Help needed!!!

[marcdadrummer]

Hey.. my dell screen, bought in a long years ago.. has finally gave way after hitting it with my water bottle when it won't start up - well it gave halfwayway and now im using my screen half to type this message...

the other half is 1/4 blacn at rainbow colour on the rest...

so i need a replacement asap.. and since i don't see any stickied i hope some of u guys can give some insight to some LCD monitors out there...

Im basically looking for a 19" screen.. but i need advice on which's good and not...

qn: why are 19" widescreen cheaper than normal 19" screens???

i found the dell 19" widescreen at 262 the cheapest among all with home delivery the next business day... what do u guys thing??

cheers.. and ur advice is forwarded with a thousand thank yous

 

[blueprintstudios]

straight reference to your post :

1) your LCD monitor's confirm F&@Ked. if it's been more than 1 year / 3 years depends on the warranty you were started with.

recently bought a 19 inch phillips widescreen at $325. (3 years warranty)

I don't know why wide screen is cheaper than normal 19" maybe because the weird way it makes your windows look?

your dell 19" widescreen is a confirmed good deal if it's 3 years warranty too.

if only 1 year you might as well stick with phillips. I have phillips 15 inch CRT monitors that serve faithfully for the past 5 to 6 years. way out of warranty but still doing well. so my vote's with phillips.

50cents worth.

 

[marcdadrummer]

wow thanks mate...

i got insider info that dell lcd's are actually made by phillips and that they buy it from them and just dubbed the name to dell...

yeah my screen's probably 4 years old.. and it keeps getting on and off...

hmm philips.. will look into it. thanks

 

[gutturalpiss]

do take note that widescreen monitors have smaller area than their letterbox counterparts. that is the main reason why they are cheaper.

Recommended list:

http://forums.hardwarezone.com/showthread.php?t=1233319

 

[marcdadrummer]

hey thanks man.. the list says they recommend widescreen ones... 1440x900...

thinking of dell or acer at the moment...

and what do u mean by do take note that widescreen monitors have smaller area than their letterbox counterparts. ???

thanks for all the help

 

[gutturalpiss]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widescreen

A 16:10 monitor with the same diagonal size has 6.8% less area, meaning that you buy less screen space in total. A 16:9 monitor with the same diagonal size has 12.3% less area than standard aspect ratio display.

Simply put, in pixel terms compare 1280x1024 (4:3) and 1280x800 (16:10) Get one which can rotate..very useful. Why not go for atleast a 20 incher? The Dell FP series is superb..If I'm not wrong the 20" and onwards are able to rotate/swivel.