Dell 2209WA vs. Samsung 226BW

Test Dell 2209WA on the left vs. Samsung 226BW on the right.
Both connected via DVI

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• Dell
• 2209WA
• VS
• Samsung
• 226BW
• Panel
• eIPS
• TN
• TFT
• Test
• Review

[silentzero7]

I am interested in the DELL 2209WA but I heard a lot of some noice when the brightness is not 100%, how are your experience with this?

[higedigdag]

@silentzero7 i have now noise-problems :) maybe it is not on all devices

[Arenovalis]

I used to have a 226BW for years, but now that I have a really good monitor (Dell U2410) I realize how shitty the 226BW in reality was. The colours are not too accurate or anything, the only good thing about it is the responsiveness.

[MegaStuff]

It has an LG panel...

[belynochka]

дорого много брака, это и напрягает.

покупать только с наценкой при проверке в магазине.

[JoeyJoeJoe5000]

@silentzero7 The 226BW was barely a decent monitor. I owned one, but it crapped the bed, and even this brand new TN panel from Acer shits all over the 226 even when it was new.

[JoeyJoeJoe5000]

The 226BW sucks ass. I own one, and they are also notorious for shitting the bed after just one or 2 years like mine did, it started flickering, and now it has this vomit looking reddish brown tint, that monitor is done for. I bought a new Acer 22" TN display, and it's 1000 times better then the 226bw ever was. TN panels are evidently still improving.

[63Jax]

@SlLENTHlLL yep, OLED are super fast but they are expensive as a good car and we wont see them on pc monitor market very soon, unfortunately. and they still have problems with blue diodes which dies faster than the others. there is an Samsung XL 30'' which uses RGB leds, but again the PRICE and is oriented only to pros. viewing angles on an LCD will never be as good like an CRT, and is the resolution problem they only have 1 good native resolution which is absurd. we wait to see what PLS brings

[SlLENTHlLL]

@63Jax hmmm... I just read this "OLED can have less than a 0.01ms response time." --- sounds good.

[SlLENTHlLL]

@63Jax

We'll probably have to wait for OLED to get good viewing angles without any glow/hue or other weird stuff happening... but I won't be surprised if OLED turns out to be really slow or something... like it have a huge input lag or slow response time.

A real RGB-LED (full backlit array, not sidelit) should also create good viewing angles, but so far all LED displays are just sidelit and not RGB... just white.

[SlLENTHlLL]

@63Jax

So... while it may be argued that IPS possibly have better viewing angles than PVA... because of steadier color... that is rendered meaningless when you look from even just a tiny angle and the screen starts turning whiter... so in effect they don't really have good viewing angles.

I was at some store..... they had a ~$5000 TV there, and the viewing angles were shit... so pathetic.

No way that Samsung or anyone else is gonna create CRT-like angles on an LCD anytime soon...

[63Jax]

right, S-PVA doesn't suffer from the purple hue you see on IPS and TN on a black screen which is a very good thing, it is a pity IPS doesn't solved the problem yet, the glow is annoying as hell.

[SlLENTHlLL]

@63Jax

Yeah, all LCDs (including VA panels) have crappy viewing angles compared to CRT... but IPS have that weird glow thing going on... it's so annoying. Search for "IPS glow" (for lack of a better term) here.

VA panels have also have that glow OR RATHER it's not really a glow to begin with but just some effect that appears as if it's glowing... on IPS that is... on VA it's less pronounced and instead of glowing (white or some other color) it turns darker instead, which is less annoying.

[63Jax]

@SlLENTHlLL ...not quite right, ips is the master of viewing angles and color reproduction while pva is good on blacks and contrast, they suffer a bit of color distortion on extreme angles and are also slower than ips. there's a new matrix type from Samsung, S-PLS which has all the good qualities from both of those. anyway they're light ears away from TN shit, which i have now...