Fujitsu-Siemens C19-4
The C19-4 uses the same Premium MVA panel as the ViewSonic VP191b monitor. Its huge advantage is that it is 200€ cheaper! And unlike the ViewSonic monitor you don’t have to make sure you are buying the right version. For Fujitsu-Siemens, there is only one C19-4.
Ergonomics
Owing to its low price, the monitor is very basic. The monitor doesn’t have a pivot mode, an USB hub, a DVI input (the VGA cable is interdependent). There is a high-end panel in an entry-level product. We don’t see that very often.
Color quality
The monitor is inexpensive but the color quality is very impressive.
How to interpret the graphOn the left is the gamut: this is the monitor colorimetric range compared to the sRGB range (the one usually used for digital cameras). This doesn’t correspond to its accuracy, but to the range of reproducible colors.
For accuracy, you have to check out the right graph, the DeltaE. This is a measure between the color requested and the one really displayed on the monitor. The result obtained is also counter-balanced by human color sensitivity.
With Delta E > 3 the desired colors is noticeably different from the one on the screen.
With 1 < Delta E < 2 colors are accurate. With Delta E < 1, the result is perfect.
The DeltaE of all the colors requested here is always inferior to 1. This means that all colors displayed are exactly the one requested. The gamut is less impressive. It corresponds to the sRGB, the digital camera standard. This is an average result.
Viewing angles
Like all VA monitors, these ones are wide but not as broad as the manufacturer says. The problem is once again the measure used by the manufacture to establish these figure. We won’t go back on this subject since we already spoke our mind in
this other page.
With this monitor, the image is perfect until 100° (50° from the center) and very good until 160°. Beyond that, exterior lighting overly disturbs the picture by reflecting on the monitor. The same goes for vertical viewing angles, perfect until 100°, good but darker beyond.
Interpolation
Even if it may sound surprising to you, the monitor’s interpolation isn’t as good as the ViewSonic VP191b. It is the same panel, exactly the same reference, the color quality is just as good, but resized images and letters are blurrier and the scaly effect is more visible. This is the first time that we noticed so clearly that two monitor with the same panel can produce very different results.
Games video
Without being quite so obvious, there is also a difference with games. The C19-4 is clearly faster than all VA monitors on the market, but its reaction time is slightly slower than the ViewSonic. You can see this difference if you place both monitors in clone mode.
It is perfectly playable. The afterglow is low but it is slightly more visible than with the last generation of TN monitors.
Films : DVD, HD
This time there is no difference between this monitor and the ViewSonic: both of them have twinkling effects in very dark scenes (corridors with low lighting or sunsets), but provide very good results in all other aspects. And, above all, colors are very nice. This isn’t always the case for all LCD monitors. It is possible to watch a movie and really enjoy it. You just need to step back (1.5m) not to be disturbed anymore.
Verdict
If this monitor price was equivalent to the VP191b we would advise you to choose the ViewSonic product. But it isn’t. So if you have a tight budget or if you play a lot but are not hooked on FPS and if you watch a movie from time to time (avoid overly dark movies such a Matrix or Star Wars), then this monitor is a really good choice. The monitor quality is close to the ViewSonic, it is a VA with very wide viewing angles and an astonishing color quality (way better than CRT’s) and it has a moderate price.
Take a look at this manufacture’s dead pixel policy by clicking here! 
