want a 19" LCD for about $300. where and what to buy? what LCD monitors are recommended and what specifications should i make as a minimum requirement (eg the ms refresh rates and shiz).
Cheers big ears

FP91G @ 399 is always the winner.

$300? Impossible!

Agreed with reso hard pressed getting 19' for $300, get a 4-8ms 17' for that price tho, save bit more and get a polyview 19' widescreen 8-)

I managed to get a Samsung SyncMaster 913v (19", 12ms response time) for $495, though you'll probably be hard pressed to find one for that cheap, as I got mine at mates rates. Keep an eye out though, they're a good monitor.

But as has been said, $300 probably wont get you a very good 19" LCD. If you get one for that price, it'll have a s***ty response time.

I think i'll go with this one...i got use for the pen but not the headphones. Ill just put the phones on ebay...suits me fine.

19inch CMV TFT BLA/SIL CM-934D 8ms SPECIAL MUST BE PURCHASED w/ ASTONE 512meg PEN and H/S
Item Code monCMct_934d
19inch CMV TFT monitor BLACK SILVER Model CM-934D

ZERO DEAD PIXEL WARRANTY 7 DAYS
CURRENT SPECIAL MUST BE PURCHASED WITH ASTONE 512meg PEN $69

and
LASER HEADSET with Mic $19


FANTATIC VALUE! THATS THE PRICE OF A 17" 8ms GAMING TFT PANEL!

Super brightness
Really wide viewing angle
Slim & Light weight, 5.1 kg
Excellent image quality
Fast response
Input Interface D-Sub/DVI-D
Pixel Pitch 0.294 mm
Resolution 1280 x 1024 / SXGA
Display Color 16.2 M
Brightness 320 cd/m2
Contrast Ratio 500 : 1
Viewing Angle Horizontal 160¢ª
Vertical 130¢ª
Scan Rate Horizontal 30~82 KHz
Vertical 56~76 Hz
Display Area 376 x 301 mm
Response Time 8 ms (Tr+Tf)
Power Source Stand-Alone AC Adapter 100~240VAC, 50/60Hz (Output: 19VDC, 3.42A)
Weight 5.1 kg (Including Stand)
Tilt Angle 0¢ª ~ 20¢ª
Speakers 2.5W x 2
Wall Mount VESA Standard
Dimension W x H x D 418mm x 439mm x 210mm
Power Consumption 58W
Power Saving State 2W
Kensington Lock
Color Silver Black


Price $ 349

last edited by Zylox at 18:08:03 08/Dec/05

Cheap != good.

remember that when it breaks and you come back here crying.

That CMV doesn't have very good brightness specs and the contrast is only adequate by today's standards. And it has a reduced number of colours.

Still, at $349 it will be ok.

You could buy a much better 17" panel for the same money and get the same maximum resolution btw.

Orb's with the truth, better believe it

When ya take it home and find dead pixels you will cry, cmv have no pixel warrenty from memory, strange thing is Polyview think make the same screens but now have 0 dead pixel 30 day warrenty....

also good luck with game dudes rma policy's...(me laughs)


last edited by 0z at 18:03:04 09/Dec/05

So what's the deal with the widescreen monitors?

As in compatability with games etc. Is Word like super stretched wide, same with websites or do they just have lots of vacant space down the sides?

So many questions..........

From what I can gather, vacant space for normal Windows applications. It's actually pretty cool having a browser and another program open side-by-side.

For full-screen applications like games, you'd want to make sure the game supports your non-standard resolution (id/Valve games do) or a custom resolution, or else the program/game will be stretched as well as low-quality (due to lack of running at native resolution)

going to do my computer purchase soon and this is the 19" im eyeing ... definitely not $300 though

$589 at Umart Samsung 930BF 19 inch LCD Monitor 4ms

last edited by Captain America at 03:07:54 10/Dec/05

Been trying to find something for the past week. Although I am looking for 8ms or less and 16.7m colours. So far apart from the $700+ monitors, the TCL seems to be the only one that meets those criteria and is under $500. Unfortunately I have seen no review on it and all and it looks kinda dodgy so will wait a bit.

last edited by shad at 04:30:28 10/Dec/05

When ya take it home and find dead pixels you will cry, cmv have no pixel warrenty from memory, strange thing is Polyview think make the same screens but now have 0 dead pixel 30 day warrenty....

wtf, i think you will find that CMV and Polyview are the same company, CMV is the premium Panels and carry a full 30 day Zero Dead Pixel Warranty, which is courier delieved direct swaps. Polyview models are the next graded panels down, and have a much lower pixel swap warranty.

Secondly CMV supply alot of other manufacturers with there panels(lower grade then the cmv branded ones), and for the comment with regards to cmv having lower colors, i doubt u will find a cheap panel out there today with the full 16.7(8bit) million colors while still having a decent response rate and staying under $600, with the majority of them all 16.2(6bit). which for gaming is completly adequet.

I have the CMV 19" LCD screen myself, and i find it to be an excellent monitor for the price $460 i believe i got it for. Colors are fine, Brightness is fine, Response rate is great and works excellent in games. The viewing angles arent the biggest there are, but i have a widescreen tv to watch movies, my pc is for net/games/office.

oh and dear god make sure you enable Cleartype of Truetype fonts in your operating system, it makes text documents look so much frigen better.

I've dealt with alot of the CMV monitors.

I find that there brightness level is usually too high if anything. Contrast level is low.

CMV's jack up the brightness level as a selling point, bad thing is overtime the backlight will die due to this.

Also you will get a fairly noticable glow around the edge of the screen on a black/dark screen.

They are also known for being able to burn an image onto them fairly easily.

Seriously your monitor is probably your longest lasting component...so why skimp on it and buy an inferior product??