A question about resolution & screen size

Skittle

Hi all.
Just thought I'd throw this out there. I've noticed that the native resolution for most 20" Widescreen LCD screens is 1650 x 1050, however this is also the native resolution for most 22" displays aswell. Since there's the same number of LCD pixels in the 22" & 20" screens, does it mean that the 20" LCDs are sharper as they have smaller cells than the 22" version?

Anti

Nope, it till not look any sharper on a 20"

awhir

it should as the pixels on a 22" would be streched more then a 20".

but wouldent say its noticable.

Anti

on a 20" or 22" widescreen there is 1,732,500 pixels. You will difference if the panel types are different. Atm the main panels types are:

TN+Film, P-MVA, S-PVA, S-IPS and AS-IPS.

What you should be looking for is the contrast ratio, 700:1 is the lowest you should go. Then you have pixel responce too. Which is either from Grey to Grey, or Rise to fall. 8/12ms should be the highest you should go. But one screen that reports as 8ms can ghost compared to a monitor with 12ms.

In this months issue of pcformat there is a good test on widescreen monitors so pick yaself up a copy.

Skittle

Ok, well here's two which look identical (except for the contrast ratio), and the screen size. They both have the same resolution and the same response time.

Samsung 20" LCD Syncmaster 206BW TCO03, 1680x1050, 2ms, 3000:1

Samsung 22" LCD Syncmaster 226BW TCO03, 1680x1050, 2ms, 3000:1

Anti

id go with the 22"

big_moe

yeah, even though they have the same number of pixels the difference in sharpness between a 20" and a 22" is unnoticable.

get the 22".

moe

shanethemofo

22" would be better for gaming or editing as since the pixels are larger then it gives a better chance of accuracy (i.e in designing graphics or shooting heads from long ranges )

shanethemofo

just make sure your graphics card can handle high resolutions