http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236100 Asus VE228H 21.5" Full HD HDMI LED BackLight LCD Monitor w/Speakers ASCR 10,000,000:1 Only 140 bucks right now on NewEgg... pretty stoked... Tell me what you think...
we sell em at work ... dont sell to many of em because people do not know the company asus but they make some great products
ASUS is primarily a motherboard manufacturer, but in the past few years they have branched out into things like LCD monitors, sound cards, and other things. Asus tends to make some of the best home motherboards. Everyone knows their P67 chipset motherboards have been the best. They also make pretty good AMD motherboards. ASUS makes REALLY great sound cards, the best ones you can get right now. They also make some pretty nice monitors. ASUS monitors are usually some of the cheapest in price, but still look really nice and have good quality. Definitely better than Acer, but not as nice as HP in my opinion. But if I had to choose the best LCD makers, I would have to say Samsung, HP, and ASUS. I do have to say though, that contrast ratio is BS. But even still, it will be a pretty high real contrast ratio and still look very nice.
Yeah I am upgrading from an LCD monitor that has a 3000:1 ratio and 19" reg monitor.. Comes with DVI cables and everything so no more adapters!!! YAY!!! lol... Anyways.. I am pretty stoked for it, so it should be here roughly tuesday or wednesday I would imagine
But is that gray-to-gray or black-to-white ratio? Sometimes these ratios are sold as gray to gray cause the "higher numbers" look better to your average consumer.
I got the 23" version of that monitor. I personally do not regret it, no dead pixels, crisp picture and an overall great gaming monitor. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...&cm_re=asus_23_monitor-_-24-236-079-_-Product
taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Response_time_(technology) Response time is the amount of time a pixel in an LCD monitor takes to go from one value to another and back again. It is measured in milliseconds (ms). Lower numbers mean faster transitions and therefore fewer visible image artifacts. Older monitors with long response times would create a smear or blur pattern around moving objects, making them unacceptable for moving video. Long response times can be annoying to a viewer depending on the type of data being displayed and how rapidly the image is changing or moving. Many current LCD monitor models have improved to the point that this is only seen with extreme contrasts. For an LCD display, typical response times are 8 to 16 ms for black-white-black, or 2 to 6ms for grey-to-grey. The response time was traditionally recorded at the full black > white transition, which became the ISO standard for this specification on LCDs. Grey transitions are far more common in practice but in terms of pixel latency, they remained significantly behind the ISO transition. In recent years there have been a wide range of Response Time Compensation (RTC) / overdrive technologies[2] introduced which have allowed panel manufacturers to significantly reduce grey transitions. Response times are now commonly quoted in "GTG" (alternately but less commonly "G2G," both meaning "grey-to-grey"[3]) or "GLRT" (meaning "Gray Level Response Time"[4]). There are various names used for RTC technologies, and these vary from one manufacturer to another. Terms such as ClearMotiv (Viewsonic), AMA (BenQ), MagicSpeed (Samsung) and ODC (LG/Philips) are widely used to identify RTC enabled displays. With a CRT the response times are much faster, and CRTs do not have the same problems with smearing or ghosting. The same is true for plasma displays. However, older CRTs and plasma displays can have problems with flicker at any refresh rate, and even newer ones can at refresh rates less than about 80Hz. LCD screens with a slow response time are often unsuitable to play fast paced computer games. A worst-case response time of <16ms is sufficient for video gaming, and the difference between response times once below 10ms begin to become hard to perceive due to limitations of the human eye. [5] [6] The pixel response time is often confused with the LCD input lag which adds another form of latency to pictures displayed by LCD screens. An LCD screen with high response time and significant input lag will not give satisfactory results when playing fast paced computer games or performing fast high accuracy operations on the screen (e.g. CAD). Manufacturers only state the response time of their displays and do not inform customers of the input lag value. To address input lag, some modern televisions will offer some sort of "gaming mode" where the TV passes the signal through with minimal processing to minimize any potential image lag.
^^^^ I know response time is measured in ms, what I was saying was that I thought gray-to-gray stuff was measured for response time, not for how the contrast ratio gets rated. how would you rate a radio from one gray to a slightly different shade of gray as 10,000,000:1 anyway? I thought it was contrast ratio was measured as brightest white to darkest black. Static contrast ratio is the rating with the backlight set at a specific setting, and then measured for brightest white and darkest black. Dynamic contrast ratio settings are measured with the backlight set at its brightest and then measured for white, and then the backlight is turned all the way down an measured for its black setting. None of this gray stuff for contrast ratio.
http://www.practical-home-theater-guide.com/contrast-ratio.html This is a great read on the contrast game. Engima has it pretty much down.
I miss CRTs. It was so much easier buying a TV or monitor when all you had to really worry about was price,size and maybe connections.