Community poll forum: What size monitor do you have for your main computer?

I have a 17" KDS flat screen, lcd, monitor without speakers that is 6 yrs old and love it. Of course when I go to work on a friends new computer and find their monitor has built in speakers I'm jealous. I have to use separate speakers. 15" is too small and 19" is really too big in my opinion but find the 17" is perfect.

Have had the Dell 19" for three or four years, replacing a Dell 17. However we still use some Sony 15s from about 2000 at home and in the office, too. Those were the infamous models that went berserk after a few months and got sent back for replacement and sent back and sent back !-- happily, the final replacements have given long and satisfactory service.

My main Monitor is a 19in Viewsonic LCD and my secondary is a no name 17 in CRT.
This is the 2nd Flat screen I ownewd, the first was so washed out looking I sold it to an enemy

I am back to using my old 17 "CRT one my new 19" LCD Westinghouse died after about 5 months I took it to best buy in Bangor, but I had bought in Portland Maine but, I live in Canada even though best buy ok'd it Bangor would not replace so I have to wait until I go to Portland in May ? It can make one wonder if this is a good way to do business? It is 3hrs for me to drive to Bangor and 5 and Half to Portland,?

i use a 37in lcd for monitor and hdtv with sourround sound. cb

sweet moniter got it in a replacment for a viewsonic pro 19 inch which they discontinued but had to argue with them as they tryed to send me 2 in a row 19inch starter model flat lcds which just sucked in framerate compared to my old pro

i use a HNC 19" LCD monitor i purchased online from "Tiger Direct" at a cost of $129.00.
it is a good clear monitor and i am quite satisfied with it.
it also has speakers and a microphone built in, however, i use high power logitech speakers and a high quality "Labtech" microphone because it is more sensitive and the speakers are extremely high quality because i listen to quite a bit of music on my system.

I watch all my movies DVD or cable on my computer, I just push my office chair oneside and get comfy on the couch. Does everything.

I have a HP 22" LCD widescreen and it's simply fantastic! My old screen is a HP 19" 5:3 CRT, pro version, and I can't believe how much better the 22" is.

My eyes aren't what they should be, and they change their "quality" all the time.

The 19" CRT is seldom sharp, the 22" LCD is always sharp.

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I have an ACER 1916W wide screen LCD. Inepxensive, works great. Only draw back is it doesn't have S video. Didn't have the capability when I bought it, but now do.

I have a Gateway FPD2485W 24" Widescreen monitor. The picture is absolutely gorgeous - bright, crisp, and has wonderful contrast. I do a lot of image processing and have found nothing to dislike.

I have a nice LG 19 inch LCD monitor I picked up last spring. Its a nice size and has a 4ms refresh rate and great color for gaming and videos, etc. I mostly got it because it was large, had a good picture, no glare, was LCD, took up very little space, and had a fast refresh rate for gaming. I use both a 26 inch Sharp LCD HDTV and a Samsung 46 inch 1080P LCD HDTV for movies and television. I dont use cable though, I dont like to pay for such services when there are few HD stations and not many more than I can get over the air for free and the cable companies still show too many commercials. Why pay when I still have to watch all those commercials?! Anyway, I am interested in more High Definition Blu Ray content and High Definition content on the internet for download, that would be great.

19" Acer LCD, i've had close to a year, only 8ms which is the line drawn in the sand for games but as an avid gamer, I've had nothing but a great experience with it! I'll buy Acer again based on this purchase.

Quick response, great color

I bought this TV a little over a year ago, with my income tax refund, for about $1,000. At the time, that much for a 32" widescreen, especially with the specs this model has, was a bargain. Even now, I'm not sorry I purchased it, though I DO wish they'd been available at the prices I've been seeing lately, for 32" HD monitors. No, it doesn't have a built-in HD tuner, but I bought an ATI TV Wonder 650 to take care of that, along with BeyondTV for recording and watching shows.
Anyway, the TV itself has a DVI input, MUCH better than using VGA, and the resolution is 1366x768, dropping a few pixels at the sides (1360x768) when using it as a PC monitor. As I have my PC set up in my bedroom, I actually DO use it for watching DVDs, which look GREAT, especially with PowerDVD essentially upconverting them. The ONLY areas where this TV leaves anything to be desired is the response to its remote control, the fact that its only aspect-ratio adjustment modes are horizontal stretch and full zoom, which cannot be used with the PC connection, and finally, the lack of an HDMI connection. Curiously, for analog or digital standard definition, it cuts off just a hair from the top and bottom, whether this is due to design limitations, or just so that the picture could fill up a LITTLE more of the screen in 4:3 mode without stretching, I'm not sure.
As I mentioned, the picture quality is superb, and having the extra 33% of screen real estate it GREAT for working on documents side-by-side! There's only one notable downside I can see to using a widescreen monitor with a PC, particularly considering how many laptops have 16:9 (or 16:10) screens. Incredibly, the vast majority of even the newest games for PCs either have no widescreen support, or it is VERY poorly implemented. For example, almost none of EA Sports' 2006 titles (06 line, not 2006 released) support WS resolutions without some unofficial tweak, and most of their 07 titles that support WS merely stretch the image, rather than actually expanding the FOV (field of vision).
In any case, if you're considering a new monitor, and want something BIG, I would highly recommend making sure you get something with a DVI input, or HDMI at the very least. The only reason I would put DVI over HDMI is the fact that most video cards now have DVI outputs, and DVI to HDMI adaptors or cables are VERY expensive, as are HDMI cables themselves, usually.