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Ummon:

--- Quote from: Blanka on November 12, 2008, 03:46:16 am ---That's what I tried to say. Input lag ≠ response time

Input lag is the time needed for the display driving processor to do upscaling, filtering, calibration and G2G overdrive prediction calculations prior to displaying the signal.
(G2G) Response time is the time a pixel needs to get to the desired brightness. Strange thing is that going from 10% white to 5% white can take much more time than from 100% to 0%! Thats why some displays have overdrive, to give an extra boost to the pixel to get it faster to the desired brightness. But it needs two frames of info at least to do this right.

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From the 'thin film transistor liquid crystal display' Wiki page:

More recent use of RTC (Response Time Compensation – Overdrive) technologies has allowed manufacturers to significantly reduce grey-to-grey (G2G) transitions, without significantly improving the ISO response time. Response times are now quoted in G2G figures, with 4ms and 2ms now being commonplace for TN Film based models. The good response time and low cost has led to the dominance of TN in the consumer market.

Blanka:
Talking about response time is nonsense for TN anyway. You're not going to encounter any delays in the 0-10ms range.
And with S-PVA/S-IPS it is still not common to include overdrive timing in the G2G numbers in the tech specs. Better display-test /review sites like prad.de measure this separately.

wbassett:
I don't have any details, maybe someone else does...  I heard a sound bite on the news the other day where several big players admitted to price fixing on LCD displays.

This is just speculation, again I don't have any details or links at the moment about what this means, but could we possibly see a dramatic drop in prices coming for LCD displays?  I'm waiting a bit to see what shakes out.  We could see some good prices coming.

Here is one link I just found on the topic...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10095219-92.html

Gamester:

--- Quote from: wbassett on November 15, 2008, 01:41:04 pm ---I don't have any details, maybe someone else does...  I heard a sound bite on the news the other day where several big players admitted to price fixing on LCD displays.

This is just speculation, again I don't have any details or links at the moment about what this means, but could we possibly see a dramatic drop in prices coming for LCD displays?  I'm waiting a bit to see what shakes out.  We could see some good prices coming.

Here is one link I just found on the topic...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10095219-92.html

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I think the price fixing allegations were for the 2001-2006 timeframe.  I think we've already been seeing very significant drops in pricing on LCD over the past 1-2 years.  Probably no coincidence that the prices started dropping around the time that the investigations started...  If we see bigger price drops going forward, it will probably be for other reasons.

Statsman1:
I went with the Samsung T220...

http://www.samsung.com/ca/consumer/detail/detail.do?group=computersaccessories&type=monitors&subtype=lcd&model_cd=LS22TWHSUV/ZA

...and hopefully this will do the trick.  If it's a disaster, it doesn't appear that it'd be tough to sell this and replace it with something else.

And it was $219 in mint condition, so the price wasn't bad.

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