New Gateway 22" and 24" Displays accounced

[gamephile]

Gateway announced refreshes of their 22" and 24" lines to bring them in step with the recently released 30" model.

Gateway's monitor page: http://www.gateway.com/retail/monitors.php
Press Release:
http://home.businesswire.com/p...1025005494&newsLang=en

FHD2400 Specs:

1900x1200
Brightness: 400cd/m²
Contrast Ratio: 1000:1
Color Gamut: 92%
Response times:
3 ms (UltraResponse enabled)
5 ms (UltraResponse disabled)
Inputs:
(1) HDMI (HDCP)
(1) Analog (VGA), 15-pin mini d-sub VGA
(1) Digital (DVI-D), 24-pin DVI-D
(1) Component
(1) Composite
(1) S-Video
$550

HD2200 22" Specs:

1680x1050
Brightness: 300cd/m²
Contrast Ratio: 1000:1
Color Gamut: ?
Response times:
4 ms (UltraResponse enabled)
5 ms (UltraResponse disabled)
Inputs:
(1) HDMI (HDCP)
(1) Analog (VGA), 15-pin mini d-sub VGA
(1) Digital (DVI-D), 24-pin DVI-D
(1) Component
$350

Obviously these are both TN panels which diminishes my enthusiasm greatly, and they decided to use Faroudja instead of Teranex (Like the 30") for the video conversion. I don't understand why they didn't go HQV with these two models, that would've really sweetened the deal for me.

What do you guys think?

 

[postmortemIA]

Will have same inverse ghosting as in the previous model? I bet it is due to that Faroudja chip.

160º left/right, 160º up/down - yes it is an TN... how ordinary!

 

[GeneralOreo]

The LCD monitor market needs something like LED backlights and excellent 120Hz frame rate conversion for me to buy a new monitor, I'm sick of this tiny increments of advancements.

At this rate my next monitor will be an OLED in 2010.

 

[gamephile]

Here here. I am so sick of it being almost 2008 and having nothing to replace my 21" NEC 2070SB. It's such a gorgeous display color wise but it weighs 70lbs and is downright blurry in text reproduction compared to an LCD. With all these monitor releases being TN panels I wonder if I'll have no choice but to downgrade when this thing dies. Sigh...

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: gamephile
Here here. I am so sick of it being almost 2008 and having nothing to replace my 21" NEC 2070SB. It's such a gorgeous display color wise but it weighs 70lbs and is downright blurry in text reproduction compared to an LCD. With all these monitor releases being TN panels I wonder if I'll have no choice but to downgrade when this thing dies. Sigh...

There are still lots of good *VA & a few *IPS options.

Just don't wait too long...

 

[beatle]

I'm with you guys. I've been running the same Hitachi CM772 for 7 years. I wonder sometimes how incredible CRTs would be now if they had continued R&D on them.

 

[SunnyD]

Do these come with the same horrible Gateway quality that my 21" came with?