Originally posted by: 10e
You may want to look at the BenQ FP241W/VW and you can get it from the store.benq.us for $499 and use a coupon code of "thankyou10" and get an additional 10% off. If the ugly, fat stand is not a problem for you, this is a good screen, and they've fixed the blackout issues with the June 2007 and later build dates, which you are guaranteed to get from their web site. According to users, their web sites policies exceed NewEgg's and most other online retailers, allowing a full satisfaction guarantee.
While the calibration over DVI is nothing to write home about, it is a lower lag alternative than the Soyo and the Westinghouse. I measured it vs. a CRT at 1920x1200 and 1920x1080 at average of under 10ms, so BenQ has done some serious work on the speed of this display. When the scaler gets employed this goes up to average of 30ms, which is still good, but can be counteracted by using video card scaling.
Alternatively, after calibration it is excellent, and it has useful connectivity with HDMI, component, VGA, and s-video/composite as well as DVI-D, and probably has the best aspect ratio scaling outside of the NEC LCD2xWUXI screens. It can do 480p, 720p, 1080i and 1080p very well, and has full PC aspect ratio scaling/support too.
It may not have the super contrast ratio of the Dell and Samsung (it's about 700 to 800:1 at best), but it is much lower lag, and it is a mature product that works very well with both PC and consoles, and it is standard gamut, which is better if you are editing sRGB images. I use mine for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 and am very happy with it in general now.
It has that horrible stand, but it is probably a better, albeit slightly more expensive MVA choice over the other two here. I am also an owner of a Westinghouse L2410NM which I love dearly, but has broken down on me too, unfortunately. It is a very good monitor, but quality is definitely not a strong point it seems, and Westinghouse is simply a distribution point for it so their support of this screen is less than optimal.
Your other choice is the Dell, whose input lag apparently has gone down by 1.5 frames with the new "part number" revision, but this is one, so far unsubstantiated report, so I'm personally waiting myself to find out how true it is, because I've used a screen that had similar input lag, and it was fairly painful to me.