- Jan 9, 2010
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Best Buy is having a sale on monitors and I was thinking of picking up a 27" monitor if I could find a decent one at a good price. I do mostly photo and video editing so a lot of screen space is always welcome. I have two 23.5" Acer monitors on my Asus GTX 750 Ti OC video card.
Here's what I'm looking at. Both monitors are $199 and 1920 x 1080 resolution:
LG 27MP33HQ - This monitor has an IPS panel which is great, especially for photo editing. 5ms response time, which is good for an IPS monitor. It only has HDMI and VGA input which is not so good, but I have an HDMI port on the video card so it's not a big problem. I can't find a lot of information about this monitor, that's making me a little uneasy. The manual mentions "HDMI incompatibility", which may mean when using VGA and HDMI at the same time and says if the picture is "flickering" to change from 1080i to 1080p. Those two things are definitely a factor. The reviews I could find were pretty favorable. One year warranty.
Acer S271HL DBID - This one is a TN panel monitor with 6 ms response time, which is a bit slow, but the games I play work fine on the 5ms Acer monitors I have now and I doubt I will see a difference with 1ms. VGA, DVI and HDMI inputs, that's good. Seems there is a 30 pixel clipping issue with BluRay, but I don't use them, so it's not a major issue. Acer monitors are well known, this one seems to have lots of good reviews. Three year warranty.
Having a 27" IPS monitor would be great, but the unknowns with the LG make me a little nervous. Acer monitors have always been good to me, but the slow TN panel compared to the IPS is a factor.
What do you think?
Here's what I'm looking at. Both monitors are $199 and 1920 x 1080 resolution:
LG 27MP33HQ - This monitor has an IPS panel which is great, especially for photo editing. 5ms response time, which is good for an IPS monitor. It only has HDMI and VGA input which is not so good, but I have an HDMI port on the video card so it's not a big problem. I can't find a lot of information about this monitor, that's making me a little uneasy. The manual mentions "HDMI incompatibility", which may mean when using VGA and HDMI at the same time and says if the picture is "flickering" to change from 1080i to 1080p. Those two things are definitely a factor. The reviews I could find were pretty favorable. One year warranty.
Acer S271HL DBID - This one is a TN panel monitor with 6 ms response time, which is a bit slow, but the games I play work fine on the 5ms Acer monitors I have now and I doubt I will see a difference with 1ms. VGA, DVI and HDMI inputs, that's good. Seems there is a 30 pixel clipping issue with BluRay, but I don't use them, so it's not a major issue. Acer monitors are well known, this one seems to have lots of good reviews. Three year warranty.
Having a 27" IPS monitor would be great, but the unknowns with the LG make me a little nervous. Acer monitors have always been good to me, but the slow TN panel compared to the IPS is a factor.
What do you think?
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