TN panels ????

[western]

Can one of you experts please advise me how when looking through PC Monitor descriptions, I can tell what is TN panel or not??

Trying to pick a new monitor.

Thanks

 

[MauveCloud]

Easy. If the viewing angles are listed as 170/160 or even 160/160, the monitor uses a TN panel. If the viewing angles are listed as 176/176 or better, it's probably a VA or IPS panel.

 

[western]

Thanks MauveCloud, until today I never heard if it!!

 

[western]

Best answer selected by western.

 

[petersmith_81]

Also, you may touch the screen. If it shows a water wave pattern, then, it is a TN panel.

 

[cjl]

Also, you may touch the screen. If it shows a water wave pattern, then, it is a TN panel.

I wouldn't recommend pressing on any LCD panel hard enough to distort the image.

 

[MauveCloud]

If you suspect the specifications are bogus, you can carefully lay the screen down flat instead of vertical so that you can view it from a direction that would normally be below the monitor (more than 170 degrees from perpendicular to the screen). If it darkens and inverts colors, you've got a TN panel. That's probably safer than pressing the screen.

 

[cjl]

Agreed. That's probably the single most obvious sign of a TN - IPS and VA panels do not invert the colors from any angle, while TN inverts at large viewing angle, especially from what would usually be below the monitor.