I don't know if any of you are in the market for a LCD monitor, but if you are, head down to your local Circuit City and check out the Acer 2216WBD. Since the beginning of summer, I had been looking at the 2416 model monitor [the 24" widescreen monitor] which was more than $700 at that time. Well, a new friend of mine was looking at XBox360 stuff and I wandered over to the monitors at a few different stores. I went to Best Buy and saw a 24" Gateway monitor for about $650. That seemed like a good price, but the brightness/contrast ratio was not quite what I wanted [as compared to the 24" Acer that I had been drooling about over the summer]. I saw the 22" widescreen Acer at Circuit City and it was on sale for $299! Comparing 22" to 24" is only a slight difference when you consider over $350 saved.
Now here's the kicker - Samsung, which has an awesome guarantee in their no dead/stuck pixel policy, had a 22" widescreen monitor with the same specs as the Acer was right next to it and was $499! I brought the Acer home, hooked it up and did a little investigation. No stuck or dead pixels anywhere. Most companies have a policy that the monitor will have no more than a certain amount of stuck/dead pixels. The brightness/contrast ratio as compared to my Dad's 19" Dell monitor is awesome - I had to turn the brightness down when I hooked it up to his computer.
After taxes, I paid about $325 but that is still an amazing value for such a big, wide screen.
Cliff notes: Bought a big, high quality computer LCD for cheap.
Now here's the kicker - Samsung, which has an awesome guarantee in their no dead/stuck pixel policy, had a 22" widescreen monitor with the same specs as the Acer was right next to it and was $499! I brought the Acer home, hooked it up and did a little investigation. No stuck or dead pixels anywhere. Most companies have a policy that the monitor will have no more than a certain amount of stuck/dead pixels. The brightness/contrast ratio as compared to my Dad's 19" Dell monitor is awesome - I had to turn the brightness down when I hooked it up to his computer.
After taxes, I paid about $325 but that is still an amazing value for such a big, wide screen.
Cliff notes: Bought a big, high quality computer LCD for cheap.