Filled with a good feature-set such as an S-Video input and high brightness and contrast, the Daewoo L17Cs looked great on paper. In ‘person’ it looked quite snappy, with a silver and black finish, high neck and all the OSD buttons and controls arrayed up the right-hand side.
Unfortunately when we tested it, the Daewoo L17CS was not so attractive. While it was passable when we tested a DVD and movies, plus read text with it, that was about all.
Its brightness, contrast, and colour scores were poor, including low colour scales, colour tracking, colour combinations and white-level saturation. In the real-world this meant that the PC image quality was less than optimal, with poor gaming response and lacking in desktop clarity.
It also meant that you have to spend at least a few good minutes fiddling with the OSD controls to enhance the image when you swapped from video to PC and back again. Not a convenient setup.
The L17CS wasn’t the worst monitor on test by a margin, nonetheless it was unfortunately outclassed by many of the other displays in this competitive roundup.