LCD monitors- I need some advice.

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Urizen

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I have a standard monitor, and I want to replace it with a LCD monitor, because I heard it's better for the eyes, and radiates less.
I wanna spend around 200 euros on it and that's an average price for a middle class screen, nothing special but not the cheepest type either.
Anyway I asked a friend of mine, who's  almost a professional computer expert (he doesn't have an LCD monitor though), and he said that I should buy one of the most expensive ones(around 350-400Euros), and that all except that would be a waste of money, as in his opinion they are no better than my current non-LCD monitor, in how much they affect the eyes. Now I think that's a price too big, and I wanna hear other people's thought's as well.
The question is can I buy a solid LCD monitor for 200E.
So any opinion from those of you who had some experience with the subject would be most welcomed. Thanks in advance.
 
My advice is to get one that you can afford.
From my own anecdotal experience, they are by far better. It takes up far less room on my desk, which is nice. My eyes hurt less after working on one, it seems that it has a sharper picture. I've heard similar things from other people too.

My best advice, as always, is to get a laptop.
 
I have 3 LCD monitors, the most of expensive of which was USD 200 (which is considerably less than 200 euros). 3 different brands - Envision, Norwood and View Sonic. All of them work great and a have a perfect, sharp picture. I believe your friend is wrong, Urizen. While more expensive monitors may be better, that doesn't mean inexpensive monitors are bad.

However, I should also note that all 3 of my monitors are 17". If you want a larger size, you'll need to pay more.
 
I have to agree, that for an all-day computer work LCD is definitely better. I know that when I occasionally switch from LCD to CRT, my eyes start to hurt quite soon. CRT type monitors may have better colours and faster response to image changes, which may be important for gaming, but today's LCDs are fast enough (I used to play 3D action game on notebook with no problem three (!) years ago). One advantage of CRTs is that they are naturally able to display different screen resolutions. LCDs are built for one specific, cannot display higher resolutions and lower resolutions are usually displayed by stretching the image which may result in a poor image - probably depends on a display driver, I'm not sure. So this is a hint - if you need to display large amount of data, seek for a larger display (programming, DTP etc., not needed for office-work, I think), but I believe this is the same as for classic monitors (with a small difference - LCD takes notably less place on a table :-)
 
All right, thanks for the info. Now what about the brand?
Sinister mentioned Norwood,Envision and Viewsonic.

Except Viewsonic these are not available in my city. I was thinking Samsung, LG, Asus... ?
 
Well, I think one of the things SMX was hinting at is that brand isn't all too important. You are looking for functionality and honestly any brand can give you that. Specially at 200 Euros or less.
 
There's one thing you need to pay attention to. What time of response the monitors have. If you are to play computergames, you don't want to buy a monitor with more than 12 millisecond time of response.
 
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