22" for £200?!

[letdown427]

Overclockers UK

Belinea 2225S1W 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black/Silver

The Belinea 22 25 S1W is the first MAXDATA screen with a wide format 22". Users looking for more horizontal space on their screen will be delighted with this monitor. Websites are displayed better because you no longer need to scroll from right to left working on wide film sequences is easier and it is also possible to display various applications on the screen at the same time. The very fast 5ms response time and integrated speakers make this display perfect for multimedia use. Featuring the latest panel TN+Film offering unbeatable visual quality and performance making this LCD monitor ideal for gamers and performance users.

- 1680 x 1050 (WUXGA) Optimum Resolution
- 16.2 Million Colours
- 1000:1 Contrast Ratio
- 5ms Response Time
- 300 cd/m2 Brightness
- One Analogue Input
- Integrated Speakers
- Warranty : 3 year on-site warranty supplied by Manufacturer (Call Belinea direct for all support and RMA issues on 01344 788920)

Arriving Friday 20th October 2006

Price: £199.99 (£234.99 Including VAT at 17.5%)

Anyone got a Belinea monitor? lol. Probably meant to compete with Dell's new E207FPW maybe?

 

[Ulfhednar]

Belinea monitor are usually quite nice IMHO.

 

[Peter]

Belinea is a well established brand here in Germany. Yes they do have "cheap" and "pro" product lines, but I have yet to see "too cheap" from them.

This is just the wake ... November will bring us a tidal wave of cheap 22" LCDs from every brand you can think of.

 

[letdown427]

Originally posted by: Peter
This is just the wake ... November will bring us a tidal wave of cheap 22" LCDs from every brand you can think of.

For want of a better phrase, O RLY?

 

[Peter]

Rly.

Just look at the ton of results you get from the usual pricegrabber engines. V7, Viewsonic, Asus, Belinea, Samsung, Yakumo, Acer, HP, Iiyama, Mirai ... they're all taking preorders for 22" widescreens, prices ranging from a hair below 300 euros to a hair above 400. Est'd delivery for all of them is mid-November.

 

[tuteja1986]

Chimie was the Company that started the Title Wave of 22" LCD :! I have Chimie 22" and i am a proud owner ... it doesn't bleed like my Lazy Bibo Dell 2045FPW does.

 

[letdown427]

I can see mid November seeing me wave goodbye to some £'s then

 

[Peter]

For lack of a better phrase, me too.

 

[Avalon]

I want to see a non TN based 22".
*hopes*

 

[betasub]

No DVI on a 22" screen

I know it's for the budget market, but is DVI really an expensive optional feature? How big a screen does it need to be before DVI becomes a standard feature? :disgust:

 

[Peter]

Oh, amongst those I named, there are several models that do have DVI alright. Mirai and V7 are the ones on my shortlist, and they both have VGA and DVI. Acer offers versions with and w/o DVI, and I'm sure more of them do have DVI.

 

[betasub]

Peter: thanks for pointing out the upcoming DVI 22" panels. I was aware of the Acer (already have a 19" DVI panel from the xx2x series, as opposed to their analogue-only xx1x series). I'll be price-tracking some of the DVI panels you've listed...

 

[letdown427]

I'll be keeping an eye on that Mirai one, and the new Dell E207FPW, even though it's 'only' 20"

I'll post any reviews if I find them. Hopefully they should be cropping up soon.

The main 'problem' with TN panels is that they're only 6bit panels isn't it? As they all seem to have a good response time.