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hanguker · Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Location: Korea

Hey all,

Have you checked the LCDs on danawa.com, lately. There are like 50 different brands to choose from with prices ranging from 210-900 000W for a 17" 8ms monitor. How can I know what to buy? Their specs are all the same and most have a nice looking ad. I'm looking for the cheapest with the highest quality. What would be the best choice? Are their any review sites of these relatively obscure brands? Any good/bad experiences?

Cheers

Giant · Joined: 14 May 2003 Location: South Korea

Well, I bought some real cheap LCD's for my office... The brand was "Power Lab" and so far it seems like an okay brand. I have also bought LG and they are also good. Oh and I also have bought Phillips before and again, no complaints.

It all depends on how much you want to spend.

muggie2dammit · Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Location: Ilsan, Korea

Giant · Joined: 14 May 2003 Location: South Korea

Yes, I was also very suprised with the quality of Powerlab. It was bright and the color looks good too.

I have a dual monitor going with a 20' LG and a 17' Powerlab and I must say that the Powerlab looks better with colorful pictures.

The Lemon · Joined: 11 Jan 2003

Those "50 different brands to choose from" aren't really, inside. Inside them are LCD panels from one of a very small number of manufacturers, including LG-Philips and Samsung. It's too advanced a technology for there to be mom-and-pop LCD screen factories. That's why the specs are the same.

The only thing to really be concerned about is the reputation of the company that markets the panel inside their monitor to help you if you have a problem. Three years ago I bought the cheapest fake-name LCD monitor in Yongsan I could find (but really a Samsung inside) and it died three days after I got it home. The monitor company couriered a new one to me within a day.

Buy the cheapest one you can find, so long as the specs are decent, it looks good, the deal's legit with a real warranty and the company's still in business to honor it.

BigBlackEquus · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 7:57 pm Post subject:

Buy cheap, but keep in mind that Samsung and other companies often unload the dead-pixel screens on other manufacturers at a discount. That's what I heard, anyway.

I had the best luck by simply going to Yongsan and finding a style I liked, and that I liked the color/look of, then buying that.

I prefer a glass monitor to the somewhat cloudy anti-glare screens. Some people hate the glare of a glass screen. It's all about what you like and where you will have it (glass screens aren't good close to windows).

Another interesting point is that the eye/brain adjust to an image. You sort of get used to a screen and don't realize subtle things. If you are playing games, and rely on certain VERY subtle changes in the screen, then your brain is searching at a different pace than if you are just using it for staring at a screen/text/web page.

So don't overspend for performance unless you need to.

hanguker · Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Location: Korea

I like to play fast-paced FPS games. I think I need a low response rate [sic] of 8-4ms. Any spec. recommendations so that the games like Quake 4 will look at least as good as my CRT?

Hollywoodaction · Joined: 02 Jul 2004

hanguker · Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Location: Korea

Thanks for the input hollywoodaction! I've figured 8ms would be enough to prevent ghosting. Have you had an opportunity to see the game on both a CRT and an LCD? Anyone have any other good/bad experiences with 8ms. Nowadays, 4ms seems to becoming more popular. Any real, humanly detectable difference between the two?

Hollywoodaction · Joined: 02 Jul 2004