HYUNDAI 19-Inch 5MS/SPK/BLK/DVI LCD Monitor

 (2 customer reviews)

In the same price range, you can find 19" monitors with 3 times the resolution and half the response time, and that fact alone almost had me wanting to return it. In fact, at a retailer which I won't mention, I saw a Samsung monitor with a 20,000:1 contrast ratio and 2ms response time for $209. That's just slightly more than what this costs, but offering so much more in terms features.

So why did I decide to keep this monitor? The answer is the viewable screen size. Instead of making this the typical 19" widescreen monitor that you would expect to see at the electronics store, Hyundai instead made it taller than most monitors. This not only saves desk space, which in my case is a value-adding feature of this product, but it also gives web pages an unusual amount of "breathing room."

In fact, other monitors with this kind of viewable screen size typically run in the range of $300.

One other feature I might mention is the built in speakers, which does...Read more

Monitor is bright; no bad pixels. Control layout is reasonable. Speakers are a stopgap only until you get something decent - I found some cheaply on eBay.