Test 3 Display quality

Screen type and performance.

Color rendering precision is a critical concern for designers and video editors, but everyone wants their display to make at least a good stab at showing things accurately. When checking this out, the first thing to note is the kind of LCD panel used. VA LCDs as used in the bigger Philips display are cheaper, but they suffer from contrast and hue shifts when viewed from an angle. The Philips display is curved to counteract this, but you should still sit centrally for the best performance. The Acer, AOC and Dell use the higher–end and more expensive IPS form of LCD, while this Samsung monitor uses a PLS LCD – very similar to IPS but with some minor advantages.

Color performance on the monitors was measured with a Datacolor Spyder5Elite colorimeter. All of these displays did reasonably well considering the price range, but AOC and Philips pipped the rest of the competition at 78% and 80% of Adobe RGB, respectively.

“Color performance on the monitors was measured with a Datacolor Spyder5Elite colorimeter. ”