NVA ?

[BlueRain]

OK, i see this mentioned quite a few times "MVA panels ".

I give up.

Please explain what it means as i will be buying a LCD screen very soon.

Thanks so much

Debra

" Soon My Friend , Soon...."

 

[flamethrower205]

Multiple Vertical Alignment. It's how the pixels are managed, and I won't go into the details on exactly how it's done cause that'd be pointless. Bascially it's supoosed to off more robust picture and better reponse time, and better viewing angle. Both of teh latter it does, but has trouble w/ gradients so I reccomend against it. What size LCD are you looking for?

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[BlueRain]

flamethrower205,

Thanks so much for taking the to respond : >

I would like a 18 inch ,but i'm trying to keep it under $1000.I know that will be hard if i want one with good specs.

Thanks again : >

Debra

" Soon My Friend , Soon...."

 

[GoSharks]

MVA panels do not suffer from gradient problems as Flamethrower keeps saying.

MVA panles are excellent and I highly recommend them. Many popular brands, Viewsonic, Princton Graphics, Cornerstone and Planar all use MVA panels and they get rave reviews by the people who really know these products.

Look at these links for reviews of MVA panels.

http://computers.cnet.com/hardware/0-2295747-404-6844302.html?tag=st.co.2295747-405-6844302.dir-pdov.2295747-404-6844302

http://www.myelabs.com/reviews.asp?name=1335


Jim Witkowski
Chief Hardware Engineer
Cornerstone / Monitorsdirect.com


Jim at http://www.monitorsdirect.com

 

[BlueRain]

What is considered a good " refresh rate"?

Lower or higher numbers?

Thanks

Debra

" Soon My Friend , Soon...."

 

[flamethrower205]

I reallydo not reccomend them cause I had an MVA a few months ago and it sucked. Reviews even state they have problems, as I pointed out in earlier thread. You don't want to take a risk when buying an LCD, and going for MVA imp is stupid. BTW BlueRain, you do realize an 18" LCD is equivalent of a 20" monitor, and a 17" LCD is equivalent to a 19" monitor. Keeping under $1000 for an 18" that's really good will be hard.

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[GoSharks]

Just because you had a single monitor that you did not like does not mean all monitors made with MVA technology are poor or have problems. There are a number of things that can cause gradient problems the most likely being the video card or simply running at low color depths rather than the LCD panel itself.

General statements like these are simply short sighted. Like saying I had a bad dinner at a restaurant thus all restaurants must be bad. I have reviewed many MVA monitors and they simply do not exhibit the gradient problem you keep accusing them of. The reviews I read state "Consistent color across the screen, plus high brightness and contrast ratio for a stunning image".

BTW a 19" CRT typically has a viewable area of 18" diagonal.

LCD monitors do not suffer from flicker so refresh rate is not an issue. On CRT monitor higher is better.


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[GoSharks]

Anyone interested in MVA technology should read the folowing link.

http://www.dustin.se/viewsonic/MVATechBrief2.pdf

Jim Witkowski
Chief Harwdare Engineer
Cornerstone / Monitorsdirect.com


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[flamethrower205]

I used a VP150M and didn't like it cause of teh badning of colors, even though it was set at max color depth on teh vid card. Another person noticed this too on the VP150M, as have reviews of it. I have seen the same problems with other MVA LCD's, hence why I don't like MVA. Go ahead and reccomend it, just that from what I have seen, it's not good, and I will reccomend against it.

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[GoSharks]

Again just because a single monitor had an issue, does not mean monitors from other manufacturers will have the same problem.

BTW learn how to spell "the"

Jim

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[flamethrower205]

I said that I have seen others that use MVA that have teh same problem, hence there is a trend.
PS: Does it matter that when I type I press the e before the h when spelling the? I don't see a problem.

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[GoSharks]

If you want to post the examples fine, but lumping all monitors into the same category based on one or two model that a single person has seen hardly shows a trend with other makes and models. I have reviewed over 100 different makes and models using MVA technology and I do not see the trend.



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[Oni]

NEC Makes a pretty nice 18.1 inch LCD panel that can be had for about $850 including shipping. The "LCD1830" model has pretty good specifications.
200cd/m^2
300:1 Contrast Ratio
160 Degree viewing angle
30ms response time
and does do 1280x1024 @ 75Hz
The only downfall is that its analogue only so if you really want Digital this isn't the monitor for you, but if you only have an analogue video card this would be a pretty nice choice simply from the specs. On www.pricewatch.com you can find this for $810-820 and then throw in $30 shipping and its not bad at all.
And flamethrower205 I have a Hitachi CRT 19 inch right now and its 18.1 viewable. 17.1 viewable isn't that much of a loss though, I've compared an 18 inch and 17 inch flat panel side by side and almost couldn't notice the difference.