I bought the Viewsonic VA1912WB (my wife now uses it, though). Movies very nice, with the only problem being that backlight bleeding is slightly higher on this LCD compared to the LCDs in my sig. My main problem was that it did not scale properly, even though I have selected all the proper options for my video card driver. My other LCDs scale fine under the same conditions. Otherwise its a very good display for the price. There is some ghosting, but not too bad. Its a 6-bit TN panel, so you need to watch movies from stright ahead. The viewing angles are noticably worse than my other BenQ TN LCDs.
The next step up would be a 20" widescreen - Viewsonic has a very good SPVA display, but costs $100 more.