Eizo Flexscan L557???

[Thunder9]

Eizo has gained quite a reputation for quality in the past few years.
Now it seems they just sneaked out a new monitor the Flexscan L557.

It looks like its an improved L565.

Brochure
http://www.eizo.com/products/lcd/l557/contents.html

Comparison with L565
http://www.eizo.com/products/lcd/comparison/comp03.html

Better contrast ratio and 25ms response time....

Should I go with this (for movies, fun, and games but nothing too
serious) or should I go with a 20 ms response time monitor? Does it
really make that much of a difference?

Regards,
Thunder9

 

[SR]

Eizo has gained quite a reputation for quality in the past few years.

Now it seems they just sneaked out a new monitor the Flexscan L557.

It looks like its an improved L565.

Electronics and design (height adjustment) are improved
but the panel is not better.
The real L565 evolution is L567.

Brochure
http://www.eizo.com/products/lcd/l557/contents.html

Comparison with L565
http://www.eizo.com/products/lcd/comparison/comp03.html

Better contrast ratio and 25ms response time....

Should I go with this (for movies, fun, and games but nothing too
serious) or should I go with a 20 ms response time monitor? Does it
really make that much of a difference?

Don't care about paper specs.
L557 25ms MVA panel can be better with office applications
(slightly faster with text scrolling).
But the superb L565/7 S-IPS 35ms Hitachi panel is better for
anything other because the softer ghosting.

Until now....... no 16/20ms 17'' LCDs can beat its viewing angle,
color reproduction and professional grade regulations.

Someone will tell you 25ms is much faster than 35ms
because 35 - 25 = 10.
http://www.fme.fujitsu.com/products/displays/response_time.html

As you can see... the thing is a bit more complex.

Regards

 

[Alien Zord]

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http://www.fme.fujitsu.com/products/displays/response_time.html

As you can see... the thing is a bit more complex.

According to that page the most important parameter is the white to black
transition time. My 16ms NEC 1760 manages that in 4ms and sure enough fast
moving images and games look perfect. Where it leaves a bit to be desired is
the colour accuracy and its variation with vertical viewing angle. Overall I
still regard it as the best 17" LCD monitor on the market both aesthetically
and technically. However, I would love one with a 16:9 aspect ratio for
digital TV. The Samsung 172W is just too slow in comparison.

 

[SR]

According to that page the most important parameter is the white to black

transition time.

b/w transition is taken as reference,
but all colors are important to have smooth animations.

My 16ms NEC 1760 manages that in 4ms and sure enough fast
moving images and games look perfect. Where it leaves a bit to be desired is
the colour accuracy and its variation with vertical viewing angle. Overall I
still regard it as the best 17" LCD monitor on the market both aesthetically
and technically. However, I would love one with a 16:9 aspect ratio for
digital TV. The Samsung 172W is just too slow in comparison.

1760nx has 16ms AUO panel.
I'm sure is very nice (I've seen the Acer AL732 with same panel) but
they have had to do some compromise to obtain speed.
On the contrary, Eizo L565 is not a speed champion with
no-compromise quality.

I hope next year we can see LCDs with both high speed and quality... :-\

 

[Thunder9]

Electronics and design (height adjustment) are improved
but the panel is not better.
The real L565 evolution is L567.


Don't care about paper specs.
L557 25ms MVA panel can be better with office applications
(slightly faster with text scrolling).
But the superb L565/7 S-IPS 35ms Hitachi panel is better for
anything other because the softer ghosting.

What other good systems use the S-IPS 35ms Hitachi panel?

Until now....... no 16/20ms 17'' LCDs can beat its viewing angle,
color reproduction and professional grade regulations.

What is 20 ms technology based on? (Actually I created another post
specifically to ask this questioin...)

Someone will tell you 25ms is much faster than 35ms
because 35 - 25 = 10.
http://www.fme.fujitsu.com/products/displays/response_time.html

As you can see... the thing is a bit more complex.

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[Alien Zord]

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On the contrary, Eizo L565 is not a speed champion with
no-compromise quality.

But it suffers from smearing on fast moving images, surely that is a
compromise? I'd much rather have a reduction in colour resolution than
smearing.

 

[SR]

But it suffers from smearing on fast moving images, surely that is a

compromise?

Sorry for my english... :-\
I would say that L565 has high-quality image and not high speed.
In the case of Eizo this can't be called a compromise.

I'd much rather have a reduction in colour resolution than smearing.

Anyone have his needs.
I prefer to have smearing than color reduction. ;-)

 

[SR]

What other good systems use the S-IPS 35ms Hitachi panel?

I don't know...... :-\
But L567 is features rich (except pivot).

What is 20 ms technology based on? (Actually I created another post
specifically to ask this questioin...)

Hyundai make and use a 20ms 17'' panel.
I don't like reviews..........
but Tom's Hardware say it look faster than 16ms Acer.

Also the new Acer AL1731 have 20ms.

 

[Khuli]

But it suffers from smearing on fast moving images, surely that is a
compromise?

I've never noticed that on mine. But then I mostly play BF1942 & C&C
Generals etc so maybe their images don't move fast enough....