X-bit’s Guide: Contemporary LCD Monitor Parameters and Characteristics
While considering what LCD to buy, or at least try out, I kept running into tests describing how worthless the manufacturers’ data is. Then I found an excellent article about contemporary LCD monitors on X-bit labs.
From best to worse, current LCD technolgies rank as follows. S-IPS, PVA, MVA, TN. Unfortunately TN monitors are cheap and have a very fast “apparent” response time, so they have almost taken over the market for low-end LCD’s. S-IPS are great, but a bit slow. MVA and PVA suffer from bad response times between shades of gray, and TN just sucks in color reproduction and viewing angles. If you need to work with color beyond surfing the web, avoid TN.