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ASUS PW201 TFT-LCD Monitor
By: Jayesh Mansukhani   |   Dec 01, 2006
  • 4
Great image quality
Great color output
Number of connectivity options
Very expensive
Poor webcam software
Multimedia speakers are unusable

The performance of the PW201 in our Displaymate tests was nothing short of stunning. The sharpness of the monitor is near perfect, with text being incredibly clear and crisp. The contrast levels were great too and its incredible sharpness made working on this LCD a very good experience. The monitor’s gray scale performance was above average and posed no surprises. The color tests was another area this LCD performed well. The colors were rich and vibrant without any bleeding. We checked this via a series of high-resolution photographs and Displaymate. The image display on both tests was easily among the best we have ever seen. Our last test was the most practical one. We tested the monitor through a variety of games and movies. Here its 8ms timing assured there was no ghosting at all. Though there are faster response monitors out there, we were surprised at the utter lack of ghosting and found this to be overall a great result. Games like Flatout 2, which support native widescreen resolution simply looked sensational.

The webcam was the only thing that let down this monitor… badly. The Lifeframe software is clunky and at times would just crash while a simple action such as dragging the video window is performed. When it did work, we could never use it beyond 320x240 resolution as anything above that resolution would lead to the display lagging or the software crashing. Though the software does offer some interesting options such as portraits and motion sensing, it needs major work before it can be termed as actually usable. The built-in speakers were another let down. The sound at best can be described as hollow 'tinny noise' with no bass. The speakers are so bad, you would be better off getting a pair of headphones.


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I need a driver for the webcam of the monitor for linux, please help
PROXIMO @ Jan 06, 2008
The product is good but i can't understand which market it caters to? The speakers i'm guessing are intended only for functional purpose and not for listening to music or games. On the other hand, the screen seems to be very good for gaming and videos.

they should have worked on the webcam problem. Buggy software and poor add-ons like bad speakers and webcam will put people off and distract attention from the main goal i.E. Good display. And for their pricing, i don't know how they would compete with the dell widescreens.

if dell did not retail only through their crappy online ordering service, it would have dominated the indian market. Dell needs to reailze that not everyone is comfortable ordering online with that kind of cash and needs to reach out to distributors also
Smith @ Dec 04, 2006
38k is atrocious pricing. You can get a great view sonic 20" lcd doing 1680 x 1050 at 5ms for 18k. And who needs these crapy speakers and webcam anyway. Purely flaunt value stuff.
Soham Dutta, Jorhat, Assam @ Dec 01, 2006
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