High End TFT?

[steve threlfall]

Excellent. And how about some screens of farcry running at 1600x1200

[Stoo]

For that I would need Farcry

[Stoo]

[Howard]

High end TFT... That's what I like to see... No £250 rubbish Nice choice dude

[DeludedDude]

I can think of better things to spend £700 on, but its your money, make the right choice.

[Stoo]

My system is pretty much as I want it, I've got a nice tv, dvd, hifi, home theatre system, ps2, etc etc, I don't need to buy a car, and I've got all the clothes I need at the moment too. What I did need was a decent large monitor which took up as little space as possible, hence the purchase.

If you want the best then you have to pay, simple as.

[DeludedDude]

My system is pretty much as I want it, I've got a nice tv, dvd, hifi, home theatre system, ps2, etc etc, I don't need to buy a car, and I've got all the clothes I need at the moment too. What I did need was a decent large monitor which took up as little space as possible, hence the purchase.

If you want the best then you have to pay, simple as.

Wish I could be making the same choice, lucky ****!

[Stoo]

Heh.

Not luck, just hard work.

[DeludedDude]

Yeh, I guess. Once Im through with college, and then uni, and then find some work, then it will be my time, Muahahahahaah!

[guybrush]

how does spending 700 differ from spending 250?

[Howard]

Because more expensive usually means higher quality? (With the exception of Bose)

A £6000 car isn't going to be as luxurious or powerful as a £60,000 one is it?

Same applies to this TFT... It's a larger space, supports a high resolution, and has a very small response time, which is the most important factor. The response time on cheap TFTs is usually pretty poor

[DeludedDude]

Because more expensive usually means higher quality? (With the exception of Bose)

A £6000 car isn't going to be as luxurious or powerful as a £60,000 one is it?

Same applies to this TFT... It's a larger space, supports a high resolution, and has a very small response time, which is the most important factor. The response time on cheap TFTs is usually pretty poor

Sorry Howard, not in this case. The reason it cost so much was because it was a 20-inch. I can get a 17" monitor with better performance, for £360. The size of the screen ultimately decides the price, not the quality.

[Howard]

So why can you buy a 20" TFT for ~£700 and a 17" for around £250? Surely 3" can't justify £450?

[Stoo]

20" & 16ms response, only one manufacturer (Benq) is currently making panels with better performance (12ms), but then they don't have the same resolution (1600*1200), and the resolution is the main thing I wanted.

So it's actually a combination of several factors, and the reason it costs so much more is the same as everything - once you get to a certain point it costs more and more for smaller and improvements.

In the case of TFT screens it's mainly the economy of scale, 20" screens are harder to produce, less screens are manufactured, therefore they cost more. It was the same with 17" panels (Someone I know paid over £700 for a 17" tft about two years ago, and that was cheap), those were silly prices compared to 15" panels, and it wasn't that long ago that the 20" panels were nearly £2000.

I did have a look at the 21" panels but they were around £1200.. now that's silly..

[Kezzer]

I want to get a 17" TFT but i would like a 19" I might have to check out how much an 18" is or something. I need something decent anyway.

[Stoo]

I wasn't impressed with the 18 & 19 inch screens, they didn't offer that much more than the 17 inchers, hence the 20 incher