Wow - A 2ms Viewsonic LCD....

[Stangs55]

http://www.viewsonic.com/companyinfo/pr...ease_detail.cfm?key_press_release=1056

wow....overkill, but wow

 

[CodeName 88]

Most reviews dubbed the VX724/924 as being bad in the color area.

I wonder what those 2ms screens will be like?

 

[gsellis]

I will believe this one when Anand and a few others, including Tom's, test it. Marketing depts can fog reality...

Note on Tom's Hardware - They have always been stellar and groundbreaking on monitor evals. Give them their due.

 

[MNOB07]

A little off topic, but what's the point of when lcd's say something along the lines of "8 ms grey-grey"? It doesn't make any sense.

 

[Lyfer]

Looks good on paper. But can it stand real world tests?

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: MNOB07
A little off topic, but what's the point of when lcd's say something along the lines of "8 ms grey-grey"? It doesn't make any sense.

The LCD monitor reviews at THG go into this in much more detail, but here's a quick summary:

The original VESA specs for LCD monitors measured response time by seeing how long it takes a pixel to go from black to white to black again. This is misleading, because (due to physical characteristics of LCD panels), it's quicker to go from black to white than to go from black to a medium value. So a panel that is listed as "16ms" may go black to white and back in 16ms, but actually take 40-50 milliseconds during transitions from one shade of grey to another.

With 'Overdrive' panels like the ones used in the Viewsonic VX924, they are capable of going from black to grey (or between different intermediate values) much faster, although in the case of the VX924, the pixels sometimes 'overshoot' a little, creating sparkle in motion video. These panels are not necessarily a whole lot faster going black to white, but can be a *lot* faster going grey-to-grey, so some companies have started listing these times instead of (or in addition to) the standard VESA measurement.

 

[Stangs55]

true....it may not be a real world 2ms response...but it'll be close...and close to 2ms is still fast

 

[foodfightr]

I won't believe it until I see independent testing.

 

[0roo0roo]

yea needs independent testing. the last batch of claims wasn't quite true..of course the claims are never quite true in terms of ms.

 

[Unkno]

....all of you failed to state about the range of the ms...for example, 2 ms could be from gray to gray, but going from full scale of the colors (this is also like real world), the ms could be like 50ms. The best LCD monitors are the one with a low ms for the full spectrum of colors, like the VB191B which has a range of 12-15ms.