Assessing cheap monitors & TV panels.

[Peter Jason]

There's a sale on in the vicinity selling cheap AV
$150 18" screens. The pixel density is given as
i1080 and 1080 x 1700. What else shouls I check
for?
Peter

 

[philo]

That is not a good price. For one thing 18" is tiny by today's
standards. You can get a 23" for that price, check on line.

John

I bought a 22" KDS widescreen about 3 years ago for about $200

Did no research, just bought it on a whim...and it works great

NewEgg currently has even better monitors for around $150 or so 23" etc

 

[Paul]

There's a sale on in the vicinity selling cheap AV
$150 18" screens. The pixel density is given as
i1080 and 1080 x 1700. What else shouls I check
for?
Peter

I'd shop around a bit more, as this time of year
some of the sale items are not really on sale.
They're a ripoff.

We have a chain store here going out of business,
and I looked at their "deep discounts" and it looked
like a lot of regular price stuff. Like, stay out
of their TV section. The only thing I bought there
was a bag of potato chips for $0.67, because I was
hungry from walking around the store for nothing

Paul

 

[larrymoencurly]

There's a sale on in the vicinity selling cheap AV $150 18" screens.
The pixel density is given as i1080 and 1080 x 1700. What else
should I check for?

Dead pixels. Run something like Nokia's monitor test:

http://tinyurl.com/ygqgxd

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Other-VIDEO-Tools/Nokia-Monitor-Test.shtml

and have it display one primary color at a time so you can see the dead
pixels more easily. If possible, do this at the native resolution of
the monitor.

$150 US for an 18" monitor is nothing special unless the LCD is the IPS
type, but other types of LCDs are often $100 for 20" widescreen, $120 for
22".