Re: New Full HD Monitor for Programming and Movies around 10k - Updated till 15k
Well, my preference is buying offline too. Since when it comes to monitors, I just won't get lower price online, than offline.
I would visit cost to cost this saturday. I will also try to find the 23" variant of the monitor, probably in some HP showroom.
Lets see how it goes. I will have to decide on the spot, the picture clarity along with the price will be the deciding factor. I have shortlisted following monitors for comparisons, in order of preference:
1. HP Pavilion 22xw (or 23")
2. BenQ 24 inch EW2440L
3. Samsung 23.6 inch LS24D390HL/XL
Btw, another query. I recently bought AOC i2279VWHE 21.5 inch IPS Monitor for my friend. I thought since it's 1080 and all, the wide screen movies will look great on the monitor. But to my disappointment there were still bars over it. I did some calculations and found out that the resolution of the movie was 1920 x 800. So of course on a 1080p screen (1920 x 1080) there will be black bars.
I am wondering whether most of the so called 1080p movies are actually 1920 or 1080 or only 1920 x 800. If the case is later, than will it make a difference if I buy a really wide screen monitor like LG 25UM65-P 25 inch LED Backlit LCD Monitor? I always wanted a really wide screen monitor. More stuff side by side and better than having dual monitors.
most bluray movies are made at a cinema aspect ratio 21:9, not 16:9..
Thats why there are 21:9 monitors, like the LG one you linked.. Its totally your preference but if you are going for a monitor with higher resolution and/or a different aspect ratio, make sure your GPU can handle the load if you are gonna game..
setting a lower resolution for games, at non native aspect ratio on such displaus will make it look really ugly and distorted.. the individual square pixels will turn to rectangles to accomodate the change in aspect ratio
For programming, the wider screen migth be useful, im not sure, because I have never tried it out.. If you do buy that, make a review please
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If play movie or game in 25" monitor.....look like..image will stretched?
Good for viewing or any discomfort.
if you play at the native resolution, any modern game will look just as good as its meant to be.. However, it will be very taxing for your GPU if it doesnt have horsepower to drive it..
If you do want to lower resolution for games, you'd want that resolution to be of the same aspect ratio as the monitor you are using, it will stretch but it wont distort and look ugly
For example -> dont set 1024x768 for a monitor that is 1600x900, set it to 1280x720 .. the individual pixels will still be squares and not rectangles..
older games like warcraft3 will not scale well, their UI will be distorted at odd resolutions, go to widescreengaming (dot) com might have a fix/mod for such things
, this LG monitor is the only one i found in this price range that is both Anti glare matte and IPS
