27-inch IPS displays from Korea

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Ah man :o

If your looking for an awesome big screen monitor this will have you drooling :p

If you frequent our forums or other PC enthusiast-focused corners of the web, you may have heard the whispers about the new breed of monitors being sold in Korea under various brand names for astonishingly low prices. They sound almost too good to be true: expansive 27" displays at the formidable resolution of 2560x1440 selling for peanuts, between $300 and $400, well under half the price of a similar display from the likes of Dell.

Not only that, but they're purportedly based on LCD panels that use IPS technology, the standard for high-end displays. IPS panels typically offer much better color reproduction and much wider viewing angles than the cheap TN panels that have dominated the low end of the monitor market—and nearly the entire laptop market—for several dark, sad years. (One day, we will look back on the TN's panel dominance and, heh, be unable to make out the image.)
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I ordered my monitor via an eBay listing like this one. The monitor is a "First" brand, model FSM-270YG LED. The deal is laid out there: you pay $337 for the monitor, and express shipping worldwide is included in the price.
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You're probably ready for me to tell you about the rainbows of ecstasy shooting into my eye sockets, and I can testify, when I first turned on the display, that's pretty much what happened. The visual impact upon firing up this baby is formidable. The pixel pitch is smaller than almost any other desktop display I own, and the glossy anti-glare coating on the screen doesn't diffuse light like the coating on most older monitors. The result is awesome crispness and definition. The colors really pop, too, with none of the fakey over-saturation and lack of subtlety you'll find on most TN panels. My eyes immediatelly began soaking up the fluid, crystalline eye candy and transmitting its sweetness to my brain. If you don't want to be tempted to buy one of these things, do not look at one in the face. And especially do not browse through a series of beautiful 2560x1440 images at InterfaceLift. If you do, you're doomed.
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Seriously tempted by this thing even though I have more monitors than I can use already.

I hate TN tech. SO. MUCH.
 
Praeses said:
Why exactly? My PX2370 has quite a nice display for a TN panel methinks. What makes IPS so much better? I've never seen one in action, obviously :p
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You've just answered your own question.

Basically the most irritating thing about TN panels is the way the colours shift when you look at it from even slighty different angles, as in you see it when moving your head ever so slightly. And on even a 24", it might look right in the middle, but colours are washed out around the edges. Also the colours aren't that great to begin with. It doesn't seem so bad because you get used to it, your brain learns to adapt. But when you see a proper display next to it for comparison (even an S-PVA), you can never go back.

In the same way you might not think your TV has crappy speakers, until you've had a home theatre system, you'll never be satisfied with the low-quality built-in crap again.
 
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TJ99 said:
You've just answered your own question.

Basically the most irritating thing about TN panels is the way the colours shift when you look at it from even slighty different angles, as in you see it when moving your head ever so slightly. And on even a 24", it might look right in the middle, but colours are washed out around the edges. Also the colours aren't that great to begin with. It doesn't seem so bad because you get used to it, your brain learns to adapt. But when you see a proper display next to it for comparison (even an S-PVA), you can never go back.

In the same way you might not think your TV has crappy speakers, until you've had a home theatre system, you'll never be satisfied with the low-quality built-in crap again.
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Built-in speakers are terrible inventions. Guess I should find an IPS panel to go have a look at it!
 
It's a shame that we can't get those high resolution 27" IPS panels for that price here in SA. I'd definitely replace my 2x 23" screens with one of those if I could source them at like under R3500 in SA!
 
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