Four Wide Screen 19" Monitors Compared

[bgerber]

Wide-screen 19-inch monitors are everywhere. They're less expensive than standard-format 19-inchers and are becoming the entry-level standard. Why are they so cheap? How good are they?

 

[Hose]

1. Widescreens are smaller than 5:4 or 4:3 of the same diagonal, and

2. The manufacturers of panels claim they get better yield from blanks, so less waste.

 

[torque79]

I'm surprised he said widescreens look larger? was that a typo? ever seen a 14 or 15" widescreen laptop? they look TINY.

I completely disagree with that part, completely untrue. the format is certainly pleasing to the eye, but it by no means looks larger, in fact quite the opposite. my old 21" crt looks significantly larger to the eye than my 22" wide screen.

I also have to say I'm a bit surprised they reviewed 19" monitors. For a marginal increase in price, the 22" seem much more worth it. I bought an LG, but the Acer one is only $330 canadian. WoW looks so awesome on a nice widescreen.

 

[Hose]

I'm surprised he said widescreens look larger? was that a typo? ever seen a 14 or 15" widescreen laptop? they look TINY.

I completely disagree with that part, completely untrue. the format is certainly pleasing to the eye, but it by no means looks larger, in fact quite the opposite. my old 21" crt looks significantly larger to the eye than my 22" wide screen.

I also have to say I'm a bit surprised they reviewed 19" monitors. For a marginal increase in price, the 22" seem much more worth it. I bought an LG, but the Acer one is only $330 canadian. WoW looks so awesome on a nice widescreen.

Read slower, Dude... you got it backwards.

 

[Hose]

I'm surprised he said widescreens look larger? was that a typo? ever seen a 14 or 15" widescreen laptop? they look TINY.

I completely disagree with that part, completely untrue. the format is certainly pleasing to the eye, but it by no means looks larger, in fact quite the opposite. my old 21" crt looks significantly larger to the eye than my 22" wide screen.

I also have to say I'm a bit surprised they reviewed 19" monitors. For a marginal increase in price, the 22" seem much more worth it. I bought an LG, but the Acer one is only $330 canadian. WoW looks so awesome on a nice widescreen.

Read slower, Dude... you got it backwards.

 

[torque79]

I confess it's badly worded and hard to understand exactly what he meant, but below lines made me think he's trying to say widescreen, though smaller, visually looks bigger?

First of all, a 19-inch wide-screen display has only 14% more viewing area than a standard-format 17-inch, whereas the visual impression for the user is out of all proportion with the difference.

what does out of all proportion mean???

 

[Hose]

I confess it's badly worded and hard to understand exactly what he meant, but below lines made me think he's trying to say widescreen, though smaller, visually looks bigger?

First of all, a 19-inch wide-screen display has only 14% more viewing area than a standard-format 17-inch, whereas the visual impression for the user is out of all proportion with the difference.

what does out of all proportion mean???

No. Widescreen IS smaller..one of the reasons it's cheaper. Personally, I don't favor widescreen... but I'm not a gamer.

 

[boinged]

What's up with the latency chart for the Asus PW191? It looks similar to the comparison VX922 but the text says it sucks "reached 25 ms in the worst case". Wrong chart graphic?