Acer P205H LCD Monitor

Performance
The night starts off with a DVI connection, and the accessing of the menu of the LCD. It pops up right near the buttons, thus fiddling around or calibrating is easy. There are presets for Text, Movie, Standard etc., with a special ‘e’ icon (as in eColor by Acer) for special color settings. It’s still best to get hands on with the controls, though the dynamic contrast setting is not bad at all. In manual tweaking, we could calibrate a low enough black bar, but not too deep. I’m afraid blacks are weak here. Another issue was that the screen is of the gloss, reflective kind. This is slightly hampering for innate prima donnas or screen gazing EMO kinds.

The brightness was sufficient, thus we did get quite a vibrant image. On our 256 grayscale pattern, high whites came out well discerned, even on very high contrast levels. Thus the good part here is that there is neutrality and no clipping in the high parts of dynamic range. Simply speaking, whites stay white even on high contrasts.

Overall vibrancy is there in the image; this is due to slight saturation in the color, and more warm hues rather than neutral. The reds and yellows in skin tone were definitely enhanced, though it looks nice. The colors are about 10 % oversaturated in warm colors. Movies look pretty good - we saw Independence Day and 300 Blu-ray, then played good old Crysis on the Acer. Motion is again a super part, we really got very little blur and edge artifacts like jaggies, even though the 1080p stuff is getting scaled down. Fonts come across very nicely, on a good contrast setting (like 89), using a word processor is a simple and enjoyable charm.

Conclusion
A reasonably priced monitor this is, at Rs. 7,500. It’s not full HD but 20 inches is not so small a size for viewing movies and enjoying a nice game. The blacks are weak, and screen is glossy, but besides that the brightness, colors and motion are very nice. It’s recommended as a choice for anyone who is not yet ready to take the full HD plunge, but wants a decent screen.