14 DAY TRIAL // Chimei announced the 22-inch wide LCD monitor that displays full, double pages of documents quite a while ago. The design of the wide LCD monitor is completely compatible with Microsoft?s next major version of the Windows operating system and will become the market standard, according to the producer.
The CMV 221D was tested by Atompicmpc, who shows first that Chimei is the aggregate of a few budget brands you may have heard of before ? CMV and Polyview. In the past, they have made cheap TFTs with questionable build quality, but usually okay performance.
This monitor is worryingly cheap build quality with a disturbingly poor base, but a quality panel that is hard to ignore at its given price point. The impact is such that word has it Dell has inked a deal with Chimei to incorporate the panel into its own product line up, according to the site. The panel is TN, meaning six-bit and sadly not HDCP compatible. Menu buttons are placed annoyingly on the side, and the menu very difficult to navigate as a result. Inputs are limited to VGA and DVI which is fine for a monitor of this size, but on the same line we expected at least a height adjust ? tilt is all you get, and a small degree at that.
The 5ms response time showed noticeable but minimal ghosting throughout the motion tests. In the DisplayMate tests, the CMV 221D showed a tendency to become dark too quickly in the color and greyscale ramps, losing definition. Yet - despite this - it still managed to differentiate all the way down to the second shade of grey on the 256 shade greyscale gradient. The whites weren?t so impressive, things blowing out at the 247 mark, and showing a slight green discoloration on the greyscale.
But in the end, you will not find anything else of this image quality for this price and the guys said that?s entirely the reasoning for the score given: a 7 out of 10. If you want to get into large widescreen performance for entry level dollars, there is no better, or indeed no other choice, said the same source.
As for the users, here is a sample of their reaction to it: ?There is very very minimal bleeding.. like c'mon, it's gonna be pretty hard to perfect a 22" LCD $550 monitor... at a pure black picture, you can slightly see bleeding around the TOP edge of the monitor... but i never actually noticed it till someone actually mentioned the 'bleeding'; gaming wise; 5ms you can seriously tell compared to an 8ms monitor; i was previously running the Polyview 19" 8ms wides as my monitors, and they were a sweet set, now to tell a gaming beneficial in the 22's over the 19's is impressive.?
The specs: Pixel Pitch: 0.282 mm; Resolution: 1680 x 1050 WSXGA+; Display Color: 16.2 M (6 bits Hi-FRC); Brightness: 330 cd/m2; Contrast Ratio: 800:1; Viewing Angle (Horizontal): 170?; Viewing Angle (Vertical): 160?; Scan Rate (Horizontal): 30 kHz ~ 82 kHz; Scan Rate (Vertical): 56 Hz ~ 76 Hz; Display Area: 474 mm x 296 mm; Response time: 5 ms.
You can buy one for a minimal sum of $375, although you can find it for as much as $699, which is almost double. But usually the price is around $550.
