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I can't get the monitor to work over displayport. HDMI seems fine, but when i tried the included displayport cable with my 6850 (no adapter, full size DP to full size DP), a popup message in windows that says "DisplayPort Lower Setting Applied" and the maximum resolution i can select is...

The reason some people see it and some people don't is probably because some people never user their monitors in complete darkness. With an all-black screen in a dark room at night, the gamma shift (and the backlight) is really noticeable on my F2380, but with the lights on, i can't see the...

For me, watching on one monitor vs. three would heavily depend on what movie I was watching. For 1.85:1 movies I would only use one screen, but for 2.35:1 aspect ratio movies I would definitely zoom the movie image so that the top and bottom fills the vertical height of the screens, and let the...

I just got this monitor and it seems well built. Nice and bright. There is no backlight leaking around the edges at all, however, the black level just isn't low enough for me to watch movies in a dark room. I wanted to upgrade from my Dell G2410 led and this does not have any better blacks...

Ah, okay great. So basically the EV2333 has better blacks at any given luminance than any of the others. Actually the opposite is true. In a dark room at lower luminance levels, your eyeballs adjust and the black level becomes very noticeable. Obviously when you have a bunch of bright content...

Well on the F2380 it looks as if the lower you make the brightness, the higher the contrast seems to get, so the 7000:1 "maximum contrast" they mentioned (not in the calibration section, btw) was probably with the minimum luminance of 42cdm2 with the brightness at 0%. That would be 0.006. You...

Well I took my wad o' cash to the monitor store again today, and this time I draped my jacket over the top of the VW2420, dropped the brightness to 0 and examined the black level under my "hood" (and probably looked like an idiot doing it, but how else am I going to compare to my home viewing...

Wow I didn't even know Toshiba had local-dimming sets. I've been eyeballing LG's 2nd-generation local dimming LE8500 / Vizio XVT3 series for a while now, but then I saw the LEX8 review and decided that it will probably be worth the wait.

Thanks for setting me straight about the PCMonitors.org review. The BenQ numbers at TFTcentral are very promising. I am really torn between these two monitors now! F2380 pros: Deeper blacks; better looks; thinner bezel & rotation better for eyefinity upgrade. F2380 cons: Crushed shadow detail...

Wow, thanks for the response! I'll see if the Eizo is available. NCX, When you measured the F2380MX and Benq EW2420 at 120cdm/2 and 0.04cdm/2, what were the monitors' respective brightness settings? From the other reviews, it seems like the Benq will only go as low as 0.04 or 0.03 when set to...

Which display has the lowest black level? My environment is always dark with no lights on, so any backlight bleed is very noticeable to me. I'm guessing my options are pretty much limited to the Samsung F2380 or the Benq VW/EW2420. Unfortunately there is no 2333T or F2380MX/M where i live...

It is no random scene that they do testing of dynamic contrast on. It isn't a "scene" at all. , It's as I described below. Don't get me wrong, I am fully planning on buying this monitor if it ever actually arrives and has similar performance to the 204. I just won't use the auto contrast...

With all the hype Sony is making recently about "1080p FullHD," I dont see how you could go wrong with 1080p. The PS3 was designed to output 1080p perfectly, so just output that to your 1080p display. Unless you're telling me that when you have your PS3 set to output 1080p, and that the...

DLP is digital just like LCD. So it's going to be way closer to LCD than CRT, functionally. It's probably only going to accept something around 50-60hz just like most lcds do. I had a dlp projector that wanted 57 to get it to display in dvi at native resolution.. Come to think of it...

I guess if you wanted to use bigger numbers to show the difference between 15:9 and 16:9...but my math teacher told me to use the smallest numbers possible for fractions, so it's 5:3. Same reason people don't say "12:9" when they mean 4:3.

just plug the dvi cable in. your monitor supposedly supports hdcp which many comcast boxes require, so that shouldnt be a problem. See if it works. if it doesnt, it means you need to adjust the output resolution of your cable box. it probably outputs only 480i, 480p, 720p and 1080i. i...

I believe when you use the VGA output on the xbox360 it lets you select 1280x768, which is CLOSE to 16:10.. its actually 5:3, but the difference between 1.6666666666666666 and 1.6 will probably not be very noticeable . I believe this is what most people use on their 19" 1440x900 and 22"...

If I had my way, TVs would be 2.5:1 so as to accommodate even the widest movie made. That way, the old-fashioned, 4:3 content would have huge black bars on the sides. Why should the higher quality 2.35:1 movies get the short end of the screen-real-estate stick when they are usually much higher...

Well the home theater guys love to use this rule of thumb: the seating distance should be 1.5 to 2 times the screen width. I personally prefer 1.5. The next time you go to a movie theater, sit in your favorite spot and then notice how big the screen width appears to you compared to how far you...

Actually, the way they measure it is simple: they don't do it in real time. They take a full white frame (where the auto brightness would be at full blast), measure it, then they take a full black frame (where the auto light would be at its dimmest), then measure that. Thats how they get the...

I have the same problem with the 10 inch sony laptop screen im looking at right now...except many times worse since it's over 5 years old... I have to hold my head at just the right angle to have things on PART of the screen not be washed out! It is so bad that i am actually not sure if this...

I had the chance to see this monitor side by side with the chimei 22" tn panel, both hooked up via DVI at native res. The colors and contrast difference was very apparent, and text looked much sharper on the LG (not just because of the smaller pixel pitch, either - i looked from a slightly...

Thanks for your replies, guys. I'm going to go back to the store and take another look. I swear it was still really bright even when i looked from an extreme angle underneath it! Almost everything else I look at just goes black as soon as I squat down and look up at them from below...

I am about to purchase a 20.1" 1680x1050 no-name brand lcd called a Hanton h-420w for 210 US dollars.. I've been looking at all kinds of 20" widescreen panels lately, and for some reason this super cheap one has better viewing angles than nearly EVERY other name brand panel i've seen so far...

Whether or not the ps3 will output custom widescreen resolutions such as 1680x1050 and 1440x900 through its hdmi port is another issue. If it doesn't, and your monitor doesnt happen to be native 1280 or 1920 in width, then you'd better hope you have good scaling under your panel's hood. my...

Guys, the monitor manufacturers have already solved your argument. Many of the widescreen monitors can be rotated 90 degrees, which will give you 1680 or 1920 vertical pixels if you prefer to work that way. That way you can utilize more of your resolution if you are working on something tall...