Iiyama Prolite B1906S

Product Survey: 19'' LCD Monitors

The Prolite B1906S from Iiyama is a 5 ms TN monitor with a resolution of 1280 x 1024 pixels. If you hadn't worked it out already, that means it has a 4:3 aspect ratio. Screens like this are now more common in offices than with consumers. However, if your main is typing and editing documents, then this form factor is well-adapted. Iiyama is trying very hard with this 19'' monitor. It's on a rotating stand, is height-adjustable and pivots round to portrait mode. There's a DVI input as well as VGA, and the manufacturer has even though to include a pair of speakers. There's no HDMI, though, but is it really needed on a 19'' monitor? That leaves the Prolite B1906S with three starts in this section, where plenty of 22'' monitors don't get more than two. With the default factory settings, we noticed a slight blue tinge, which we measured as a colour temperature of 7300 K. If your eyes aren't used to this sort of thing, you probably won't notice it. If, on the other hand, you like to do a lot of photo or video editing or just prefer to have accurate colours, you'll need to calibrate the monitor as you can't get things right using just the menu. The contrast is pretty good with a ratio reaching 900:1--we didn't expect it to be as good.