PC Monitors

[Devil Wears Prado]

Looking to replace my CRT monitor that's about five or so years old. It's really old and the screen is just pissing me off now... the black on the sides keep coming into the screen and shrinking it. It only goes up to 1024 x 768 and when I try to make it larger it makes your eyes hurt. The screen keeps getting bigger and then smaller when you're using it randomly and that also hurts my eyes. I'm wonder what company sells the best monitors, what size monitors should I buy (heard I should look around 20 inchers)?And if you have any other tips or suggestions. Or if you love your monitor now, tell me about it.

There are some deals on this forum I go to. Many of them are Samsungs. I have a Samsung HDTV 40" in my room so I don't know if it will look pretty ghey if I have a monitor and a TV that look exactly alike. There is something like a 22" Dell monitor that's around $87 after mail-in rebate that I'm thinking of getting but not sure if Dell makes any good computer parts.

I don't do a lot of gaming. I just browse the internet and watch TV series on my computer. Occasionally I'll play a game, but it's not like I have the best video card in the world (I have a stock vid-card from HP since my computer is pre-made but that's another topic). So yeah...

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

[KB 34]

Grab a slickdeal because whatever you get will be much better than what you and much nicer. I have a 19" Dell LCD from a a couple years ago that still works fine and my experience with Dell monitors is they're fine.

[Dreamscape]

I bought a hyvision LCD from newegg after my former CRT monitor sparked one day (that was a fun morning!). That was something like three years ago. Not a single problem.

[Devil Wears Prado]

I'm leaning on this one.

http://reviews.cnet.com/lcd-monitors/asus-vh222h-lcd-display/4505-3174_7-33483122.html?tag=mncol;lst

Any thoughts?

[Agent-X-]

I'm leaning on this one.

http://reviews.cnet.com/lcd-monitors/asus-vh222h-lcd-display/4505-3174_7-33483122.html?tag=mncol;lst

Any thoughts?

I presently own an Asus LCD display and it's my pride and joy... 22" with a full support of input plugs (component, HDMI, etc).

That being said, I can recommend Asus displays. They're pretty good. I might still prefer Samsung over Asus, but that's simply because Samsung is always high quality.

[Devil Wears Prado]

I settled with going to Staples because someone told me that some sites would not accept returns even if there was a dead pixel if you ordered it from them. I was worried about that so I figured I should just go to a store that sells monitors and a store that I know has a good return policy. I settled with a 21.5" wide LCD monitor. Samsung 2233SW. I feel bad though since I was kinda questioning whether or not I should buy it there or online but I was really worried about the return policies so I panicked and bought it on the spot for $220. I looked it up online and it was only $160. Am I stupid? If it was stupid, I'm just going to return it to the store and risk the dead pixel thing online.

[Devil Wears Prado]

Okay nevermind. I'm rest assured. I looked online and Amazon was selling it for around $200 with shipping and handling. And they have a 10 dead pixel warranty, if only 10 pixels are dead then you can return it. Anything less than that you can't. I'm more rest assured with this extra $20 that I forked over for the better return policy.

[Agent-X-]

I don't think you're dumb. It's good to have that return policy. And on that note, Best Buy has some good policies, esp. if you go for their warranty program. They even do pixel repair.

All things considered, one reason I went with Asus was the sheer number of reviews reporting no dead pixels. Asus's quality control does an excellent job of providing displays with no dead pixels. I knew Asus as primarily a motherboard and optical drive manufacturer. Their venture into making displays has proven, once again, that they are quality in everything they do.

On the flipside, waking up dead pixels is not that difficult sometimes. I do most of my online orders through Newegg (usually the best prices no the net), and I resolved that if I had dead pixels, I would attempt to fix it until I either fixed it or made it worse. 10 dead pixel policy? No problem. It'll surely have at least ten of those when I send it back. ;)