I'm expecting (or at least hoping) that this deal will come back again later this summer.
I went to Fry's yesterday and checked this monitor out. I must say, its a pretty nice deal.
The bezel and stand were pretty good quality and sturdy. The monitor is low profile and did not take up very much space. I also played around with the OSD menu. The AUTO adjustment settings worked pretty well. Brightness was adequate, in fact perfect for my tastes. I've seen some LCD's that are really bright, but wash out dark and black colors. Fortunately, there were some high res pictures loaded on the computer that the monitor was connected to. This allowed me to test the color and clarity reproduction. Images were very clear, colors were accurately reproduced, and brightness was perfect. Color and brightness seemed to be consistent across the entire screen. Black was actually reproduced as black, which was one of the most attractive characteristics of this monitor.
I also did some crude analysis of text and ghosting using Microsoft Word and Internet Explorer. Ghosting was minimal on text (definitely nothing that bothered me). And although this monitor is analog only (this monitor was connected DIRECTLY to the computer's video card...no splitting of video signals), text was clear using clear type fonts. I was able to pretty clearly read text until size 9 in Time New Roman.
I did not notice any dead pixels, but I did not look very closely.
This LCD is impressive for a price of $299, and if it goes down to that price again...it will be hard for me to resist snatching it up and giving my mom my 17" CRT

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