Which Flat Panel LCD Monitor?

[Big Daddy]

My Sony monitor died today, bad inverter, $170.00 plus shipping to repair. It was a good monitor at the time: 400cd/m2, 1280x1024 Res, 17 inch TFT. Now the question is do I repair or replace it? I would like to upgrade to a 22inch and am hearing good things about the Samsung 226BW widescreen model, 2ms response, 3000:1 contrast ratio, 300cd/m2, 1680X1059 res. I do not game much, but do use it for web surfing, photo editing and video. Anyone with any experience with Samsung? I looked at an LG today and was not pleased with the picture quality. What do you think?

 

[frolf]

replace it. there are really only a couple of companies that make the actual lcd panel. samsung and lg are great companies.

 

[Tom]

ViewSonic gets my vote.

Sometimes you can find good deals on Dell from eBay. People would buy these monitor/computer bundles at crazy discounts and then sell them seperately on eBay.

 

[Kirby]

I have been buying Samsung LCD screens (17" & 19") for my company and our customers for several years. I'm guessing that it's close to 100 monitors now. I have seen no failures at all.

 

[MrElussive]

I have a Dell 24" (2405FPW) flat-panel widescreen LCD monitor at my computer at home and it works very well. At the office, I have a ViewSonic 20" widescreen LCD and I find that to have an extremely sharp picture. My vote went to Dell....my next monitor for my home PC (which I use primarily for gaming) will be a Dell once again.