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Upgrading LCD Worth It?
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I have a old Gateway 21in LCD bought in 2005 for $600. Games look great but DVD play back sucks. Now I see larger screens on sale for about $150 so is it worth upgrading to the newer LCD screens? Any recommendations on models that have great DVD playback?
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I had a similar problem with an 20.1 Dell I bought 5 or 6 years ago. It lost a ton of color/brightness, more noticeable during movies. You can play around with some of the settings in media player (or whatever) to work around some of the deficiencies. I ended up just paying another $150 for a new 23" monitor and feel that it's well worth the price, especially if you can run dual monitors.
I usually have the old monitor off for gaming/movies/day to day stuff. I only use the second for reading pdfs or work documents. It's really awesome being able to set the secondary to portrait mode specifically for documents.
They will always, however, be "cheap." As in TN panels make Baby Jesus cry with their simulated colors through dithering and viewing angles that don't say "anything other than dead center looks like crap, but you can still read text at 170*" on the box.
On the other hand, "nicer" panels like mine can have distracting ghosts during motion scenes on DVDs, and 480p expanded to higher resolutions without a good GPU can look funky. I dont regret my purchase however (roughly the same price as it shows atm, from 8mo ago,) given the viewing angle is constant all the way to the edge and the color reproduction is much better.
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Horizontal viewing angle on mine is excellent, it's the vertical one that sucks, but it's still $500 cheaper.
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tl;dr- You have a TN panel.
They don't sell KIAs here so I don't know what you're trying to say there. But I guess this along the lines of me not spending $2000 on some speakers because I'm not going to care about the barely noticeable quality difference between them and the $400 speakers I got instead.