TN Panel Viewing Angles & Colour Distortion Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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so we were in the middle of trying to film something where we showed off the
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uh benchmarks that we ran for Far Cry 3 where we had a gForce versus Radon
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Showdown hold on no you're going the wrong way when we were using this
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monitor to showcase the graphs and I was like slick uh you got to you got to use
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like a a more um a more obvious like a darker blue on the graphs because you
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can't really see it on the monitor so here this is the angle that I was
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looking at it from I was like yeah these aren't going to show how are we going to show people what the graphs look like
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and then I got down to I level with it
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and I was like oh okay that is a
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perfectly acceptable blue so the issue appears to be the TN panel having such
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horrendous uh viewing angles that it was
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pretty much unusable so just for lws we took an IPS panel this is a pro art
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monitor so for contrast this is a 120 HZ
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TN which is about the worst case scenario for a TN in terms of color
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accuracy and viewing angles because of the way that they have to overclock the
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panels in order to get them to respond so quickly and then this is a color
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calibrated 60 HZ IPS which is pretty
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much the other end of the spectrum so would love to get some different angles
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on here so slick come on over here and get them from sort of the side so you
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can see that what is supposed to be down
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down down what is supposed to be blue
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actually appears to be brown and
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um and uh yeah I mean the difference is
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so is so Stark even going from sort of
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like a viewing spot of about here to about here that that there's a
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noticeable noticeable difference if you're not looking exactly straight on
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with the uh with the TN panel so you know guys if you don't believe what I
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say about how TN panels are for color
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reproduction as well as viewing angle just so inferior to their to their PLS
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uh IPS and VA counterparts hopefully
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this is a bit of an illustration for you of what would be a worst case scenario
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so what is a TN panel like this good for
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couple things number one is 3D you cannot run 3D unless you can get 120 HZ
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uh refresh rates and unless you have a fast enough response time to prevent any
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motion blur or not motion blur well motion blur as well cuz that can wreak
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havoc on 3D gaming um as well as cross
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talk between the left and right stereo images so you have to have a super fast
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panel the other thing that a fast panel is good for is 2D well okay 3D gaming
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but not stereo 3D gaming where you need
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that you need that responsiveness from the monitor you want to have that extra
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Edge compared to someone else who's using a 60 HZ monitor because it will
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actually show you the image faster so if you're playing twitch games where you
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need every last millisecond then this would be useful and if you're running in
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Stereo 3D then this would be useful otherwise do yourself a big huge favor
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and get an IPS vaa or PLS panel because
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I think you guys have seen what the contrast between these Technologies
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looks like again a very extreme sort of version of it thanks for watching lus
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