"Gail Shaw" wrote:
> I've heard good things about the BenQ 20" and about the LG monitors.

I had a bad experience with an LG monitor, though it wasn't widescreen. I 
can no longer remember its name, but the problems were these two details:

1) The monitor used that technology (I've forgotten the name) where the 
brightness and colors are different depending on which angle you look at the 
monitor from. Most laptop monitors are like this too, but it was very 
uncomfortable for a stationary monitor, especially when working with 
graphics.

2) The monitor was not true 24-bit. Again, I have forgotten what it actually 
was, but it had fewer than 256 colors per channel, which were then 
interpolated. You couldn't see it most of the time, but when working with 
subtle gradient, like a blue sky, it was visible and annoying.

If you find an LG monitor that uses the angle-independent technology and is 
true 24 bit, then these observations don't apply of course.

Rune

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