Viewing Angle on Large LCD's

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:33:20 -0400, Garrett
<gdavidson.TakeThisOut@msu.edu> wrote:

>Hi all.
>
>I'm in the market to replace my old CRT with a new LCD, something in
>the 24" to 30" range. I do a lot of work in Photoshop.
>
>Most of the info I've found online seems to suggest that the viewing
>angle data supplied by manufacturers is less than accurate. Most of
>the user reviews I've read are to the effect that people like a wide
>variety of these large LCDs, but the viewing angle is just
>"satisfactory", at best. I haven't found any positive reviews when it
>comes to the viewing angle ratings.
>
>Does anyone here have a large LCD that excels in this area? Maybe it's
>a pipe dream, but I'd like one where the image doesn't fall apart if
>your head is slightly off center.

The viewing angle is the point at which a certain %
degradation is seen. With Photoshop image editing you want
to have NO degradation at all. Thus, even if/when a monitor
or TV has a better viewing angle than another monitor, the
viewing angle of either still matters enough in a critical
optically related task like image editing, that it doesn't
matter much which had a better "true" viewing angle, you
should always be dead-center in front of any monitor or TV
for this purpose which is of course a 0' viewing angle.

However, panels with better contrast and color reproduction,
two addt'l important factors for image editing, also tend to
have better viewing angles.

You ought to go to a store and look at a few, there's no
substitute.
 >> Stay informed about: Viewing Angle on Large LCD's