TN or IPS for gaming/movies

[Agaev]

I have searched about it many time on whole world wide web but still i have not got a particular suggestion as what is the best for gaming, Monitor with TN or an IPS. Actually these both could be good but i just want to know that what would be better for gaming? I have found that an IPS would be better for gaming as compare to the TN but still waiting for your comments.

[Maxforu]

On LCD TVs like LCD monitors different panel types are used. The most common, fastest and cheapest are TN panels. In the upper class for the graphics area and for high-quality LCD TV S-PVA and S-IPS panels are installed. An important aspect of quality panels is their reaction time. As a reaction or response time period is called the one in which a pixel can be switched from white to black. Where: the shorter the better.

[RoninBlade]

The response from black to white and vice versa were measured and expressed as switching 0 / 100. Better days Panels achieve when they have gray only 10 percent to 90 percent change (indicated in 10/90). Depending on the panel type, the Grey-to-gray-measurement can also be slower than that from black to white to be black. This will affect that VA panels, it is said from the camp of the proponents of I-PLC panels.

[deoWo]

TN panels (also referred to as TN + film) are the cheapest, fastest, and therefore also the most popular LCD panels. Benq and Viewsonic have just announced the first new monitors on TN-base, only to have a response time of one millisecond. In late 2004 they were loud also claims to be the first provider of 8-ms displays. Then they brim over with new records, had to follow other manufacturers.

[Hardwareman]

TN stands for "Twisted Nematic", translated literally, twisted nematic. Nematic is a state or a phase in which the rod-shaped molecules of a liquid crystal or LCD screen, all arranged in one direction. Here, the liquid crystal between crossed polarizers placed and controlled by its double refraction of electric fields. If unpolarized light through the polarizing filter, it will pass in only one polarization direction. Critical to the intensity of light or the orientation of the polarization axes of friction direction is another. If no voltage, rotate the liquid crystals horizontally.

[Rawko]

The principle of IPS-panel works like this: If one voltage to the electrodes, the LC molecules aligned horizontally and parallel to the polarization layer and thus allow no light through. That is, the pixel is black. If one applies no voltage, the LC molecules are rotated by up to 90 degrees, so the light can pass freely, more or less the polarize. Since the electrodes are built up but like two combs, a fairly strong light source is required, which explains the relatively high power consumption especially of older IPS panels.

[T.J.]

Benq and Viewsonic that come up almost simultaneously, with each new speed records, has a reason. Both draw their panels mainly from the Benq subsidiary AU Optronics, LG Philips and Samsung, according to the third largest manufacturer of LCD panels from a screen size of ten inches.