Roundup: 22-Inch LCD Monitors : LG Flatron L227WTG
7. LG Flatron L227WTG
Large Stand--But It Slides
This monitor is wrapped inside a simple and elegant case, and the base it rests on can, at first glance, seem a little too bulky. In fact, the stand often looks like it would be more suited on a 24'' or a 28'' screen.
The extra space that it takes up is worthwhile, though, as it allows the monitor to slide up and down through a range of around six inches.
It's an option that has become rarer and rarer on 22'' LCDs, but it makes a welcome return here: bringing the screen up or down to meet your eye level is a lot better than piling it up on old magazines!
At last, the LG Flatron L227WTG is a worthy competitor to the Samsung T220HD!
In fact, it even beats Samsung's screen in some regards, with a faster response time, more accurate color handling and nice extras like a height-adjustable stand and a USB hub.
Handling
In general, the connectivity and handling of this monitor are above average for the 22'' LCD monitor work, with DVI and VGA inputs, a height-adjustable stand and a sleek glossy black case.While it would be nice to see features like a webcam, a card reader or HDMI and Display Port inputs, all these features cost a lot more, so it would be unfair to be too disappointed by the more affordable 22'' monitors.
Gaming
When it comes to gameplay, the most important statistic on this monitor is its 2 ms response time. However, experience has shown that plenty of monitors advertised as having a 2 ms response time are far closer to 5 ms, or else suffer from some other defect, such as a high input lag.
It seems our fears were unfounded with the L227WTG, which is one of the fastest, most responsive screens we've seen. Color images only trail 0.45 frames behind, which is one of the best performances on a 22'' screen, very close to the Samsung 2253BW's excellent 0.35 frames.
There was no reverse ghosting, either, when we were playing games or using our testcard. There was, though, a minor input lag of around 23 ms, only a frame behind, and there aren't many monitors that can beat that.
If you hadn't already guessed it, this is an excellent screen. The final check was its handling of colors and contrast with its default settings, and we weren't disappointed. It's not just us, either: our lab tests proved that this monitor delivers great results straight out oof the box.
The average discrepancy between the colors requested by the graphics card and those actually shown, the deltaE score, was as low as 2.2, an incredibly good reading. As you can see below, the results in the gray rendering test speak for themselves, with a barely perceptible distinction between the ideal colors and those actually shown; we're a long way from the blue or red dominance that spoils so many other monitors.
If we're going to be picky, then we should add that we would have preferred a deeper black and better contrast. When whites are shown at 200 cd/m², our standard test setting, black is at 0.28 cd/m²--or twice as bright as on the best of the competition. The result is a contrast ratio of 715:1, which, although good, isn't as excellent as some of the other scores for this screen.
One final complaint
While the most efficient 22'' LCDs use around 30 W to show an image at 200 cd/m², this Flatron is a touch greedy with its 40 W power consumption.
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It's far from perfect, but LG's L227WTG is a new standard when it comes to 22'' LCDs as far as we're concerned. Ghosting is limited, colors are accurate and it's highly customizable thanks to its height-adjustable stand.
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wait...wheres the conclusion
I am a HUGE fan of LG's flatron monitors. They're generally very competitively priced for the quality you get.
One word of advice though, Dont buy a monitor online unless it has a zero-dead pixel guaranty as well as free return shipping. With the extremely high pixel counts of today's LCDs, the odds of getting a dead pixel are actually quite high, so the ability to take it back to the store and exchange it without any fees is a real benefit.
Need to see data, not just "record-breaking response times." A few of the monitors have some numbers but others have nothing more than a description.
I second the blue dominance on the 2253BW as well. It's a shocker unless you reduce the blue to almost nothing.
I have the Samsung 2253BW. They are right about the color and view angles. Took me a full day tinkering just to get the colors and positioning the way I wanted... big PITA. Once all setup its pretty nice. Best use as a gaming screen, built in hand drip makes moving around easy too.
I found the 2253BW has bad buttons and bad button positions. My "menu" button doesn't really work and since you can't see any of the buttons it can be hard to find them sometimes.
