On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 17:51 -0600, Leonard Evens 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 found at clarkvision.com, a site I've found useful before, the suggestion that one should avoid a TN monitor and use an S-IPS monitor instead. The reason is to provide less dependence on viewing angle. I have notices with my Smasung monitor that there is a strong dependence on the vertical viewing angle, so my position with respect to the monitor is important in order to avoid an apparent vertical gradient. Given that I can control just how I view the monitor, how important is this? Are all TN type monitors deficient in this respect, or are some better than others? >