ASUS VS229H-P Questions about Features on this

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I have this monitor. I have some questions about it.

Some features on it confuse me.

What is an IPS?
What's the difference between and IPS and normal screen?

Trace? I understand what it does, but when I turn it to 100 something happens to the picture I actually don't like. Not sure what is going on but this feature I am unsure of how I feel about it's overall purpose.

Overscan and Full?
What's the point of overscan?

How can I make this monitor appear sharper? I am using it of a sager np9150 with HDMI hookup at 1920 x 1080P

I like splendid on the gv55vw. Can I run splendid software on this monitor other then what's built in?

 

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Anyone?

 

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I have this monitor. I have some questions about it.

Some features on it confuse me.

What is an IPS?
What's the difference between and IPS and normal screen?

Trace? I understand what it does, but when I turn it to 100 something happens to the picture I actually don't like. Not sure what is going on but this feature I am unsure of how I feel about it's overall purpose.

Overscan and Full?
What's the point of overscan?

How can I make this monitor appear sharper? I am using it of a sager np9150 with HDMI hookup at 1920 x 1080P

I like splendid on the gv55vw. Can I run splendid software on this monitor other then what's built in?

I'm no expert but I've been researching monitors for quite a bit for the past few months.

IPS is In-Plane-Switching. It's a type of LCD technology that gives true-to-life colour and viewing angles. Currently most screens use TN (Twisted Nematic) screens because they are cheap and give the best response times. But if you view a TN screen at an angle, the colours tend to shift and can even look like they are the negative colours of what the screen is showing. The viewing angles of an IPS screen show the same colours from pretty much whatever angle you see them from, and since most can show nearly 100% of the colour spectrum they deliver better colour contrast and more true-to-life colours. They are used mostly by people who edit photographs and need what's on the screen to look identical to what's in real life.

IPS has the slowest response times, which may lead to ghosting in fast-action video games. And they are expensive compared to TN counterparts. But they can show resolutions above 1080p whereas TN cannot.

I'm not sure what trace is. It might be exclusive to that monitor. You should play around with it until it reaches a setting you like.

Overscan - where broadcast videos are cropped so they don't show the full picture on displays - is there because it used to be around when CRT monitors were popular. That's the only reason. It's useful when broadcasting video converted from analogue to digital, since it stops a yellow outline that would usually be on a CRT (to accurately reproduce images along the edge of the tubes) from showing up.

You can change the sharpness of the monitor if it has that feature or you can increase the contrast.

Again SPLENDID seems to be monitor-specific, so you need to check if your monitor is compatible.

 

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Thanks for the input much appreciated