lcd reccomendation

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elitney

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I am looking for a non-hardcore while still competitive gaming LCD that will be decent to watch movies/animu/etc on... (not asking for perfection in either respect). No graphic design or anything requiring "perfect color," but a nice black would be nice.

ON A $400 BUDGET...what is the best lcd with:

NON-WIDESCREEN
~5ms for games
1280x1024 OR 1600x1200 max resolution (basically 18-20.x, no 17inchers)
tilt would be nice for viewing angle while watching stuff from bed

Looking at the Samsung 204B and Samsung 940BX...but both seem to have serious design flaws, (flickering and noticable vertical color gradient respectively).

If this is too general, feel free to delete, apologies in advance.
 
Why not go 22" wide? 226BW and w2207 both are fairly good TN panels.
If you have to have 20" get a HP LP2065.
 
yeah if you don't go widescreen you'll regret it very soon. all the newer games support it and it's much nicer for everything else as well.
 
Widescreen IMO. I like the 24" as the perfect size, since I can still do 1600x1200 in the center of the panel.
 
one thing is that some games dont allow widescreen since it allows more viewable area, hence the advantage, but is it REALLY that much better?

I bought a 226bw and returned it after 2 days, it wasnt bad...but I couldnt play BF2142 and some others, and it seemed to wash out my videos/shows...

then again I have been using a viewsonic 18" viewable CRT since 2002 at 1600x1200...

i just miss tiny pixel pitch...

so EVERYONE says widescreen? :D

btw - thanks for advice so far
 
what do you mean you couldn't play bf2142? there is a fix so you can run widescreen resolutions on it but maybe you are talking about the fps was too low at the lcds native res.
 
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