Thanks for the review. It helped me select which LCD Monitor worked best for me.
Maybe I'm the only Toms reader not up on my display type acronyms, but TN could have been briefly defined prior to using it on every page of this writeup. For those also not in the loop it's Twisted Nematic.
Aren't Dell LCDs just rebadged?
I dislike the trend to adding cheap speakers in all monitors above like 22" makes me feel like i'm paying for something i'll never use.
which one the model that has true 24 bits color?
I've got the samsung 2233rz 120hz refresh. GREAT GAMING MONITOR. Plus the 3d with Nvidia is awesome. Some good games are Mass Effect, Fallout 3 and Left 4 Dead. Mass effect is the most visually pleasing of them all, but Left 4 dead is the most fun to use it with.
Also, it's about time that TOMS finally did a piece that GAMERS might be interested in. By the way, your new GPU charts stink, I don't want subcatagories of high end and low end, just the GPU's for the last 3 years. If you want, color code the charts to price brackets or better yet, Generations of models.
You guys have lost touch with what gamers want. Plus your website was extremely laggy on the few articles I found interesting in the last month.
Hi Toms
How about a roundup in the 24 inch class.Many of us feel a 24 is the way to go?Please Consider.Thank-You for this articles non the less.
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I'm satisfied with the Samsung T240. I was using a CRT 19 before and this is quite an upgrade. Not the best monitor out there, but I got it for a heck of a deal!
When I built my first computer (the one I have now) I went with the LG W2252TQ. My niece has been using an LG monitor for a long time and she highly recommended I try one, so I thought I would take the hint. I picked this monitor up from my local Best Buy where the kind computer tech hooked it up to a PC for me so I could see what Windows looked like on it. I was sold immediately. This has turned out to be the best monitor I have ever owned.
Very glad to see a LCD review. I'm dreading the day my current tube dies, as most LCDs still can't match them(decent tubes that is). Unless you get in to the 1000 dollar range. Just wish the resolution was better. 1680 x 1050 is losing some space to the traditional 1600x1200. Though 1920 x 1080 is a bit better.
Hopefully more reviews and more consumer research will prompt companies to start making good quality LCDs and cheaper prices. Dell is kind of annoying, they used to sell some of their dispalys with PVA, and then changed them to TN, without changing the model #/Name. Grr.
Oops, in regards to my last post. The Dell monitors weren't changed from PVA to TN, they were changed from S-IPS to TN.
I'm just not on my game anymore. My two previous posts are wrong. Dell didn't switch from S-IPS to TN. They switched from S-IPS to PVA. Not so horrible. I got to work today and sat down at my computer, which is a 4 head box with 4 Dell 2007FP displays. 2 are S-IPS, and 2 are PVA. I can now see a bit of a difference, but its not so bad. S-IPS still looks a little nicer. But I never noticed until I started digging into it and figure out they were different techs.
Too bad, I've just started using ViewSonic VX2262wm a few days ago...
As the review said, even for the untrained eyes, the colors are noticeable bad and unable to get it right through OSD, which is disappointing.
Viewing angle is bad. So bad that if you look at it at the distance closer that 30 cm, you're starting to see dark shadows on the top and the bottom of the screen. You should have keep it at 50 cm distance to see uniform color.
The responsiveness are OK, but just don't compare it to CRT.
The internal speakers are jokes. Maximum volume is relatively small compared to standard active speaker. If you turn up a little bit bass, the sound is cracking. At 100% volume setting, you can hear a little annoying static high frequency hiss/noise, even if you don't plug in the audio cable. To set it to almost unnoticeable, I can only set the volume level at around 60%. Included are the EAX virtual sound card that using up computer resources, so that there is silent moment every half a second.
In short, don't buy it because of the speaker. ViewSonic should have put the money to improve the quality of the monitor instead of installing a pair of cheap speakers.
To the credit of ViewSonic, the first unit that I ordered contained one dead subpixel. They replaced a new one for me.
I've managed to improve the above-mentioned monitor's display accuracy by using the webpages...
http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/