Luckily for me, there's a local store in Toronto that sells this monitor - so I don't have to worry about shipping charges. Still waiting for someone to bite on this deal first, as I'm really curious to the performance of this LCD. Such good specs for such a low price.
Heh, so have you checked out the image quality and all that at your store? Or they don't have it on display? What's YOUR local store's return policy? 
So are you just going to buy it and PM it or something?
So are you just going to buy it and PM it or something?Yeah, I will be going either Sunday or Monday to check out the monitor in person. Hopefully they have a display model. I'll do my best to report any interesting findings .
.I saw the return policy which is why I'm not biting that and the fact that as soon as I started snooping asking if I could check the monitor out, or if they had any more info, or if I could pick it up. I stopped getting any return emails...seems a little fishy to me, maybe they didn't want a local dropping by if the prodcut was a lemon
Rhombuss please get back to us on the quality if it's a good monitor I'll take a drive down and see what this place is all about.
Rhombuss please get back to us on the quality if it's a good monitor I'll take a drive down and see what this place is all about.
Just an update for everyone. Finally going to the store today to check it out at around 7:00 PM EST - be back at around 8:00 PMish with my personal verdict .
.Hey I was gonna ask where are you going to see the Panel at? I want to see one in person aswell since it seems most people find LCD's to be very subjective...ie "Eye of the beholder," kind of thing
Well, I'm in Toronto - so unless you want to come all the way up north from Cali, you'll hafta trust me on my verdict .
.I trust you (yeah right ) it just seems that when it comes to LCD's one person could say it looks great and someone else might think it's only OK, but if you say it sucks that's the verdict for me.
) it just seems that when it comes to LCD's one person could say it looks great and someone else might think it's only OK, but if you say it sucks that's the verdict for me.Well...just came back from the store - got a chance to see the monitor. Here's my verdict:
The store also had LCDs from LG, NEC, Radius, NFren and Viewsonic for me to compare with. All the other brands were 15" LCDs, this Hyundai being the only 17".
The colour contrast and brightness were excellent, easily matching the quality of the NEC. I thought the contrast and brightness were a step above the LG and Viewsonic, and miles ahead of the Radius and NFren. The Radius and NFren had problems displaying the default Windows XP desktop theme, not showing very convincing hues of blue and green. The Hyundai monitor showed the colours very brightly, just as well as the NEC LCD. ClearType was enabled, and the text looked very crisp. I opened Word and was typing with 8 sized font, and had no problems reading it. Desktop display was excellent (in my opinion at least), so those interested in this monitor mainly for business/work, they should be more than pleased.
I didn't notice a single burnt or stuck pixel on the screen, as I switched between many different backgrounds and plain colour backgrounds to test this. Hopefully this is an indication of the quality control at Hyundai. I was also looking for colour distortions but found that the contrast/brightness/balance was in general very consistent. I know some LCDs have problem displaying true black, but that didn't seem to be an issue for this Hyundai display.
I watched a few AVIs, MPEGs and DVDs on the screen, and the Hyundai screen played them just as well as any good LCD I've seen (mainly NECs and Samsungs). There was very minimal motion blur, but when I tested the DVDs on the Radius and LG screen, they suffered quite more from the blur. Unfortunately, the store didn't have any gaming software for me to test out in that department. I might go back in a few days with my own software and ask them if I could install it to test. The computer was running a GeForce4 MX card, using the analog input - not the DVI input. So I can only assume it might have looked even BETTER had it been using the DVI. There was a 4-way monitor input switch, so I was limited to displaying via the analog cable.
The construction of the monitor was also very good. The pivoting mechanism felt solid, and smooth at the same time. The NFren monitor had a really cheap feel to it, particularly when you pivoted the monitor or angle it vertically. Just a word to the wise though, the monitor I was looking at was the OEM version, so it was plain beige/white-ish, not the stylistic silver/black that is on that HyundaiQ page. So make sure that ESystor store is actually selling the retail version of the monitor (if the aesthetics are important to you).
I hope that's a decent preliminary look at the monitor for you guys. I also had my doubts about the monitor, being so much cheaper than competition with similar specifications, but rest assured - it's not some cheap makeshift LCD. The display quality surprised me since it was on par with the NEC.
