LCD companies go berserk over response time

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BenQ and ViewSonic released 2ms monitors. Will this madness stop?

IN A MOVE geared towards getting as much attention as possible, Benq recently announced its fastest LCD monitor. But we have yet to see whether its 2ms baby is the first 2ms monitor on the market or whether the previously introduced ViewSonic's Vx2022 beat BenQ to the finish line.


The 19-inch LCD monitor with 2ms latency is named a marketing-friendly FP93GX, and the targets for this monitor are obviously gamers.

It is interesting to see that gamers went from underdogs to being mentioned as "targets" in every press release for a product which is built on the bleeding edge of technology or a manufacturer needs to claim "first in something".

The resolution is typical 1280x1024, while product data speaks of declared brightness of 300 cd/m2 and 700:1 contrast ratio. The display is able to reproduce 16.2 million of colours, and you will be able to connect the monitor via analogue D-SUB or DVI-D connectors.

Company claims the usage of breakthrough AMA (Advanced Motion Accelerator) marchitecture will match the performance of CRT monitors. A very bold statement indeed, and this marchitecture could be the thing missing for LCDs to kill off CRTs for gamers. Of course, the resolution problems still exist, so user frustration with 5:4 format continues, too. What we dislike is the fact that grey-to-grey measurement is being used, and there isn't a set-in-stone standard over measurments. Also bear in mind that latencies change in use, while grey-to-grey response time lags miles from the world of colour changing pixels. And as we know, games aren't played in monochrone.

The INQuirer