Question about FW screen (900p vs 1080p)

I'm gettin a Vaio FW as a replacement to my FZ. The only question I have now is wheter I should get the Xbrite-ECO 1600x900 or the FullHD 1920x1080 screen.

Will the 1920 be too small to actually use? Also my FZ is Xbrite-Hi Color, the sharpness and contrast and colors are VERY important to me that's why I never got an ECO display. Is this 1600x900 "ECO" like all "ECOs"?? (narrower viewing angles, less vibrant colors than Hi Color and so on..)

Or are they the same screen with different resolutions only?

Thanks!! Also, wich one would you get if you had the chance of gettin' both? Thanks!

 

i opted for the 900 because 1080p was too small for me, and it was hard finding drivers that lowered the resolution to smaller sizes. without the finding drivers it doesn't let you downgrade it to medium resolutions... you can see this blogger's take on it here.

a good idea to test it more easily is to drop by best buy or sonystyle store or whatever nearby place that stocks both a 1080p FW and a 1600x900 FW, if you can. that's how i formed my own preference, and that's probably the best way to figure out your own.

 

Also, search this forum for posting bys me and by moderator Phil where we've collected several specs on the Eco, the FullHD and the HiColor. From what I can tell, FullHD is between Eco and HiColor but there is some indication that the Eco on the FW4 series may be better than the Eco on previous incarnations of the FW.

 

When I saw the ECO screen on a FW4xx a few days ago at a Sonystyle store, I thought it looked better than the ECO screen which I saw a couple of months ago. The ECO screen I saw a couple of months ago looked washed out and this one looked more vibrant.

This reminds me of when Apple began using better quality panels on the Macbooks in April. Maybe Sony listened to complaints about the ECO screens, including reviews which mentioned it just like Apple did.

 

A tech friend of mine told me that a couple of years back, when he was repairing MacBooks, he was surprised to see that, when you opened them up, the parts were labeled: S-O-N-Y.

So, it doesn't surprise me that the screens in both Mac and Sony laptops are improving around the same time....

 

I have FW290 CTO which has Full HD 1080p LCD.
I had FZ180 before.
The ECO is ECO , it can realized by the price.
As you know ,There is a deep difference between Hi-color(Full-HD) and ECOs, unfortunately!
I get used to this resolution, and now i think its better.
in IE all thing are in own place, you can see everything at a glance , instead of working with scrolls, working with more windows and watching pics and vids in actual size.
Also you can enjoy the Hi-Color Tech!!! its more improtant.

 

Not all Ecos are alike, not all FullHDs are alike, HiColor no longer exists on the FW series. Reviews indicate that the last true HiColor 1600x900 screen (of the FW190 series) was dramatically brighter than the successor FullHDs of FW2 through 4. Again, check out some of the posts I indicated for you or go to notebookcheck.net yourself and look up a sample of each of the FW models, check the screen stats (which Phil and I already did but, heck, if you can't use a search engine on this forum...).

Go look at the screens in retail and then you can decide. In general, you will find that there was a dramatic degradation in brightness (but equivalent or better contrast) in the FW2 and 3 series FullHD and there are people posting that the FW4 Eco is much better than it was in the FW3.

Remember: Sony and Sharp have recently cut a deal to jointly own a screen-producing facility and all sorts of things are changing as we type. So, you're shooting at a moving target.

Choose your resolution and go from there -- that's my advice. If you're a gamer and you're going to be down-grading resolution on a FullHD, that makes no sense. If you want to use it for text and you're going to be down-grading the resolution, that makes no sense, either. If you can see it before you buy and/or return it after you buy, you'll be able to adjust for your reaction.

 

does anyone know if the eco screen will play games better on 1600x900 vs the full-hd at 1600x900 because that is the eco screens native resolution?