle is how far to the right or left (or top of bottom, though that's not usually a concern) of the screen you can see the picture. 160 is the degrees in h (horizontal) and v (vertical) that you can still see the picture. Considering one is usually planted at 90 degrees when it comes to a computer... well you can tell us how often you compute from the side. Dynamic contrast is for especially dark screen content. When a dark image needs to be displayed a backlight will turn off to decrease the brightness, and the LCD will compensate for other areas of the screen that need to remain bright.