LG IPS226V-PN 21.5IN Widescreen LED Backlit LCD Monitor IPs 1920X1080 5ms 5000000:1 VGA DVI HDMI

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I bought this on sale for $199.99 and it's awesome in my opinion, you do have to adjust a little the colors but you'll get a couple of web sites with some profiles for this. I'm gaming a little with it too and it's very good at it.

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This is a very good monitor that you can have fun to fine tune exactly to what you prefer. Personnally, I adjusted the britness in sRGB mode to 10 to make it less intense for the eyes and have a better luminance match of the pictures I print in a professional lab.

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This is the best LCD screen I have used, the image settings out of the box were somewhat off and clearly off with any preset other than warm. Changed color temp to "user" set red to 56, Green to 59, blue to 56 results in a slightly saturated level which is great for games 46, 49, 46 is likely almost perfect for accuracy. Though screens may not be all the same in this regard for example Digital says set green to 41 and blue to 41 which was clearly way off.for whites while having great black levels the best settings appear to be contrast 60, gamma 2.0 is best 2.2 was a little too dark. For brightness the lower the better; I run at 35% brightness levels.The viewing angles are great, gaming is also great tried Mass Effect 2 and Killing Floor. Firewalker mission from the DLC when the quakes happen after you enable the sensors and everything shakes even the image of the ship you are flying shakes. With this screen I could tell where the ship was centered within the shaking but on my 2ms TN panel it was so jumpy I had to stop flying at each quake it was too hard to focus. In Killing Floor the monsters were easier to to spot, the contrast levels within the colors helped greatly verses any other TN panel I've used.Resolution scaling - both screens are 1080P but this screen clearly does better at other resolutions. I can finally play Mass Effect 2 in full screen at 1600x900 (very small black borders on the top and bottom but looks well scaled but horrible for desktop res blurry) without having the characters looking short and wide or at 1680x1050 (16:10 verses 16:9) and it still looks good full screen and does not black out any part of the screen at that res when in Mass Effect 2.I do not know if this monitor is a true 8 bit IPS, some say the cheaper price is because it is 6bit color. However what I do know is I set up both screens side by side in clone mode and the IPS clearly had more vivid colors especially in the fine detail within images I had taken with my digital camera.It would be hard to think of ever going back to a TN panel, the PX2370 was the best out of the 3 others I had in recent years and this LG panel is clearly better. The biggest down fall was the image out of the box, read reviews and expected this. Printed some high quality photo print outs and used a gray scale bar with white to grays to black transitions for setting up my colors and contrast. The whites aren't super bright like the PX2370 while maintaining the black levels however the mid gray contrasts and color contrast is way better. Also the whites are the same levels as my previous 3 panels before so it shouldn't be of concern. The difference is a white gloss paint verses a white semi gloss paint.Screen doesn't look glossy, which I am very happy about. Glossy screens can sometimes have too much reflection, no noticeable reflections. Only has tilt but with good viewing angles this really shouldn't be an issue. Base of screen has rubber feet that do a good job of preventing the screen from slipping on a surface. If monitor is pushed on top corner there is a bit of wobble of mount to screen but not the base itself.There is a blue light on bottom right corner when on and flashes slowly when on stand which luckily isn't overly bright, unlike the one on my old Samsung PX2370.