5 out of 5 people found this review helpful.
Excellent monitor; incredible screen
Date of Review: Nov 28, 2008
The Bottom Line: Buy it--its easy to install and well worth the money. You won't be dissappointed.
This is the second LG W1952TQ I've installed. A month ago, my dad needed a monitor and I told him no monitor under a couple of hundred bucks could approach the specs on this (10,000:1 contrast ratio; 2 ms response). I saw it in a computer store and it looked so much better than a similar-priced model there was no comparison. The images looked so good (compared to his old one) that the monitor was actually a pleasure to look at. Well my monitor was dying after 9 years of faithful service so I looked around (this is the day after Thanksgiving) and I still couldn't find any that had the specs that this one had, so I bought one for myself as well.
It only takes 10 minutes or so to install, and that includes assembling the viewing stand, as well as inserting the VGA cable. Windows XP (both on my dad's computer, and mine, found the drivers instantly, without needing the CD--though the owner's manual is on the cd). By the way--it does have a port for DVI, but I didn't see a DVI cable, so you will have to provide one of your own if you have a DVI port on your computer; of course it had a power cable.
The screen looks awesome, and this is on a 5 year old Dell Dimension 2350 (with an integrated Intel graphics card--not exactly a gamer's dream). Its hard to say what exactly it is that makes the same photos look incredible on this monitor--all I can say is that you won't waste your money if you buy this.
Shop around--I got this at Circuit City for 170 plus tax (and a mandatory recycling fee). I know a few other places charge 20-30 bucks more for it.
For those who are wondering, unless you have a specific reason not to, the best resolution is all the way to the right--as high a resolution as the video card/monitor can accept, which for this monitor, is 1440x900.
One final word of caution--going to the LG site (when I couldn't find the CD--it was left in the dvd drive, the last place I looked), I could not find any drivers, after a search, after clicking all over. So don't lose the cd. CDs being what they are (or is that, we being who we are), the cds inevitably get lost. I copied the driver folder from the cd onto a section on our hard drive, so in case I ever lose the cd, I still have the drivers. You never can tell when you'll want to reinstall a driver.
