Best 17inch Flat Panel LCD for Games/DVDs ???

[PwAg]

I notice a lot of you are for the majority worried about gameplay and 3d. Say you weren't (as I am)...would you feel confident to say that these latest and greatest LCD's are superior in 2d in every way compared to a CRT such as a Sony G500? I'm audio engineer, and all my software requires sharp text and images (little knobs/granuals etc on the interface software). I work on Apple Cinema displays at work...you think a Viewsonic V191B is comprable in picture quality performance? It would be great to have a 19" LCD running for just under a G.

 

[azkiwi]

I can't speak to the Sony, but I can say that for me, the VG191 is superior to my Viewsonic G790 in 2D in most ways. Greater legibility at higher resolution, equivalent color and vastly superior ergonomics.

Colors seem 'off towards blue' in a few places - but it may be that I was seeing them 'wrong' before. The 191 comes with color calibration software. Contrast and differential shading is better than my CRT - I can clearly see grays on the LCD that were not distinguished well on the CRT. Some CAD stuff is not quite as good as the CRT - long fine lines look a bit jaggy, but then the CRT wasn't resolving lines this finely either. It's not bothersome enough to make me go over to the other desk and use the CRT anyway!

 

[rockhard]

Ive just swapped out my old NEC 1550V 15" TFT for a pair of NEC's 1550M 15" TFT's and the difference in picture quality over the older 1550V is amazing
Now my picture is really sharp, whites are white, not the old off white due to the dimmer back lamps. Colours are so true that my Iiyama 451 19" CRT is redundant
If any of you guys are rooting through this thread and looking for a great TFT i would highly recommend the NEC 1550M.
My old 1550V had a brightness of 200 cd/m2, contrast of 300:1, 30ms pixel refresh (black-white-black).
The new 1550M's have a brightness of 300 cd/m2, contrast of 450:1, 25ms pixel refresh (black-white-black).
One thing i also noticed about the 1550M is that if i open Media player and try drag it around the desktop i cannot get it to blur no matter how fast i drag about.
Funny thing is the pair are running off an Elsa GF2MX PCI Twin head with Analogue inputs and the sharpness of txt etc is superb.
I have seen TFT's running DVI before so am surprised how this Analogue input can be just as good IMO FWIW.

Hope this info may be of some use to somebody.

rockhard =)

 

[badga]

are LCD's are superior in 2d in every way compared to a CRT ....

i understand that the biggest issue is with color matching that any graphics designer would need with thier day to day work. Precise colors that a CRT can handle for tasks like prepress are off with a LCD. I only read this in other posts, i like the colors on mine for normal person work.