LCD Round-up

TheKillerBee writes "The TechReport has posted a nice comparison of several different LCDs. A plethora of benches are present to help you decide how to spend that Christmas bonus check!" The screen update times still aren't fast enough for gamers, but they still are ever so delicious.

Comments

I'd hold off

[Jack Wagner]

We should see some major improvements in LCD screens mid part of next year as the new USBII.v video I/O bus comes out. It' not commonly known but the LCD monitors are actually limited by the throughput coming off the video card bus as the speeds are limited by the half-duplex nature of the connection into the monitor. They use a pretty sophisitaced full-duplex emulation which works pretty good, but you can see the colors are not quite as sharp and the vertial scan rates are limited which makes the whole LCD experience look a little washed out.

This will change next summer when the new spec gets implemented and we see a true full-duplex communication between the monitor and your video card. Of course the monitor people are advertising this as they won't sell any monitors until it's released but I can assure you Aug. at the latest you'll be seeing the big press releases start to come out.

Warmest regards,
--Jack

Re:Don't bitch about lack of Apple LCDs

[LoudMusic]

*THINK*, then post. Did you notice the "HD" in the model name? It stands for "High Definition" - this display has a native resolution of 1920x1200 pixels. Perhaps that might be the reason for the pricetag? Did you know that a comparable Sun 24" LCD (365-1414) costs $4,500?

Yeah, and you know what?

IT WASN'T REVIEWED EITHER!!!

Thank you for your thoughtless post ... maybe you should try that whole "thinking" bit before you post.