Sharp LL-191A-B: 16ms Response Time for 19'' LCDs

Full Screen Application

Here are a few quick looks at some demanding full screen applications. All of these screenshots are taken with the Analog input on the LCDs.

The Matrix Reload, The Matrix - We use the Matrix series to test full motion video on our 191A. Since the Matrix isn't the best movie to test color reproduction, we typically only look for motion blur or other imperfections. For our purposes, the image quality looked very good, but slightly darker than on the Dell 2001FP. Increasing the brightness too much resulted in a washed out picture.

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Morrowind - Although the colors in Morrowind look right on, the image is fairly dark. Adjusting the brightness on this LCD too much results in a washed out image; likely attributed to the 6-bit panel.

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Max Payne 2 - We have said before that we get completely different results for each LCD we test with Max Payne, and the LL-191A is no exception. In fact, we found brilliant light and dark transition; perhaps even better than the Dell 2001FP. It is very apparent that the lower response time has edged out other monitors like the Samsung 213T.

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Halo - Similar to Max Payne, again, we saw great FPS performance. Unlike Max Payne, however, there are more colors to observe and after a few minutes of game play, we could tell there were differences between the LL-191A and other LCDs. The game feels a little too dark, particularly in hallway scenes where there is not much light. On the other hand, outdoor scenes look perfect, increasing or decreasing the brightness does not do the image any justice. Motion was very fluid and the lower response time can be felt immediately.

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Unreal Tournament 2004 - Halo and UT2K4 have very similar results. There are not as many dark corridors, so we did not experience any particular point in the game where the image was too dark, but attempting to increase brightness overall gave us a washed out image (similar to our analysis of The Matrix earlier).

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