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JT! Wrote:How does ghosting bother you in web browsing?

Scrolling up/down pages creates a very noticeable smearing effect on most LCD monitors. Black text on white backgrounds or vice versa are what make the effect so noticeable. Black and white are the two extremes of the voltage range so they take the longest time to transition between vs. any other combination of colors. Which is why we used to measure pixel response times in black to white transition time before companies started cheating to make their specs. look better than they really were.

JT! Wrote:I'm still happy with my choice even after the info provided, providing the ghosting isn't an issue. I don't really notice a difference over the ISP and TN panels I have now. But maybe that's just because I've never use a monitor with really low response times and I'm just ignorant on the subject... same goes with input lag.

Your TN monitor likely has very low response times and input lag.

As far as your IPS HDTV goes "it depends". Most input lag is produced by internal image processing done by the displays control panel/microprocessor, not the panel itself. As such it varies a lot from one model to another even if they use the exact same panel. In general though HDTVs tend to have significantly more input lag than monitors due to more extensive image processing features. A lot of HDTV manufacturers are starting to take note of this and include a special "game mode" setting in the OSD menu of their newer models to turn off the higher latency features. Basically they range from slightly higher than an IPS monitor too massively higher depending on the model. Interestingly enough the cheaper HDTVs tend to have lower input lag since they have less image processing features.

As far as response times go again it depends. Response times have a fairly wide range from model to model as well. They tend to be fairly low in HDTVs since they are considered an important spec. for TV/movie viewing. Especially for sports.

JT! Wrote:I'll have to play about with it when the TV comes back into cables reach (wife moved it out to the living room, and when I say "wife" I mean me, and now she wants it back in the bedroom *urgh*).

How's the backbone doing? Any new shapes you can contort into yet

New monitor all set up. 1" extra size is only a little noticeable. Switching from VGA to HDMI appears to be better. Now I can watch blurays. I HAVE MY BLACKS BACK! No issue with ghosting. Color seems good too.

I've been playing about with smooth video project. It's amazing. Almost unbelievable how much of a difference it makes, however watching movies with it on is quite strange. I see what people mean with the 'soap opera effect'. But it's great for watching gaming videos etc.

My only problem is getting it to work with blurays. Seems svp can only work with certain media players and getting blurays to play is difficult to. Anyone know of a player that will play blurays as well as working with svp?

Oh come on! Spent 15 seconds on google. It's not like this is some obscure question that you won't get hundreds of relevant results to. Here, have 4 results from the 1st page:
http://www.svp-team.com/wiki/Quick_start
http://www.gpforums.co.nz/thread/446702/1/
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=288017
http://tehparadox.com/forum/f28/%5Bhow-%5D-motion-interpolation-like-4056250/

TL DR: Use MPC-HC (media player classis home cinema) with one of the motion interpolation plugins (svp included). It plays blu-rays. But then again so does virtually every other popular media player so I don't even really know why this is an issue since you haven't told me which media players you've tried to use. MPC is apparently recommended by the svp wiki beginner guide so it definitely works with it.

NV, honestly I did search. Media Classic won't play blu-rays. "Open disc" is grayed out, and every other 'open' option doesn't get me anywhere.

Also getting an anyDVD to work is another mountain to climb.

EDIT: Any dvd seems to start magically working on media cplayer classic so it's all good now! Thanks!

So finally got my displayport to hdmi converter. Switched out the BenQ monitor to the converted HDMI, connected the sony tv to HDMI. Text looked terrible on the sony until it switched it to full pixel, now everything looks great!