Most Economical LED-Backlit Display

The heat starts kicking in right about now in the event you are living in the northern hemisphere. It is the time when public interest in non-portable devices falls below the yearly average, but there is various us who sit in front of our monitors & think they could do with a better.

You are in luck, this is when you ought to be out there looking for a cheap LED backlit monitor, because prices normally go up as the festive season closes in on us at the finish of the year.

Mate of the Frugal Shopper

I cannot recommend you the lowest priced LED-backlit TFT monitor, & sleep well at night, so I'll show you the second cheapest I could find.

Skipping over Asus VH197D --which technically is the lowest priced, but had a less than favorable reception--, they arrive to the star of today's show: Asus VH198T. Notice how similar model numbers are & don't let them fool you in to purchasing the former; the latter comes with a couple of features you need to have in your display.

VH198T has a LED backlit panel. It is TN-Film based, as you might have correctly assumed from the cost point at which it retails at.

The thing I like about this particular model is the fact that Asus managed to fit it with both D-Sub 15 & DVI signal inputs. Now, that alone doesn't make a ding on a whoa-radar, but it is a desktop monitor that costs $110.

I still vividly keep in mind that I had to actively look for a display with a digital input. It wasn't long ago, either, only half a year ago DVI monitors were nowhere to be present in the bottom half of value sector.

Things You Ought to Know About

VH198T could be a pleasant find under $120, but it in no way is ideal. For example, it is not Full-HD. It would be unrealistic to expect 1080P in a 19" monitor for various reasons. To start with, pixels would be tiny to render manufacturing the model economically unjustifiable.

It means the thing would cost much for its size, therefore no-one would favor it to a 22" screen with the same pixel count.

Second, normal sized -- 12 or 14 PX font -- would be uninteresting & difficult to read. I am blessed to have 120% vision with both eyes, but even I'd think about anything 1080P & sub-22" a stretch.

This implies that 1080P videos will be down-scaled, leading to some or lots of quality loss, depending on how & what (monitor, video playing application) does the job.

Conclusion

Are you positive you need the lowest priced LED monitor you can have? Used units aside, you'd be stuck with VH197D.

In fact, I recommend you to spend $15 more on Asus VH198T & get DVI digital input, & picture quality customers who bought it actually like.