Apple Cinema display for video/animation work

[Michael Sutton]

I bought (2) Dell 2005FPW’s recently (20-inch widescreen). I’ve been pleased.

Their response, however, should be the same. The 2005’s and the Apple 20″ both come from the same factory, but are just packaged a little differently.

Personally, I prefer the 2005 because of the variety of inputs (DVI, analog, S-Video, and coax) and the (slightly) cheaper price. It has 4 USB 2.0 ports on it vs. the Apple’s 2. It does not, however, have any firewire ports, while the Apple has 2 firewire 400’s.

Just my two cents.

[Filip Vandueren]

IMHO, response time is a bit overrated.

16 ms just means that if you have a perfectly bright 100% white pixel and you switch it off, it takes 16ms to fade to black.
That corresponds to less than half a frame @ 30FPS.

This is negligible when compared to how long your Eyes and brain would take to “fade out” that white pixel if it had indeed gone to black instantaneously, it’s calle dPErsistence of vision, and as you might know, it is the effect that cinema & animation were based upon.

Of course if you’re playing Unreal Tournament @ 75 FPS, one could argue that it takes longer to fade out a pixel than to update the screen. But still.

[Mooviemaker]

Thanks for the reply Michael. I’ll keep these points in mind.

Cheers
Steve

[Mooviemaker]

Good point regarding persistence of vision, as far as the relationship of the Specs. to what our eyes would perceive.
Thanks for your input.

Cheers
Steve