LCD Buyer's Guide Fall 2007

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Of course, it is impossible to cover all the products selling today. Fortunately, most of them present little interest since many monitors are part of an unexciting mass with similar characteristics (and the problem of choice is reduced to the customer liking or disliking the particular monitor’s exterior design) or stand out among others with an inadequately high price, which makes them only interesting for people who like the particular brand.

The setup quality of 17” monitors is a random thing that depends on your luck. The manufacturers do not care about it much as the price category doesn’t demand them to. As a result, the accuracy of color reproduction on such monitors may vary from good to unacceptable.

Besides, widescreen monitors have a smaller pixel pitch. Many users think that pixels on standard 19-inchers are too large, making the image grainy and angular. This can be regarded as one more plus of widescreen monitors. Unfortunately, 19” widescreen models are manufactured with TN matrixes only as yet.

The extended color gamut allows the monitor to display more saturated and lush colors, but it depends on other factors how close those colors are to the desired ones.