was wanting a newer make of 19" lcd monitor and wanted to ask which make is better, and what make of monitor is the best ?

was thinking of buying one of these monitors

Sony SDM-S95DRS with 8ms reponse time, 250 cd/m2 brightness and 1000:1 contrast ratio

or the

IIyama E1900S-S with 5ms reponse time, 300 cd/m2 brightness and 700:1 contrast ratio

Samsung, unequivocally.

i would never go with samsung, thier reliabilty on crt's i've had and got for people and not one of them has lasted past 5 years, and most times they fail within warrenty as well, plus for price, reliability and features and specs iiyama has beaten samsung year on year out

Samsung LCDs are best for reliability and, most importantly, color correctness. I've got a 243T, and I love it. I'll snag a 245T once they become available.

all the samsung lcds i see are 20-50 pounds more expensive have lower contrast ratios and brightness levels and pc pro magazine gives them a good review but viewsonic allways gets the best marks, its like £246 pound for the cheapest dvi samsung monitor, were as the iiyama monitor has same spec nearly and is only £193

allthough the syncmaster 940BF looks good with 2ms response and 700:1 contrast though but at £240 it should be

They're coming out with some nice new panels very soon...
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=4921

seen a awesome viewsonic monitor, the vx922 19" monitor with great reponse of 2ms with no drawback to overdriving the response unlike the samsung equivelant


only getting a new monitor cause i got a really old make of lcd, the lg flatron L1920B with a really crappy response of 25ms

lol changed my mind again, a website offering £20 off voucher and they got a samsung 940bf with 700:1 contrast, 300 cd/m2 and 2ms refresh rate and a dvi connection, what bugs we is alot of monitor that are dvi dont supply the dvi cable with the monitor. only samsung and benq supply both cables

That looks like a very nice monitor .

i'm looking at a sony HS 95 D, and happy to have bought it, a very steady image, and fast response

well i like that monitor cause it got a free game with it and its one of the best monitors for gaming, plus it got a awesome response of 2 ms, in tests never went above 10ms on any image which is brilliant in lcd terms

Theoretically, as long as your response times are 16ms or less, you won't see a difference. Your PC only refreshes video images at 60 frames per second, so once you drop below a 16ms response time, you won't see a benefit.

But given that gray-to-gray response times are hardly an accurate representation of a monitor's response time, you'd still want a monitor specified at a lower resposne time (6ms or less). I don't understand why white-to-black response times aren't the standard.

well i've ordered the 940BF samsung monitor, everywere i looked it was £240-260 and then thought have a look at amazon and thier it was at a price of £199.99p with free delivery

Samsung are good, no doubt, but unorder it at once! What you must get is this is one, the best at the moment:

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/ProductInfo.aspx?ProductID=13504&GroupID=420

The best feature being that it is glass-fronted. At 8ms as well you'd do well to out-perform it, and the quality cannot be beaten.

got the samsung today and through digital output , it so crisp and not seen a single bit of blurring yet, a brillient monitor