Discussion Forums > Technology

LED backlit LCD screens (help with a purchase)

<< < (2/3) > >>

CappinHoff:

--- Quote from: Proin Drakenzol on June 22, 2010, 05:34:35 PM ---
--- Quote from: nstgc on June 22, 2010, 02:55:35 PM ---I priced the TVs and they are well out of my price range. $300 is more than I should spend, but chances are thats how much I will be spending.

--- End quote ---


$300? Methinks you are missing a "0."


As for the monitors: the backlit ones are still very thin. Samsung makes a good product, Acer does not.

--- End quote ---

I 2nd this. ASUS is another brand that makes good products.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236083

fohfoh:
LED backlit make it slightly sharper, but it's not a breathtaking difference. Might be nicer for movie watching or something, but for normal use, I'll be damned if you can see a difference.

Agreed. Asus has good stuff. However, the only times I ever see them have issues is when they have more power then their housing can handle (overheating usually). But even this is rare with mainly idiots hotboxing their laptop without even knowing. 

nstgc:

--- Quote from: fohfoh on June 22, 2010, 08:55:04 PM ---LED backlit make it slightly sharper, but it's not a breathtaking difference. Might be nicer for movie watching or something, but for normal use, I'll be damned if you can see a difference.

Agreed. Asus has good stuff. However, the only times I ever see them have issues is when they have more power then their housing can handle (overheating usually). But even this is rare with mainly idiots hotboxing their laptop without even knowing. 

--- End quote ---

I only care about video playback in respects to this question. When using my computer for games or work I've never cared about black being a shade of grey. I'm thinking about scenes where its dark in most places, but light in a few others. Will it help with that or will I, as I did with this monitor, just turn off the dynamic contrast feature?

fohfoh:
If you're sitting in the dark, I'd say so. But in a brightly lit room, the difference is there, but not huge. AFAIK, it keeps the light from shining past the edges of the monitor like traditional monitors or something.

GoGeTa006:
From a "tv" stand point I went to this meeting for the "sears blue electronics crew"
and yes. . .the dynamic contrast is just bullshit for marketing
so is the hertz on a plasma
backlit vs edgelit. . .well as you said, backlit does give a more uniform lighting and altho its hard to notice the light does dim out on the center for edgelit TV's

The only downside to LED's I've seen so far, at least with the sony guys competing against the samsung first generation LED's is the following:

you have a DARK DARK DARK scene, on a sony xbr: you see a dark dark dark scene. . .on a samsung LED you see a black black black detail-less screen.
Even tho LED's are brighter and more energy efficient, the contrast ratio jumps off so high that it looses detail on dark scenes, which so far Sony has been able to reduce as far as I've seen.
I took some high definition pictures onto the sony LED's and the Samsung LED's and yes the sony looks pretty damm much better (NX8 vs Samsung 9000) (on this new 2010 generation) still the sony XBR '09 beats them both

Thats from a TV standpoint. . .I cant really say much about monitors

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page