Are good 24" Monitors Still Made?

[TidusZ]

I bought a benq fp241w a year or more ago, which has since been discontinued. A friend has a dell 24" that uses a mva panel and is of similar high quality, and has also been discontinued. I look around sites like NCIX and in stores like CanadaComputers and all I see are TN panels with terrible viewing angles and colors that shift and are uneven, with backlight bleeding, etc.

I am wondering, what monitor that is made and sold today would be comparable to the BenQ fp241w? If I'm going to recommend a monitor to someone whose looking for what I got, what would I steer them towards? Is there even an option now? I paid $550 CDN for my BenQ, and my friend recently bought an Acer G24 for $460, and that thing just doesn't hold up at all, even if the horrible backlight bleeding was fixed.

And if there is no new equivalent, how does one go about buying an older mva panel online without getting screwed by dead pixel screens that were rma'd?

 

[0roo0roo]

xbitlabs website has a good amount on lcds... i'm sure they would have it.

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: TidusZ
Are good 24" Monitors Still Made?

It all depends on how much jack you're willing to cut loose of...

 

[Winterpool]

There are still good, even excellent, 24-inch LCD monitors out there... if you can afford them. Round about a thousand (more or less) are the NEC LCD2490WUXi and the new Apple Cinema Display (LED-backlit... but glossy, ugh). These are IPS panels and cost accordingly. A somewhat cheaper IPS display in this size is the HP LP2475w ($600ish).

I was looking at the Dell 2408WFP (Samsung PVA panel) if I couldn't wait to save up enough for IPS, but looking at your video card, I presume you're a gamer, so most PVAs will suffer too much input lag for you (and the 2408WFP seems to be worse than your typical PVA in this regard).

According to one punter on the Hard|Forum discussion of the Dell 2209WA, there may be more e-IPS displays coming soon in the 23 to 24-inch range, so perhaps there will be affordable decent 24-inch monitors soon.

I'll continue saving up for an NEC display myself.

 

[TidusZ]

I'm not actually in the market for a panel atm, I have the 24" BenQ in sig which is mva. I realize that the supposed weakness of mva over tn and ips are input lag and ghosting, but I have never noticed it despite all of my thousands of hours of gaming I've put into it. I'm a reasonably picky critic for monitors, just recently I bought a 22" used from a friend and after getting it home and playing with it I realized the colour uniformity, sharpness, and backlight bleeding were all pretty bad compared to my similarly priced cheap acer 22". I notice the little problems and colour shifts, but I've never noticed input lag at all. Go figure, I guess.

The dell 2408 is $550 USD, that's like 20% more than my BenQ cost me, and if I remember the research I did back when I got it, the BenQ was as good or better and had extra inputs. I suppose this is the monitor to buy now, nonetheless, but I think its safe to say its not an ideal time to be buying a quality 24" panel, if you value your money. The jump between MVA and IPS is pretty minimal compared to the jump from TN to MVA.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16824176104

Yes, but they're expensive

I have the (I'm assuming) similar but smaller HP LP2275w. I love it. Screw TN.