[Talk] Re: perfect display?

[Danny Rathjens]

I received the benq fp241w this week.  It's quite awesome.
The color reproduction is almost as good as CRT.  Just a bit
of color difference due to viewing angle if you move too close
to the screen your angle to sides is higher.
I watched a bunch of 1920x1080p movie trailers at native resolution.
The movie "300" looks like it will be great. :)

I was too impatient, though.  I ordered it from newegg after the first
person reported they got one with the updated firmware.  They sent me
one made in October which has the old firmware.  So now I have to ship
it to benq so they can do the firmware update (it requires special hardware).

Danny Rathjens wrote:
> Over the holiday I think I finally found my perfect display.
> I wanted to replace the 19" CRT monitor and 19" TV in my room with a single
> display that I could use for PC, HD digital cable, and gaming console.
> 
> After gobs of research I think I finally found the best one.
> It is a BenQ (the company that made dell's lcds now has their own line) 
> FP241W
> It's 24" 1920x1200, with good response time, contrast, brightness and best
> of all, gobs of input choices, like dvi, composite, component and hdmi
> and it's also HDCP compliant(which will be more important in the future
> with more and more encrypted digital content and may be a problem for
> us linux folks)
> The one drawback is that they messed up and didn't include aspect ratio
> scaling in models made before december, so 16:9 or 4:3 is awkwardly
> stretched to 16:10.  As soon as someone confirms that they have the new 
> firmware
> shipped from a reputable online source, I am going to buy one.
> newegg and a few other places have them for $800.
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824014124
> 
> I also finally crossed upgrading my home pc off my procrastination list.
> I bought all the parts from newegg.  They have 500GB SATAII samsung 
> spinpoint
> hard drivess for only $150, now!  Terabytes of space are finally in easy 
> range.  :)
>