On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Leonard Evens <len@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am ready to give up on my Samsung 226CW. I had a lot of success with > a Viewpoint CRT, but it just got to dim, which is why I bought the > Samsung. > (Because of my back I can't manage the weight of a CRT.) I called > Xrite about another matter and was told they regularly have problems > advising people with Samsungs, but that almost any other of the standard > brands in the range $300-600 should produce decent results. (I can't > see spending several thousand on a first class professional monitor, and > I shouldn't need one for the work I do.) > > I was looking at some monitors at Office Depot today, and i noticed that > the adjustments for Viewpoint monitors seemed similar to those on my > CRT, although I suppose they do entirely different things. I had a > good understanding of what I was doing when calibrating/profiling my > CRT, but I am still not clear what the best procedure should be for an > LCD, partly because it is not very clear just what the controls do. > > Any recommendations for a monitor that was easy to work with? I'm having very decent results with my HP LP2475w... But are you sure your Samsung really is the problem... Regards, Pascal de Bruijn