Acer monitors

Anyone have experience with the Acer monitors? How's the build quality and the picture quality? I understand that they, for the lack of a better term, have their own type of dynamic contrast ratio, how good is it? I'm looking at this one in paticular:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6824009127

Any experience good or bad would be helpful.

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My monitor is also an Acer, an AL2216WBD:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applica [...] =A179-2204

Before I bought it (it was originally my wife's monitor, but she recently got another one when my old crt gave up), I did extensive review searches for this model...as well as Acer in general.

The Acer brand is generally known for being reliable and having few defects, but they are not know for their color depth when compared to other brands. (Even other TN panel LCDs.)

However, since this model in particular was a major upgrade for her at the time, she didn't mind. (And, she said it looked much better.) I cannot, however, give you an honest opinion in regard to color from my perspective, as I am moderately colorblind.

As for performance though, the monitor was in near constant use for a little over a year from its original purchase date of 6/27/07, and since I have acquired it and it has become less used it is still working as fine as it can be.

If you will be placing the monitor somewhere that requires the monitor to have a large degree of vertical screen "tilt" to be able to view it directly, make sure to look at the specs of your model. Mine will only move a total of about 15 degrees.

I have a 2 year old Acer 17" (AL1717)

Image quality, color accuracy and viewing angles have nothing on my old CRT. But that's true of pretty much any LCD, so no real complaints. It's been reliable and it didn't cost a lot so I'm happy.

Thanks for some of the feedback guys. My parents have a samsung 19" LCD, nothing special. In general as far as picture and color how do they compare to each other? One thing I do like about the specific acer monitor is the high resolution on the 19" screen.

+1 for the recommendation on a 22/21.5" widescreen at 1680x1050 recommendation, as it is the "new standard" for monitor size

+1 on Turboflame. I have 2 17" Acers running in dual monitor configuration. They are reliable with no dead pixels. The main one is used in the evening for hardcore gaming, and I have no problem with ghosting, refresh, blur etc.

That said, I am hoping to ditch the two and move to a single new 23" 16:9 monitor that Acer just released with an MSRP of $225 (street price $180?).

My friend and I both did our own separate research, and we both picked that exact monitor for his new build. It cost him $175 then. He has been using it for about 6 months and is still quite happy with it AFAIK. At $140 it's even better value.

I have an Acer P221w, from Circuit City. It is a 22" screen with 1680x1050 resolution and 5ms response time. It works well for games and DVD's.

Look at the x223w 22" first! It's only $20 more.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] &Tpk=x223w

I have bought 2 19" and 2 22" in the last few months with no complaints. (At least for the price). They were not all for me though, I build computers for my company. I'm actually buying 7 more of the x223w's next month. They are outstanding for the price!