The store also had LCDs from LG, NEC, Radius, NFren and Viewsonic for me to compare with. All the other brands were 15" LCDs, this Hyundai being the only 17".
The colour contrast and brightness were excellent, easily matching the quality of the NEC. I thought the contrast and brightness were a step above the LG and Viewsonic, and miles ahead of the Radius and NFren. The Radius and NFren had problems displaying the default Windows XP desktop theme, not showing very convincing hues of blue and green. The Hyundai monitor showed the colours very brightly, just as well as the NEC LCD. ClearType was enabled, and the text looked very crisp. I opened Word and was typing with 8 sized font, and had no problems reading it. Desktop display was excellent (in my opinion at least), so those interested in this monitor mainly for business/work, they should be more than pleased.
I didn't notice a single burnt or stuck pixel on the screen, as I switched between many different backgrounds and plain colour backgrounds to test this. Hopefully this is an indication of the quality control at Hyundai. I was also looking for colour distortions but found that the contrast/brightness/balance was in general very consistent. I know some LCDs have problem displaying true black, but that didn't seem to be an issue for this Hyundai display.
I watched a few AVIs, MPEGs and DVDs on the screen, and the Hyundai screen played them just as well as any good LCD I've seen (mainly NECs and Samsungs). There was very minimal motion blur, but when I tested the DVDs on the Radius and LG screen, they suffered quite more from the blur. Unfortunately, the store didn't have any gaming software for me to test out in that department. I might go back in a few days with my own software and ask them if I could install it to test. The computer was running a GeForce4 MX card, using the analog input - not the DVI input. So I can only assume it might have looked even BETTER had it been using the DVI. There was a 4-way monitor input switch, so I was limited to displaying via the analog cable.
The construction of the monitor was also very good. The pivoting mechanism felt solid, and smooth at the same time. The NFren monitor had a really cheap feel to it, particularly when you pivoted the monitor or angle it vertically. Just a word to the wise though, the monitor I was looking at was the OEM version, so it was plain beige/white-ish, not the stylistic silver/black that is on that HyundaiQ page. So make sure that ESystor store is actually selling the retail version of the monitor (if the aesthetics are important to you).
I hope that's a decent preliminary look at the monitor for you guys. I also had my doubts about the monitor, being so much cheaper than competition with similar specifications, but rest assured - it's not some cheap makeshift LCD. The display quality surprised me since it was on par with the NEC.
wow. this seems like a good deal now - even if it is not as good as previously stated, for 527 shipped you cant go wrong....very tempting...
BTW, as to the DVI vs Analog issue. i'm sitting in front of a Dell 17" monitor right now. It looks SOOOO much better w/ the DVI than with the analog (that's using an ATI 8500). and I'm usually part of the 95% that can't really tell the difference for things like monster cable etc. i would buy the cheap cable every time. but with the DVI vs Analog, I find DVI to be SIGNIFICANTLY better. with the analog i get flicker and all sorts of other minor annoyances I never see with DVI.
I'm not sure where your complaints are coming from - as I started this thread to make the AnandTech community aware of a very low priced LCD monitor, with very impressive specifications. Two individuals contacted me via email to inform me that they went ahead and purchased the monitor. I'm sure many of the people here are anxious to find out whether or not this monitor does indeed live up to its specifications. If you have any problems with people trying to inform others of potentially good deals, I suggest you look in another forum .
.Apparently the order that I placed on Saturday didn't go through, so I tried ordering again yesterday. It's still "processing" - not a good sign, since most decent companies ship the same day. On the other hand, that particular company is on Huyndai's list of their US resellers.
so I ordered this sweet deal... maybe a little too sweet. News on the web about this site is quiet... a little too quiet. Fortunately if I don't like it I can return it for a full refund, minus shipping which was free so unless they are a total scam should be ok. since there ius no sales tax I think this is just about the cheapest 17inch LCD available, per pricewatch, and it has DVI, great response time the whole package. I will let people know how the site is, although the last comment was less than encouraging I will keep hope alive (12in. vinyl remix).
Ben
Ben
Another update: it was shipped on the 30th, but they notified me on the 31st. Checked the tracking number - the package is 22 pounds, so it looks about right, unless they sent me a couple bricks. I should get it on the 6th, so I'll let you know how it is. Took them 3 days to ship it out - not as good as newegg, but not too bad either. So far so good I guess.
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