Briefly: Dell, Apple, Samsung, Mitsubishi etc LCD
If you’re looking for a widescreen LCD monitor, you may have noticed that both Dell and Apple sell 20″ widescreen displays that are similarly spec’d. You may wonder how they’re different and which one is better. Well, if thoughts like this are wandering through your brain today, check out the comparative review of these two LCD monitors over at AnandTech. To summarize: the monitors are VERY close in quality with almost nothing to choose between them, but the Dell is much cheaper so buy it.
Link: AnandTech - The 20″ LCD Shootout: Dell versus Apple
Huge! Big! Large! TV! At 67″, Samsung’s 67″ DLP RPTV is rather humongous, and is a 1080p set. Only (?) $6,199.
Link: engadget - The HL-R6768W, Samsung’s 67-inch DLP TV
And PC World magazine is taking a look at a bunch of smaller LCD TVs of late, here they are, listed by decreasing score (highest first):
Link: PC World - Mitsubishi LT-3050
Link: PC World - Sharp Aquos LC-32G4U
Link: PC World - Samsung LT-P326W
Link: PC World - LG Electronics DU-30LZ30
Link: PC World - ViewSonic N3000w
Link: PC World - Panasonic TC-32LX20
Link: PC World - Syntax Olevia LT30HV
Link: PC World - JVC LT-32X575
Check out our new sister blog on Home Theater, HTBlog.net
April 30th, 2005 at 1:59 pm
There are a few more details that will affect people’s decisions to choose between the Apple and Dell 20″ displays:
- aesthetic: I think the Apple display is much sexier
- inputs: Unless you know you will only ever use the DVI input, you will have to go with the Dell, which supports DVI, D-sub, S-video, and composite! The Apple only has DVI.
May 2nd, 2005 at 3:01 pm
I was looking at the reviews from PCWorld just now and noticed something. Under the full specs, I see the headings “Broadcast Format Supported” and “Broadcast Format Displayed”. Does this have to do with your current blog about “When is 720p not 720p”? Does this mean that both the Mitsubishi and the Sharp LCD HDTVs really downconvert the displays of HD content to 480p?
Also, what is the overall benefit of higher resolution on a display for HDTV? The Sharp TVs have some of the highest resolution to date, but how does that make 1080p, 1080i, and 720p better? I understand how on computers with graphics it makes the “real estate” larger and the amount of what can be shown greater, but how does it really affect HDTV?
May 2nd, 2005 at 3:23 pm
I think that “supported” is the resolutions that these devices accept, and “displayed” is the resolutions at which they can be displayed. Any input source has to be converted to a display’s supported resolution. Frankly, I’m surprised to see 480i as one of the display formats. Can anybody shed some light on what they mean? The only thing I can think of, and I think that this may indeed be the case now that I remember what my laptop does, is that they just display a 480 line image in the middle of the display, with blank around it.
And yes, it looks like issues brought up in my “720p” blog entry would apply here as well, although it’s looking like it may not be as big an issue as I was led to believe.