LCD Monitor recommendations?

[Shane Ross]

Samsung monitors are good. 2243 BWX is what I am sitting in front of now. Nice, not too big, good color.

Shane

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[Peter Rafalow]

Thanks. I’ll check it out.

[Dino]

Until Apple figures out who they want to sell monitors to, I would stay away from them. The new 24′ is a technical marvel and mostly unusable. Their old line is just that, old. NEC is my usual favorite though they tend to cost more than most people want to spend.

I just happen to have done a little research into this recently and settled on two choices from HP. They both include good tech at a price that competes well. The first is a traditional 4 by 3 monitor at 20 inches, the LP2065. The second is a 24 inch widescreen monitor, the LP2475w.

The 20 incher is essentially a direct replacement of what you have now, just new and exciting. I personally would skip a 20 or 22 inch wide screen as you lose vertical resolution compared to the CRTs you are using now. I never liked losing the height even at the gain of width.

Some technological considerations. Though they are just starting to fill in at the top, two technologies that should become more commonplace in the near future, LED backlighting and 10 bit panels, represent a big improvement over the fluorescent lighting and 6 or 8 bit panels more common now.

[Bob Zelin]

you have a MAC G5 ? Meridian, Adrenaline, Mojo ?

If you have a Meridian card set, the Number 9 card (EDC3 or EDC4) will create NOISE on any LCD monitor.

If you have a modern system (Adrenaline, Mojo, etc.), any monitors you get will look teriffic.

Bob Zelin

[Ervin Tia]

Is this for desktop application (UI) or for actual program monitor purposes? I would always have a reference CRT video monitor to view my program.

I’m using a pair of Viewsonics for my workstation then a JVC video monitor for program and color correction.