Monday, November 1, 2010

LG E2260V-PN

We recently tested many monitors with LED of 22 and 23 inches of diagonal, whose price is largely lower than 300 euros, being located in the midrange, even of line entry for certain models. With 229 euros, model E2260V-PN of LG must offer a good quality of manufacture and good performances visual. We thus checked if this screen is defended correctly vis-a-vis competition of the screens with LED at low prices.





LG E2260V-PN does not have anything extraordinary in terms completion, without being catastrophic for as much. Its quality of manufacture is correct, in spite of the use of very common plastic materials, without much value. One will retain especially the smoothness of his flagstone LCD, a logical detail for a technology of rétroélairage by LED. Blow, this monitor surprises especially by its great lightness: only 2,3 kg, foot included/understood. Impressing!

Minimal equipment, but a port HDMI

The screen is delivered only with one standard cable VGA. The manufacturer did not take the trouble to join to it a cable DVI, even less one HDMI, it is damage! One thus sees which detail was sacrificed to compress the prices, knowing that the screen integrates a port HDMI all the same, which is not systematic in this range of price.

The interface of configuration of the screen could have been organized better. She proposes nevertheless a sufficient number of options of adjustment with, in premium, the possibility of choosing between three types of gammas available. The foot does not offer obviously a height adjustment, even less portrait mode. It just makes it possible to incline the screen of before behind. They is thus screens of midrange, without claims on the side of the equipment.

One regrets especially the position of the orders of adjustment, under the flagstone, difficult to use, especially that the buttons are not very obvious to press. It will thus be necessary to hold very light flagstone LCD of a hand to control the interface of adjustment of the screen. An ergonomics obviously little worked.



Too average visual performances

The flagstone of LG E2260V-PN is not the queen of the sector in terms of returned image. Its response time is puffing (almost 20 ms, according to our measurements), with not very major and not very homogeneous blacks. Blow, even with a relatively correct luminosity by defect (217 cd/m ²), the rate of contrast is with the drag compared to other screens with similar LED.

One stagnates with 811:1, with hardly light better after calibration with the probe (827: 1) with a luminosity however decreased with 125 cd/m ². The 22 inches with rétroéclairage by LED Packard Bell Maestro 220 LED and HP x23LED exceed already the 1 000:1 by defect, which is much better. No the miracle on the side of the angles of vision, which are in the small average of the flagstones with technology TN, far from powerful on this point.


We especially retained the poor quality of returned gray, whose proportioning of primary educations RVB is unbalanced and unstable with the adjustments by defect. We however largely improved this result with the colorimetric probe, showing that this screen posts a returned good when it is correctly regulated. It is still damage!


This monitor is satisfied with results to the height of its row, the midrange. It is very average, too average even, compared to Maestro 220 LED from Packard Bell (160 euros) which appeared much more reactive and powerful in terms of quality of image, while consuming a little less. The E2260V-PN of LG is not a bad screen, but it is difficult to advise…