My new gaming monitor.

[fociz]

Westinghouse lvm37w3 1080p display.

Just picked this monitor up,here in Utah we have a chain of stores called RC Willey, they carried these around thxgiving but were of course sold out, long story short i called their main store here in Salt Lake and i was lucky enough to get a salesman who wasnt lazy and he found ONE in their whole system that was a floor model and was just sent to their clearance center in Provo.

It was still stated for the black friday price of $749.00(retails for $1199) and i immediately gave him my credit card to hold it, drove to provo the next day and picked it up, i got there and found it was still sealed, never opened even the guy who pulled it was baffled..

Got it home and im impressd so far, no dead pixels, very little backlight bleed.
Running everything in 1920x1080p native.


Heres some screens.
Less than stellar camera shots, sorry.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/fociz/DSC00203.jpg

Buddy playing Gears via VGA..i have picky eyes and i detect no ghosting whatsoever.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/fociz/DSC00202.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/fociz/DSC00201.jpg

Wow running in 1920x1080, the experience is breathtaking.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/fociz/DSC00205.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/fociz/DSC00217.jpg

Dawn of War at 1920x1080
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/fociz/DSC00210.jpg

Fear in..you guessed it 1920x1080..looks amazing with all settings max and fps around 50fps, again no noticeable ghosting at all..
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/fociz/DSC00211.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/fociz/DSC00212.jpg

Supreme Commander demo.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/fociz/DSC00220.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/fociz/DSC00213.jpg

So far im extremely impressed, as a hardcore gamer this is an ideal upgrade monitor.
Response time is 8ms, colors are vivid and bright, so bright infact that i turned the backlight down to 60 from 80.
The menu system is laid out well and simple to navigate through.

I hooked up the ps2 to component1 and we played a little tekken5 in 480p and colors are a bit dark and contrasty but overall look decent for low res but not impressed.
Firmware shows 1.0 but i dont know where to find the mfg date.

I was using the Gateway 24' monitor and had serious eye strain issues with it, something going on with the refresh rate(and horrid ghosting) on that model unfortunately, it went back to best buy.
I was paranoid i might have the same issues with this mammoth screen since im sitting about 3feet away from it but so far no eye strain whatsoever.
Thats all i can think of atm.

Hope this helps any gamers considering this piece, GL.

 

[Sniper82]

sweet monitor/TV but it sure doesn't look like a 37" in the pics 😀. I can't wait till price drops on the 360. I plan on either getting me a budget 32" LCD TV or just getting a 22" LCD for my PC. I'm not picky as long as its HD 🙂.

I'm just playing the waiting game.

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

56k warning? 😕 The pictures are small.

 

[LtPage1]

Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
56k warning? 😕 The pictures are small.

Also, no one has had dialup since the mid to late 1980s.

SWEET setup, man. Congratulations.

 

[fociz]

Originally posted by: LtPage1

Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
56k warning? 😕 The pictures are small.

Also, no one has had dialup since the mid to late 1980s.

SWEET setup, man. Congratulations.

Yeah ill change it, thought id play it safe..hell comcast feels like 56k sometimes.)

 

[lavaheadache]

looks great but you have to take off that hideous blue spec sticker

 

[fociz]

Originally posted by: lavaheadache
looks great but you have to take off that hideous blue spec sticker

I think it looks uhh..cool..yeah your right..damnit..

 

[m21s]

Welcome to the club! :beer:

Gears is great on this monitor isn't it! 🙂 🙂

Edit: Yeah, peel off the sticker man!