Monitored

Monitored
8th Mar 2010 - 14:31	by jansic
When my Philips 200W6 TFT monitor developed a fault earlier in the year I found that replacing it was much harder than I'd anticipated. My first theory when replacing the monitor was that, if I bought it 4 years ago for £250, then an equivalent monitor today must be cheaper! I first purchased an Iiyama E2202WS at £125. Before it had arrived I saw a similar Iiyama in real life and didn't like the colour reproduction. I turned the monitor away without even opening the box. Perturbed by this, I did a little research and ordered what was seemingly the best panel I could find for under £150 - a Samsung P2270. Overall it's a nice monitor but the abysmal colour and weird viewing angle inversion was much worse than my ailing Philips. I sent the Samsung back. It was at this point that I did some research into the monitor I already owned. What I hadn't realised was that my Philips contained an IPS panel and I'd only been looking at monitors with TN panels. Filtering the market for IPS panels was hard, though I eventually came across the Dell 2209WA. It's probably the cheapest IPS you can buy at around £225. £225 is far more than I'd intended to spend but the Dell is an excellent monitor. I suppose if you've never had a good quality monitor then the mediocre quality of TN panels wouldn't be an issue. For me I didn't even know what the difference would be.

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