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Daewoo Rival Dell with Bargain 30'' LCD

Vincent Alzieu
October 21, 2008 4:52 PM
If you enjoyed our test of a new 30'' monitor from Dell but can't quite stomach the 2 000 USD / 1 645 GBP starting price, then you might be interested in this Daewoo model we've found online for just 760 euros (around 1000 USD / 590 GBP).

It's available from French retailer Izprice, here.

We've not tested this screen, as Daewoo have made clear that they don't want us to consider their products after a nasty incident involving a two-star review. 

Obviously, it's up to them if they don't want to send samples to our labs for testing, although we're always disappointed not to be able to give you as full a picture as possible of the state of the marke ...

And without bigging ourselves up too much, any criticisms that we make of a product aren't just for the sake of it and should be able to help manufacturers do better next time.

And for half the price?

Let's have a look then at what you can expect from this new Daewoo model, even if we don't have one in front of s.

As with other 30 inch screens, its native resolution is 2560 x 1600, although you'll need a powerful graphics card with a DVI Dual Link port to profit from this resolution.

The panel it includes has a response time of 8 ms, leading us to think that it features either PVA or IPS technology.

It's by far the most likely that the former is true--and it's only the fact that we can't confirm it that prevents us from saying definitively that it is a PVA--which means that it will probably behave a little like the Samsung 305T, which we have tested.

It produced blacks of around 0.2 cd/m² with brightness at 135 cd/m², giving a contrast ratio of 675:1, noticeably better than the Dell 3008WFP with its IPS panel which we tested today. 

Elsewhere in the Product Face-Off between the Samsung and Dell 30'' LCDs, things are very much a draw: Samsung has better color handling with its PVA panel, but Dell's IPS has the upper hand when it comes to viewing angles.

How the Daewoo performs on these tests, of course, remains to be seen.

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