Searching for an uniform backlight pannel

[imported_Psykosis]

Hi there, well, this is my first post but I am an habitué of this forum for quite some time now. I've read several LCD posts, including *all* the LCD Buyer's Guide.

I'm looking for something with a good uniform backlight, adjustable stand (pivot, swivel) and a bit faster than 20ms. Size doesn't matter but anything above 19" becomes too expensive.

After some research I can say that my ideal monitor is the HP L1955. Besides, the HP seems a bit expensive and I don't understand why. Looking for a release date I've found reviews dated Junary 2005, thats more than a year ago, a lot of time for a monitor and its "new" S-MVA panel, not found in any other monitor of this class (even the L1755). On prad.de for example, this model is compared to the old Samsung 195p and the VP191b (the VP930b *still* uses a P-MVA panel even slower than the one on the previous model?).

And about the Viewsonic model, I've heard the the new VP930b built Junary 2006 has better color algoritms and improved light uniformity. Is that true?

Many thanks in advance.

 

[MacVista]

Well I have a HP L1955 and I'd say it meets all your criteria (good uniform backlight, adjustable stand (pivot, swivel) and a bit faster than 20ms.)

It's a very uniform backlight and the adjustable stand is quite nice (although it does take a little more force to get it to pivot and swivel than I'd like... but I guess that's how it stays in place and not move around).

The HP is expensive probably because you're partially paying for the "HP brand name." However it does perform very well, very little ghosting (16ms), and the colors are very nice.

I have no clue how it compares to a VP930b though.

 

[imported_Psykosis]

Oh, great, thanks for the info. Yep, you're paying for the brand, but still seems odd that here this monitor cost $US 200 more than the newest VP930b. That's the only thing that prevents me to run for it right now.

Someone using a VP930b dated junary 2006?

 

[Barkotron]

Mine (VP930, Jan 2006) is excellent. Seems very evenly lit to me. Possibly very slightly lighter in the corners if I turn the brightness right up, but then I never have the brightness right up normally as I value my eyes .

There's a very, very, very slight ghosting if you really concentrate on trying to notice it, but I found it's only really detectable if you deliberately try to use worst-case scenarios and look out for it specially. In-game, I notice nothing. I suppose it depends on how picky you want to be.

Stand adjustment is tremendous. No effort, enormous range of movement. Beautiful.

 

[imported_Psykosis]

Barkotron, thanks, thats good info. Seems that I must look for a Jan 2006 model to take a look at the uniformity at "normal" bright levels.

 

[imported_Psykosis]

Bump, someone can explain me about the HP's S-MVA panel against Viewsonic P-MVA panel (about why L1955 is the only 19" monitor using the S-MVA panel, that seems to be better than P-MVA but a year older?).

Also, someone using Samsung 770p/970p can confirm me that the panel has a good overall uniformity?

 

[imported_Psykosis]

Now, looking to the Acer AL1923 PVA pannel. Some user can confirm me the overall backlight uniformity?

AL1923