Need help choosing new monitor!

Thanks for the help...

Just check it out in the store and see if you like it....

Check things like how the black level is (how dark is black).
Does the color shift too much from the top of the screen to the bottom or from side to side?

You could also play some movies on it an give it a try.

Also, you might want to look up the model on pricegrabber.com before you buy it as the prices right now are more than you would pay online (even with the supposed discount they already have -- that is if they didn't mark it up before they even added the discount; they have a rather unscrupulous company handling the selling of the products, who told the employees to lie to the customers about the discounting.)

I am about to order a Samsung 226BW and it sounds like something you should look at as well. After a $30 rebate it comes in a few cents under $350 with s&h:

http://www.techonweb.com/products/productdetail.aspx?id...

It has superior specs and great reviews:

http://www.overclockersonline.net/?page=articles&num=93...

http://www.trustedreviews.com/displays/review/2007/03/0...

CompUSA also carries it:

http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?pfp=sr...

but is not showing it with a rebate.