the time has come, my crt monitor has annoyed me for the last time, so tomorow i want to replace it with an LCD. difficulty is i only have 250 dollars to spend on it. any opinions?

damn.. i just had a flash back to last century

have you tried computar stores?

I heard Viewsonic where good.

Stretch it to $330ish and get a Chimei/Benq/Acer/Proview 22" LCD

theres a 19in widescreen benq there for $225

i imagine that would do the trick

aww I payed $504 for my samsung 19". I wish technology advanced slower.

While we're at it, what would be a decent widescreen, possibly HD, tv for playing xbox360 on? I saw a samsung thing in dick smith power house that looked pretty sweet.

anything lcd whoop, and you cant go wrong

just go as big as the budget will allow

I picked up a 19" Benq widescreen for $250 exactly... how's that?

anything lcd whoop, and you cant go wrong

I was looking at LCD monitors, but their native res isn't the same as a wide screen HD res 1920x1200 for a 24" LCD vs 1920x1080 being the actual resolution outputted by the console. Playing at non-native res looks like ass on my 19" LCD. Or do you mean any LCD HDTV as opposed to plasma/projection?

Can you not set the LCD so it doesn't stretch the vertical resolution?

lcd tv whoop, u can use it as a monitor then as well

i finaly let go of my 21inch fd trinitorn 2 weeks ago, dual 20inch lcd widescreens ftw.

yeah i just picked up a 20.1" acer today from msy looks brilliant!. so happy. goodbye chunky crt! :) thx for the info guys.

Can you not set the LCD so it doesn't stretch the vertical resolution?

Nope, most of them stretch and don't give an option to blackbar.

picked up a 19" Viewsonic Widescreen Multimedia tv display for $349 from wow.

Pretty impressed so far
has DVI (HDCP) / D-SUB (aswell as adaptor for Component to d-sub)
SCART (a/v scart (dosnt work with component adapters)
+ A/V Input, and then TV Tuner(ufortunetly not digital).
5ms response.
was just after a Display with A/V/Component in, didnt realise it have TV Tuner built in till i got home.

Is Viewsonic any good? I always saw it as the bottom of the line, cheap s*** brand.

well viewsonic have been making PC monitors for yonks 10++years at least that i remember, so i see them to be better then the other no namers that are stocked.

im in the same boat. My monitor is about to die on me, the colours on each side are starting to f*** up and go all wierd :( and im quite a noob as to what to look for in monitors

trying to keep bellow $350ish mark

http://www.computeralliance.com.au/parts.aspx?qryPart=7342

have been checking this out

I have 7950gt that has hdcp and dvi. does that monitor support hd s***? and is that pretty much the best you can get for $350?

thanks :D

thats a pretty good deal

http://www.computeralliance.com.au/productimages/7939.jpg
20" (55cm) Samsung 206W Widescreen LCD or

http://www.computeralliance.com.au/productimages/7342.jpg
22" (55cm) BenQ FP222W WideScreen LCD Monitor?


last edited by sc00bs at 11:45:11 04/Sep/07

Is Viewsonic any good? I always saw it as the bottom of the line, cheap s*** brand.

thier lcd's don't have as good specs as samsung but are reasonable for the price.. but viewsonics made good quality crts in the past (very good dot pitch on em). i rekn the samsung 226bw is the shiz atm... it's specs are way ahead of the other brands atm, but it is more than $350. i'd pay en extra hundred just for the phat contrast ratio.

22" is so mid norties

28"? drop it like its hawt

http://www.viewsonic.com/products/lcddisplays/xseries/vx2835wm/

i think i might go and pick one of the samsung 226bw's tomorrow then :D

Myself, I'm tossing up between a Samsung 226bw and a Dell UltraSharp 2407WFP.
Really want full HD support but I want a super fast monitor for the games.
Maybe the dells will be a little faster by January.

One worry I have with these super high contrast ratio monitors is, is this monitor going to be so bright I can't see the black areas.
3000:1 is such a big step over 700-1000:1, it sounds as if you could light a room with the screen.