19'' LCD survey of inexpensive and quality screens
by Vincent Alzieu
Published on November 29, 2006
Viewing angles
We take pictures of the monitors at a 50° angle. We realise with this test that the viewing angles of the monitors' characteristics are sometimes largely exaggerated.
Usually, if you have children they will be able to recognise the monitors based on TN technology. The panel turns to black if you look at it from below…
Asus PG191
Asus PW 191
Belinea 1980 S1
Belinea 1925S1W
Benq FP93G X
LG Flatron L1960TQ
Mirai DLM-519W100
Philips 190G6
Samsung SyncMaster 971P
Even if, you haven't read the table on the first page, you might have guessed that only two monitors aren't' TN. Only the Belinea 1980 S1 and the Samsung 971P have homogeneous viewing angles in almost every direction. The point is that everyone in the room will see a correct image regardless of their age.
In these extracts we can see an interesting improvement for TN monitors. The lateral viewing angle is good and better than on MVA and PVA monitors, whose contrast drops faster. The good news is that it is possible now to have a dual monitor configuration with two TNs and colors will be better than two VAs.
Movies
Results are unchanged since last year. Monitors haven't progressed as upscaling and twinkling aren't better. ATI and NVIDIA, however, introduced the correction of twinkling effects with rather successfully efficient algorithms to reduced the video noise level and most of all the accentuation due to LCD monitors. If these tricks are handy and really improve the rendering of SD and (recently) HD sequences, the best monitors adds as few defects as possible.
MVA technology is still the leader in this domain. The twinkling in color scales is less significant for these panels than for the TN and PVA.
The best 19" monitor for this test is the Belinea 1980 S1.
