I am in the market for my first LCD. I thought I was going to keep my amazing 19" Sony Trinitron CRT forever, but sadly, I have no space for the monster anymore, so I must venture into the world of LCDs. I have been trying to parse through the incredible amount of information in this thread, but I just can't seem to get my head around it all. Maybe somebody can just kind of *tell* me what to do, because I am so confused. I did some looking and I found the Dell 2007WFP, which looked like a great LCD with a very low price. However, after reading this thread, and learning about the panel switch thing, there is no way I am going to buy it, especially since I kind of had a thing against dell... Now I am just confused (did I already say that?).
So here's what I need.
I will be doing internet/office type work, along with watching moves (pretty important for me), audio recording (don't know how much this factors into a display, but I will be doing a lot of it), playing games (not really hard core, but I don't want a completely terrible monitor for gaming), possibly a bit of photo editing, although that is not a high priority. Basically, I need an all around, good for almost everything LCD. As I said, I was originally planning on getting a 2007WFP, which at the time cost $380, but now costs $320. So, I would be willing to spend probably around $350 or so. I definitely value quality over size, but I don't want to get anything under 20", because this LCD is going along with my new 17" laptop, and I want to actually have a size difference to make it worth buying. I am pretty sure I want a widescreen for watching movies, so I haven't looked into any 4:3 displays.
I have noticed many 22" screens that are priced similarly to the 20.1", and I don't know if there is a picture quality issue between them and the 20" screens, because they appear to have the same resolution (1680x1050). That extra 22" is a kind of enticing though.... If somebody can point out a great 22" screen in my price area, that would be sweet.
I appreciate any help I can get here, and I really like this thread. I'm going to keep reading it and googling like crazy until I can come up with something. I hope I can kind of get pushed in the right direction though.
EDIT: I have just been reading this thread, and I have been turned on to the LG L226WTQ-BF.
I googled it and I see the advantages as being:
1.fast response time, no lag, good for gaming, good for movies.
2. good color quality, and image quality.
3. right at my price range.
Disadvantages are:
1. bad greyscale performance. I don't think this is an issue for anything i am doing though, but I am not sure what the implications are.
Is there anything else I should know about this LCD?
Oh yeah, and it looks like there are a ton of revisions to this monitor. Have there been a lot of improvements over previous L226 models?