Aliens Called "LCDs"

**Lemur** · 01-27-2009, 16:41

This is the monitor I got. About 22", 1920x1080 so you can watch 1080p content in full resolution, HDMI connection as well as DVI and VGA, saturated colors, fast response time, no dead pixels, and it's from Asus, one of the more respectable manufacturers.

It's selling for $180 right now. What's not to like?

**Husar** · 01-27-2009, 16:53

Originally Posted by Lemur

This is the monitor I got. About 22", 1920x1080 so you can watch 1080p content in full resolution, HDMI connection as well as DVI and VGA, saturated colors, fast response time, no dead pixels, and it's from Asus, one of the more respectable manufacturers.

It's selling for $180 right now. What's not to like?

The TN panel.

But not bad, though some would say the 16:9 aspect ratio is a bit small vertically compared to a 16:10 monitor when you're actually working with the thing. Might bother LEN, might not, also a 24" is a bit bigger which is pretty great.

The input options aren't bad either on your monitor so I guess that one is really fine.

**LeftEyeNine** · 01-27-2009, 22:44

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I guess I have to remind you that I'm living in +!%&#?! Turkey.

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**Lemur** · 01-27-2009, 22:55

Well, was that directed at Husar, Tellos, Me or all three? How does that impact you, in terms of what you can buy and how much it costs? I thought almost all of the manufacturers were in China or Taiwan, not the U.S.A., so wouldn't it be kinda immaterial where you are?

I want to understand and help, but I'm kinda lost.

**LeftEyeNine** · 01-28-2009, 01:09

Originally Posted by Lemur

Well, was that directed at Husar, Tellos, Me or all three? How does that impact you, in terms of what you can buy and how much it costs? I thought almost all of the manufacturers were in China or Taiwan, not the U.S.A., so wouldn't it be kinda immaterial where you are?

I want to understand and help, but I'm kinda lost.

Mighty Lemur, what I meant to say is: Your 180-USD LCD would prolly cost around 300 USD provided it is sold in Turkey. Had I had the idea that I could see a price tag of 200 USD for that monitor in Turkey, I'd really refrain from opening this thread.

e.g. The same notebook that is sold for 1500 USD on Newegg costs 1500 EUR + KDV (Turkish VAT) here.

Clearer I guess

Husar, how much did that 24'' cost you ?

**Lemur** · 01-28-2009, 05:02

Originally Posted by LeftEyeNine

Mighty Lemur, what I meant to say is: Your 180-USD LCD would prolly cost around 300 USD provided it is sold in Turkey. Had I had the idea that I could see a price tag of 200 USD for that monitor in Turkey, I'd really refrain from opening this thread.

Okay, so what's to stop you from having a friend in the U.S.A. ordering it, then shipping it to Turkey? Surely that would add no more than $20-$40 bucks onto the price, right? So a $180 monitor with $10 shipping in the U.S. becomes a $200-$220 monitor by the time it reaches you.

I don't believe that breaks any relevant laws, although it might void some warranties. Am I being terribly simplistic?

**Husar** · 01-28-2009, 09:46

Originally Posted by Lemur

Okay, so what's to stop you from having a friend in the U.S.A. ordering it, then shipping it to Turkey? Surely that would add no more than $20-$40 bucks onto the price, right? So a $180 monitor with $10 shipping in the U.S. becomes a $200-$220 monitor by the time it reaches you.

I don't believe that breaks any relevant laws, although it might void some warranties. Am I being terribly simplistic?

He'd also have to check for things like power adapters, you know, lately I bought an american bluetooth headset from the UK, was packaged with an american power adapter (two parallel connector bars with a hole in each), the store tried to think ahead and put in a UK AC adapter (two bar-like connectors with some plastic thing above) but here we have the european connectors (just two round connectors with a bit more distance than the american bars). So I got myself ana adapter for the american thing for 5EUR, luckily it goes up to 240 Volts or I couldn't have used it at all.

What I'm trying to say is you have to think of things that aren't standardized across the world, DVI, HDMI etc probably are, I once saw a list of countries where a certain WiFi adapter would work, which surprised me, I thought WiFi was the same everywhere, actually I still do but the list confused me anyway. I also read a german iPhone 3G in america gets really weird bugs so I'd make somewhat sure that a monitor ordered from the USA would actually work in Turkey before spending a whole lot on the shipping etc. because those costs stay even if you can send it back.

Now that was more than I wanted to say on the topic (

) but PAL and NTSC are TV only things, right?
Then only the power problem remains, potentially.

Oh and I paid 334EUR including shipping but the thing has become cheaper, it's below 300 now, let me have a look...

Seems like it is superseded by some variant and hardly available anymore(it was pretty new in their program when I bought it in mid 2008)....265 in one store, there is a new WD and a WT version which show 4 times the contrast and looks similar otherwise, the WD is just 2 EUR more in the cheapest shop.
Then again you just said 300$ is too much and that's what I'm talking about here so guess we forget about that for now.

**Husar** · 01-27-2009, 22:55

Originally Posted by LeftEyeNine

[monetarily_concerned_post]

I guess I have to remind you that I'm living in +!%&#?! Turkey.

[/monetarily_concerned_post]

In that case I will have to remind you that anything cheaper will be some cheapish 17" or 19" monitor, the price of the one Lemur presented surprised me a bit already.
If you cannot afford a cheap 22" I'd wait and save some money, because going even lower isn't worth it anymore IMO.