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TrustedReviews Awards 2008

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Published	25th Nov 2008

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1st Place: NEC MultiSync LCD3090WQXi

At £1,500, this monitor is strictly for the professionals out there: but what a monitor! Based on a premium S-IPS panel its headline feature is, without doubt, its 97.8 per cent AdobeRGB colour gamut. This, you should know, is a damn sight more demanding than the NTSC colour space that manufacturers often use in their specs.

As a result the NEC delivers unparalleled colour fidelity and you can even match the calibration settings of one screen to another, by linking them up via USB - ideal for anyone rolling out multiple monitors in a department. Things are rounded off by a superbly intuitive OSD, all the adjustability you can think off short of levitation and build quality that's difficult to match.

Read the full review of the NEC MultiSync LCD3090WQXi.

2nd Place: ViewSonic VX2260wm

Truth be told the PC display market has been pretty stagnant of late, but one development that's given us cheer is the slow move towards 16:9 ratio screens and particularly Full HD capable 22in displays. First among those was the Iiyama ProLite E2208HDS, but it has since been usurped by Viewsonic's effort, the VX2260wm.

Not only is it a very attractive unit, but it adds important features like triple inputs (VGA, DVI & HDMI) as well as audio pass through. This makes it ideal for anyone in need of a compact monitor for gaming, while the 1,920 x 1,080 resolution also means plenty of desktop space. Even better, all of this comes at a price of below £170; making it great value, too.

Read the full review of the ViewSonic VX2260wm.

3rd Place: LG Flatron L206WU

DisplayLink was one of the great technological developments of last year and this year LG delivered one of the better implementations with this 20in widescreen effort.

Sporting a very funky gloss black and matte white appearance, it joined DisplayLink support with all the usual monitor features and a highly adjustable stand featuring prodigious height adjustment, pivot and swivel.

Image quality was also very good for a TN based display and at just over £200 it won't break the bank either, making this a great option for anyone using a notebook with no digital video output.

Read the full review of the LG Flatron L206WU.

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Sivart said on 1st December 2008

Just read the awards article & then looked forward to the comments.

Big disapointment to find it dominated by a fruitcake with a grudge and an old pals reunion d... more

Ardjuna said on 5th December 2008

@Sivart: yes, it would have been nice to see some more comments about the actual products, and about awards other than the arguably least important 'style' one. Still, it... more

AlexMck said on 11th December 2008

Great job Riyad. Have been following the site for a long time but only just decided to register.
Rsaeire and Singularity -- have ye any lives to lead? I should think that,... more

PaulW said on 11th January 2009

@Sivart .. I agree with you to a degree. I dont have the funds to be fortunate to be able to buy a B&W Zeppelin, and therefore look forward to reviews of such products here @ TR. No matter what Riyad (other TR staff say)says, there will also be some contention. I bought a Samsung G600 phone for Xmas .. mainly because of the brilliant review here. As it happens, i dont like it & have gone back to my Nokia 6300. I also have a Nokia E71 (which another user was raving about) & I aint too keen on that either.

So what am I trying to say? Well this .. I find the TR site just about the most "accurate" place to go to read products reviews, and generally I find the conclusions produced "weigh in" with my own needs. I bought a Canon Pixma MP610 on the strength of its review & its brilliant! I also bought a Fuji S9600 camera purely on the review here & what a blinder! Brilliant choice & a brilliant review - altho very controversial at the time! 10 / 10 for a camera that I bought for £199!!

The arguments put forward about B&W Zeppelin as an iPod docking station do produce a smile on my face. I can many years ago, someone in Hi-Fi News stating "the wider you open the windows, the more the muck flies in", and having an iPod myself, I cannot but agree with this statement .. as the audio quality of the Apple iPod is well documented to be "questionable". Poor audio in - poor audio out!

BUT .. at least TR do actually carry out reviews of products tested. Some years back (in an earlier life) I was involved heavily in the PC MIDI market & ran a well know UK PC MIDI company distributing such products as Music Quest MIDI cards, CardD DAW card & Cadenza sequencing software (Gordon .. are you reading this? You & I have had several chats in the past about some of these products.)

On one occasion I was approached by a well known MIDI Music mag (no names mentioned, but their offices were in Bath!) asking for a sample Music Quest card for "head to head" review. I had always had my suspicions about the "authenticity" of reviews carried out by this Mag, & so I sent off a card that I knew to be faulty! It simply didnt work!

We came 2nd in a head to head shoot out with other popular MIDI card! We werent asked to replace the faulty card, yet we came in 2nd place! Amazing eh?

Thanks goodness we have moved on & we have sites like TR.

Well done guys .. whilst I dont agree with all that you say, I am darned glad that you have presence on the web! Sorry for going off topic a tad!

Happy New Year!

@Sivart .. I agree with you to a degree. I dont have the funds to be fortunate to be able to buy a B&W Zeppelin, and therefore look forward to reviews of such products here @ T... more

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