I received my Philips 200W6CS yesterday and am pretty happy with it so far, Having a widescreen does make quite a difference to me. The colours seem set more vibrant on this but apart from them being smaller there is really no real difference in the clarity of them compared to the Videoseven screen updated from.
I have tested the gaming performance and it is much improved on Freedom Force there is only a little loss of focus if you move the mouse from one side of the screen to another across buildings but it does not blur colours or blacks like before, with Prince of Persia WW it's much improved too, Before the Prince had a black afterglow around him now there is nothing I can see.
The monitor does have the much talked about Backlight bleeding issue as on the Dell monitors (in all four corners when screen is displaying black) Picture included, and I can that see the black is not true black this was more noticeable in Doom3 as when I first run this game I had set the monitor to Native resolution in the OSD and it left large black bars on the sides of the screen (you can set to full screen which stretches the screen which at 1280x024 looked quite playable if it weren't for me only having 512mb this game needs at least 1GB to play smoothly I use to have 1GB installed but my new MB will only accept 2 of my 256mb DIMMs so new memory coming when i can )
It also has a one USB that is rather useful as did not have one there before! Tested it with my camera and had no problems. Also has a audio in and headphone socket both of these work well, The speakers on the monitor are louder than I thought they would be but of course cannot replace standalone speakers at all.
Overall pleased with this monitor is it well built that's for sure and i like how the stand is easy to adjust compared to my previous monitor so money well spent
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Getting jealous about people having usb's on their monitors! I wish I had one on mine. I know I could just buy a hub, but it's only very rarely I need an extra one. x
Jun 28th, 2006
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