I need help with a purchase I made.
I'm on a budget and I bought an Asus 23 inch monitor from Amazon but only when it got home and I turned on I noticed this display was not IPS. It is a good monitor overall with 1MS response time for games and 80.000.000:1 contrast with speakers and 2 HDMI inputs..
Question is.. should I return it and get one with IPS? Not sure if IPS only affects viewing angle or if color reproduction is also better with IPS.
The model I bought is this one... What do you guys think??
Thanks in advance..
http://www.amazon.com/VX238H-23-Inc...id=1369252593&sr=8-5&keywords=asus+23+monitor
As someone who does high end professional image editing that monitor is a complete peice of trash, and it's specs are completely misrepresented nonsense.
It isn't even close to calibrated. Do not even consider using that as a monitor for any sort of editing.
IPS doesn't make a huge difference at all when it comes to image editing, nor do most of the features display makers try to get you to care about. The word that you want when shopping for a minitor is "
calibrated" if this isn't in the description, do not even consider it.
Calibration, especially pre-calibration makes the biggest difference in monitor quality by far, and it's one of the most time consuming and expensive steps in making a display:
Here's an example that is an understatement of what you can expect between a calibrated and uncalibrated monitor (the example is a scenario where you'd start with an already decent monitor).
Also, don't listen to those people that tell you that you can calibrate your monitor with a USB device you buy for a few hundred bucks either. I've bought plenty of these from 5 seperate manufacturers and tested each one on at least 2 displays. These things can get within a vague ballpark of what is "calibrated" but more often than not they are way off the mark. I have never seen one do a job that isn't visibly way off the mark, under $3,500. Yes you need a $3,500 tool to calibrate a monitor properly. In fact the image above is about the difference between what I see with a Sony refference OLED monitor verified for calibration with a minolta display color analyzer. ($20,000 package), and what an xrite i1display gave me as the "proper calibration" (which it changed it's mind on repeatedly fyi),
So get a monitor that is calibrated FROM THE FACTORY.
If you're looking for something cheap, this is the cheaptest one I'd go with, it's well worth the investment:
http://www.amazon.com/PA248Q-24-Inc...aphics/dp/B008DWH00K/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
I realize that you're on a budget and this one is 60% more expensive ($300 vs $180) than the one you posted but it's really worth the upgrade.
All the buzzwords you quoted from the specs of the monitor you posted are more or less BS and you can ignore them.
"1MS response time for games and 80.000.000:1 contrast"
Both of these figures are falsified and only in theory, and are streteched so far beyond the truth it's insulting. We're talking about the equivalent of putting out an ad for a Honda Civic and saying that it's zero to sixty time is 1/10th of a second* (*1/10th fo a second when accelerationg as payload of a space rocket). Those numbers are more than a thousand times off their real ratio. If you had a monitor with an 80 million to 1 contrast and 1ms "response time", for that price you'd essentially have a product that prints money.
The closest a real monitor gets to those insulting lies they call specs is Sony's professional refference OLED displays, which run $26,000 for the 25 inch version and $15,000 for the 17 inch version, those monitors do 480hz (which is 2.08 ms), and have 1,000,000:1 conrast. And that's not in theory that's in the real world.
So if the BS specs were real, they could charge 2 million dollars per monitor.
Hope that helps.