Having just bought a new monitor (a Videocom from Grace Bros of all places),
Michael's point is pretty much right on. You can tie yourself up worrying
about aperture grills, dot pitches and screen coatings or just ask the
salesperson to give you a live demo. The setup at GB was running through one
of those fancy Windows gaming benchmarks and gave a good demo of the colour
purity and edge sharpness.
The Videocom is a 17" "DynaFlat" shadow mask monitor - sharp and nice
straight edges all for $518 without delivery - there's probably about 2 or 3
left. If you compare that to the current Sony, LG and Panasonic flat 17"
monitors which are all ~$700, it's pretty much a hot bargain. The
aforementioned trio haven't dropped much in price and especially the LG
which has dropped from around $750 to $720 in the last 9 months. Bit of a
monitor cartel if you ask me ;-)
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