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We've
often been harsh on the 22" budget segment – particularly
when there are monitors that don't deliver. Heave a sigh of
relief then, because AOC's 210V is quite marvellous indeed,
and we can be nice once more.
It
employs Chimei's CMO M220Z1 L01 panel, so if you were allured
by Chimei's price and screen quality but wanted a better chassis
build quality, then the 210V will certainly pique your interest.
The
stand is solid, and the screen small enough that all that's
delivered in terms of adjustment is tilt – you can easily
rotate by shifting the whole monitor. The not-so-great vertical
viewing angle makes us wish we had height adjustment though,
in order to minimise the effect of the darkening/lightening
screen as your head moves.
The
2000:1 contrast ratio is 'dynamic' - which supposedly makes
dark colours darker, and light lighter (much like Cold Power),
but as with most dynamic colour systems, it tends to screw
things up (much like Cold Power), and so we simply switched
everything off – resulting in a 700:1 contrast ratio
– and manually calibrated.
DisplayMate
tests were passable, the monitor able to display the shades
from 1 to 253 in the 255 greyscale tests, and colour gradients
were excellent except for the green, which started to band
noticeably towards the dark end of the scale. Movie watching
and game playing was fine – we'd even go so far as to
call this the perfect monitor for the gamer on a budget.
The
OSD is annoyingly laggy and as a consequence is a pain to
navigate, but it is heavily featured and should allow anyone
but the craziest video nut to get a picture they're happy
with. Fortunately most people will be able to set the features
they want once and never touch it again.
Overall
these are only small nigqles, and for the price the AOC delivers
in spades, and possibly buckets. If you don't want to spend
nearly double the price for one of the amazing Dell, BenQ
or Samsung 24" monitors, then this is your best bet.
Recommended.
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