Anyone tried this monitor yet? DELL Sp2309w

Diabollokus · Post by **Diabollokus** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 12:37 am

Came across this quite recently its about £100 cheaper than the 24 inch samsung I use, I'm tempted to recommend to a friend for his xbox 360.

Crazy stats for the price, 2ms response time etc, anyone seen it in action?

heres a link to an example

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 45fffdf4e2

Fudoh · Post by **Fudoh** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 1:40 am

Seems nonsense to me for console gaming. The display has a native resolution of 2048 x 1152, so even if you feed it with Full HD the display has to rescale the input signal. Also watch out for a possible input lag and not only look at the response time.

ZOM · Post by **ZOM** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 2:32 am

What Fudoh said; Since most PS3/X360 games have a res of 720p(many of them have a even lower vertical resolution),
that display has some serious upscaling to do...

And this whole 2ms business seems more of a marketing gimmick to me then anything else:
I still don't see a difference from a 5ms display to a 2ms one.

Diabollokus · Post by **Diabollokus** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 9:45 pm

Yeah I had noticed the native issue, Do you think its better to go for the VGA/DVI route with a typical 19-21 inch PC monitor for 720p, from a value perspective?

Fudoh · Post by **Fudoh** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 11:37 pm

As Zom said, it doesn't matter for 720p output as it has to be scaled anyway, but there are 1080p games and you can still set the 360's output to 1080p even if the games are internally running at 720p or less. This way no scaling has to be done in a "normal" display at all. There are SO many good priced displays in the 24" category (Samsung's hitting the 200GBP as well) and every single one BUT this one has a horizontal resolution of 1920 instead of 2048. I just wouln't take the chances with this one. There are many graphics cards on the PC which won't do 2048x... so you'd likely run into trouble at some point with some video source.