LG W2240T 22-Inch Monitor (Black)

This is an excellent display device for the price. It exhibits rich but natural colors and clearly legible text, video parameters (brightness, contrast, sharpness, etc.) are easily adjustable and produces essentially no glare even in brightly lit environments. The downsides: the stand is cheap and thin plastic with only a 5% viewing angle adjustment available; no HDMI input (but does have DVI).

REVIEW UPDATE: Found a HUGE dealbreaker for me in regards to this monitor that may not apply to some people, but I figured it should be listed. When this monitor goes into standby mode, its large LED power button blinks on and off. You CAN NOT turn off this feature, I even asked LG. You can turn off the power button light itself, but when it goes into standby, the light goes back to blinking. Sure it's a soft glow you say but try that in a completely dark room with two of these monitors and it gets old quick. It's an absolute shame because I really like this monitor and this is my second try to find one that I'm happy with, but if I can't sleep while these sleep, it's a no go for me. I can't go without mentioning my opinion that LG knows how to make a beautiful picture, but whoever decided that a large blinking light was an acceptable behavior for a monitor in standby is an idiot. It makes no sense. (End update, see below for original review)

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First of all: this monitor only comes with a VGA cable, and can only support VGA and DVI-D input. Also, although it's labeled as a 22 inch monitor, the visible display is 21.5 inches (diagonal of course). The display is also matte, not glossy.

One slight problem, which may have just been a defect in my item, was that the top left corner of the monitor had a blue hue when displaying blacks. This is not noticeable when seen directly head-on, but because I was trying to use this as second monitor, my viewing angle was from the right and this bothered me very much so I returned it.

I bought this monitor as a companion to my late 2009 21.5" iMac. Using VGA, this monitor was not officially recognized by my iMac (the computer just used a generic labeling of "VGA/SVGA Monitor" ) and could only display a maximum resolution of 1680 x 1050 which was disappointing as I had mainly bought the screen so that I could have identical screen real-estate for both displays. I...Read more