Is there a 22 LCD in the horizon that's worth the wait ?

[DetConan]

I would like to buy myself a new monitor for Christmas. I currently have a NEC Multisync 75 (17 CRT) and I am very pleased with it (good old reliable CRT), but I would like something bigger, a 22inch LCD, in fact. It would be to play games for me (so response time is very important) and photo editing for my girlfriend (so color, etc is very important too).

But I am not very impress by what is now available on the market : reading reviews on many sites for many monitors (even the 226bw of Samsung) i am not entirely sold out to any actual models. There is still some issues of bleeding, sometimes ghosting, other times color, etc...

Is there any announce of a better model coming out in the near future ? One that would worth the wait (at least on the paper) ? Or should i not hold my breath, and accept to keep my little monitor... I do not want to buy me a monitor to regret it the day after...

 

[beatle]

If this is your first LCD, buy it somewhere with a nice return policy. I still use my old 19" CRT for most things and my 19" LCD is basically for browsing only.

 

[xtknight]

Maybe the LG L227WT, a 22" wide-gamut LCD, is worth the wait but we'll just have to wait for reviews.

That said, I'd be wary of using wide gamut monitors for web- or screen-target photo editing. They are best suited to matching screen to prints.

 

[Peter]

There are two things that stand out at the moment: Better color gamut (e.g. Samsung 226CW), and higher resolution (there's one Lenovo so far that does 1920x1200, others will follow).