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Friday, October 21, 2011

LG W2252TQ 22-Inch Widescreen LCD Monitor

22-Inch PC Monitor. 1680x1050 Resolution, 2ms Response Speed (GTG), 10000:1 Contrast Ratio, DVI-D & D-sub Input, 300cd/m2 Brightness, 3 Year Warranty, 48 Hr Quick Swap Service.

Amazon Sales Rank: #2892 in Personal Computers Color: Gloss Black Brand: LG Model: W2252TQ Dimensions: 14.60" h x 20.40" w x 2.40" l, 9.70 pounds Display size: 22 22-Inch Widescreen LCD Monitor with Wide Color Gamut for color accuracy 16:10 Screen Aspect Ratio with 1680 x 1050 Resolution Easy to use OSD (On-Screen Display) with Ez Zooming switch and Photo Effect with 3 modes 10000:1 Digital Fine Contrast Ratio with 2ms Ultra-Fast Response Time Attractive Curved Bezel with Tilt Stand

Most helpful customer reviews 34 of 37 people found the following review helpful. Cannot get the color right, and grainy display By C. Liao Good: no dead pixels Bad: * the same resolution (1680 x 1050) is shared by 19", 20" and 22" LCD panel. You can imagine the grainy display for your photos. Dot Pitch of 0.282 mm is really stretching the limit. To get some sense of the dot pitch: I have a 15" LCD with pitch size 0.25 mm, and a 17" LCD of size 0.264 mm. So don't be fooled by the size of LCD monitors!! * Another big problem: some areas are always biased to red, especially for some human faces in photos. Tweak any configuration will not result in a satisfactory result. So bring your favorite family photos when testing your next monitor purchase. Human eyes are very sensitive to colors of faces and cannot be easily fooled. Totally disappointed with 22", I am returning it and get a 19" on which I can at least enjoy my photos. ------update after one week's research------------ It is sad to know that almost all 22" LCD monitors use TN (twisted nematic) panels. These are only capable of 6-bit color and 262,144 colors. The acclaimed 16.7 million colors are approximated. If you see a monitor advertised with 2 or 5 ms response time, 90% chances are it is based on TN panel. There are two other better choices, depending on your requirements to color accuracy and response time: S-IPS (super in-plane switching) and S-PVA (super patterned vertical alignment). Some third-party reviewers confirmed my complain: trustedreviews dot com says "some serious image quality issues. Unfortunately, there's more bad news to come, with the W2252TQ clearly struggling in our DisplayMate tests. Viewing angles are particularly poor due to severe colour and contrast shift. It also failed to distinguish subtle colour gradients, and produced really pronounced banding in both colour and greyscale. There's colour contamination over blacks and whites, and a noticeable amount of backlight bleed from both the top and bottom of the display" Further information for people who want to be informed consumers. google "anandtech the LCD thread" to find more in-depth discussion and recommendation for you monitor purchase. check tftcentral dot co dot uk for the panels used by major monitors. Bottom line: You get what you pay. There is a reason for the high cost (~$400) of Dell UltraSharp 2007FP or HP LP2065, even they are *only * 20"! 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Simply Stunning! By D. Cloud I was on the fence about buying this monitor, because I'd never owned one before and I was leaning more toward an HP. But then my niece is always bragging about her LG and so it seems is everyone else and then I called Best Buy and the computer guy there told me that LG monitors were the best for graphic designers. So I went there to check them out and instantly fell in love. The clerk also informed me that the reason LG monitors are so highly rated is because the company mainly makes displays. He was kind enough to hook it up to a computer so I could check out how Windows looked on it and after that I was sold. I took it home and hooked it up to my computer and was totally blown away. The display is simply stunning and the screen real estate alone was worth the price. Plus it easily outclasses every other electronic product in my home. The settings and forteManager (a program on the enclosed CD) are extremely easy and a blast to use. I was so used to having to scroll right and left or not being able to see everything on a web page with my old monitor that now it is taking me some time to adjust. The colors, contrast, and text are awesome - even right out of the box with no adjustments. Plus this LG display has a 10,000:1 digital fine contrast that has to be seen to be believed. If you're on the fence like I was then get off and go buy this monitor! Update: It is now been over three years and I am still using this monitor! I know there are many newer models around,

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