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As the title says, I'm in the market for a decent 24". My price limit isn't too high, preferably under $600, the lower the better, that being the absolute max. My general uses are gaming and watching anime (fansubs) with the occasional movie. After pouring through hundreds of topics on various forums, I still can't come to a decision. Since I'm generally not in front of my screen when watching any media (7' to 10' away from monitor) viewing angles shouldn't cause too much of a problem, right? This monitor would be for me in a different room so the set-up might change a bit - I might be farther back, or a tad closer - but generally it should be the same. As for gaming, I'm not hardcore or anything but I do play a good chunk of Team Fortress 2 and can possibly see myself picking up CoD4 and Mass Effect, any other game the input lag probably wouldn't bother me. Non-PC wise, I'd like to be able to hook up a Wii to it (will be buying once I can find it in stock) and hopefully nothing is too bad there. Text, obviously must be legible, it will also be used for general tasks like writing reports and what not. I might hop on Photoshop/GIMP every now and then too but colour reproduction is nothing at the top of my list but I'd still like something decent. With all that said, I'd really like to avoid a TN panel but after the research, it doesn't seem like that will be possible/cheap/easy.
I was thinking the Westinghouse L2410NM but I've heard there being problems with it later in its lifetime. That and it's becoming increasingly more difficult for me to find. The next on my list was the BenQ FP241VW. Not too sure on this so input would be nice. It is a tad more than I wanted to spend but recommendations may sway me. After those too I'm drawing blanks. Monitors are foreign to me as I just got into the PC field maybe a year back and am still soaking in stuff from other hardware. As mentioned, avoid TN if possible. If it's something you'd really recommend and/or the viewing angles don't matter as described in the above statements then I guess I wouldn't mind. If there's any other information you'd like from me, let me know, I'll be stopping back often. Thanks!
I was thinking the Westinghouse L2410NM but I've heard there being problems with it later in its lifetime. That and it's becoming increasingly more difficult for me to find. The next on my list was the BenQ FP241VW. Not too sure on this so input would be nice. It is a tad more than I wanted to spend but recommendations may sway me. After those too I'm drawing blanks. Monitors are foreign to me as I just got into the PC field maybe a year back and am still soaking in stuff from other hardware. As mentioned, avoid TN if possible. If it's something you'd really recommend and/or the viewing angles don't matter as described in the above statements then I guess I wouldn't mind. If there's any other information you'd like from me, let me know, I'll be stopping back often. Thanks!
