Nothing but good things to say about SmallHD. I have 4 of them for various tasks. They are great, affordable, and dependable monitors. I always recommend people towards that company (good customer support too based on my experience with them).
SWIT also has some followers around here. Warren Eig wrote up a good review of one of their monitors last year: https://blogs.creativecow.net/blog/12805/breviewb-swit-s1070f-monitor-review
Additionally there are monitors sub-$1000 made by Marshall and Ikan that you can investigate. In today’s market there are so many more choices than just 5 years ago.
Ikan: https://ikancorp.com/productlisting.php?id=75
Marshall: https://www.marshallmonitors.com/products/monitors/index.html
Ryan Holmes
http://www.ryanholmes.me
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