looking to buy a new display for my PC what would you reccomend for 150 - 300 pound price range

[andrewmoore]

hello.

 

just exactly what the heading suggests.

 

what would you reccomend ?

 

many thanks.

[serge c]

I'm very happy with Dell Ultrasharp 2001FP. In the US you can get them pretty cheap if you wait for a deal involving discounts and coupon combinations.

[Ed_Ingold]

If you buy an LCD monitor, budget for an hardware calibrator, like "Eye One Display". It will be useless for photo editing without calibration/profiling.

 

I've had several Viewsonic CRT monitors listed for professional graphics use which touch up well enough with Adobe Gamma. I recently purchased a Viewsonic VP191 LCD monitor which is my favorite after calibration (unusable before). Am LCD monitor is particularly nice because the screen is absolutely flat and 100% utilized (a CRT barely fills 80% of the screen). You can get flat-front CRT's too (e.g., the Viewsonic professional line), which I highly recommend.

[daf]

Good luck!

Not with deciding which one to get but with actually getting one at that price.

All the standard sellers seem to only do CRT's around ﾣ60 or ﾣ400+ price range. LCD's are now influencing the market so much.

 

I've done a bit of research and the favoured makes for Intermediate use (i.e. your + my price range) are : Viewsonic, Samsung, Mitsubishi DiamondPlus range. Seen a refernce to an NEC monitor being very good value for money but I can't find any in the UK.

 

Viewsonic have a new on in their G-range (that price range) coming out sometime in March so I'm hoping a few places will stock that.

[serge c]

I actually don't like either Viesonic or NEC/Mitsubishi CRTs (I mean their higher end models). I find their image quality extremely inconsistent. I used to work for an art school as a PC support guy and when you see a bunch of the same monitors together you realize the consistency problems. Sony seems very consistent. There was another manufacturer that I liked - Iiyama - but the monitors were pretty old, I don't know what they are like now.... We didn't have enough Eizo or Lacie monitors to judge their consistancy.

 

I owned two NEC DiamondPluses myself and I hated them. They were completely different from eachother even though bought from the same vendor at the same time.