Polyview CMV 1515 TFT

Generally, TFT monitors have been renowned to be disgustingly expensive flat items that display a nasty blur, most of which also have low colour depth and are ridiculously over priced. Serious blurring at an astonishingly steep 25ms response time, the majority of these displays don't allow any decent gaming. These God-forbidden things are simply not possible to game on, let alone practical.

You know, some dreams are so breathtakingly amazing you just don't want to wake up. When you do, you'll need to take a minute to recover. This baby was cause enough to sit me in the nearest seat with such force I now have a window in the floor.

Generally, TFT monitors have been renowned to be disgustingly expensive flat items that display a nasty blur, most of which also have low colour depth and are ridiculously over priced. Serious blurring at an astonishingly steep 25ms response time, the majority of these displays don't allow any decent gaming. These God-forbidden things are simply not possible to game on, let alone practical.

This is quite a conundrum, as they look so damn sweet and being the small size they are, they'll practically fit anywhere. Carting these around to LANs is also a lot easier than lugging around a 20kg+ bulky box.

Well this awesome screen is anything but the above, bringing a huge breath of fresh air to the TFT market. It's a beautiful 15" screen, which is of course, the display size of a standard 17" CRT monitor. With a response time of a tiny 15ms, even fast paced first person shooter games are fully playable on this -- we tested it's fraggability with both Quake 3: Arena and Unreal Tournament: 2003. There was a slight hint of blurring, but this is to be expected from any TFT screen and was hardly distracting.

Not only sporting a ratio of 500:1 in contrast, it also has an extremely good colour depth, with specific testing done in DisplayMate to confirm this. Its maximum and native resolution is 1,024 x 768, which is plenty of space for a 15" TFT.

Being so astonishingly cheap, at under $500 it's unbelievable  to actually get more than what you pay for. Major kudos to CMV for creating this absolute stunner of a piece of hardware for a fraction of its competitors cost. Simply brilliant.

Performing at a consistently high rate its more expensive rivals cringe at, this monitor totally rocks. If you're in the market for a great 15" TFT display, this one wins hands, feet, and broken chair fragments down.