Emprex brand 22" LCD any good?

1. Emprex 22" LM2201
As far as i see the Resolution: 1680 x 1050 is a bit low for me but if its ok with you then why not, other specs seem fine.(not many reviews about it)
The Samsung 21.6" 216BW is more knowen but much the same specs.

I went for it (The Emprex LM-2201)...
I was "stalking" a new monitor all Labor Day weekend and it popped up in Fry's Mon. Ad.
$179 after rebate in Woodland Hills, it was $169 in the San Jose Ad? ;-(

They had an Envision 22" for the same price a couple months ago, so I held out.

We got the Samsung 24" (245BW) at work "NICE", and I couldn't bear to look at my old blurry Envision 19" CRT at home. I was thinking about the Samsung 22", but they've been running $325-$350. The company bought the 24", I had to buy my own, so I had to cheap out.

It took a little while to "dial in". It only comes with a VGA cable, No DVI cable (extra $20?).
I used the old video (VGA) cable to hook it up. ACK! No RED!!!? Tried another cable and it started looking better.
Finally I used the cable that came with it and started to look good.
Took a while to get the right resolution set on my ATI A.I.W. 2006. Tried a few settings, rebooted a couple times,
messed around in "Catalyst" and the proper resolution finally came up.

Used Adobe Gamma (comes with Photoshop?) to adjust it some, still had to "wing it" to get it "nice"...
Brightness 100/Contrast 20 on "Picture" pre-set. Everything looks good, but the left road shadow in the "Bliss" wallpaper pic looks purpley? Black Blacks, White whites, neutral Grays.
Good Grays - I drew some Grayscale Color Bars in Illustrator and I can see the difference in the dark darks and light lights.

Don't forget to set Clear Type smoothing in Display/Appearance/Effects, pretty much eliminates the "jaggies" on small (all?) text.

NO Dead Pixels! (a couple dust specks faked me out) A little backlight bleed (1/2" or less?) top & bottom with a screenblanker black screen. The all black screen looks sort of mottled, uneven, 2" dark band at the bottom, a dark blob at the top, but don't notice it on the regular desktop.

The case/bezel looks a little cheap compared to the Samsung, but who looks at that.
The power light is a subdued yellow/green. I hear the 22" Samsung has a bright blue beacon.

5ms vs 2ms? I don't game much, but swinging a window around the text does gray out a bit.

Viewing Angle seems pretty good, a little darkening/lightening as you move your head up/down.
Left/Right goes a little beige on the sides. Not as much as on the Samsung 24".
I guess that is "normal" for LCD screens? Just sitting a normal distance from these bigger sizes
your viewing angle varies 30-45 degrees from on center. Maybe they should build Variable Angle LCDs???

Overall, I'd say I'm pretty satisfied with it.
**** Stars? Great for general use, If you are super picky, spend a lot more.
Minus for the VGA cable only, the uneven backlight, and cheap casework;
+++ for the price, and the picture is nice.

The Ol' 19" CRT is looking pretty sad sitting next to it in a dual monitor set-up.
(Where's my Glasses!!! Oh, I have them on! ;-(

p.s. Firefox's restore previous session is Grrreat! I had a crash in Illustrator 10 while writing this and thought I'd lost it! Lucky you the text was right there in the window. ;-)))

I think Fry's has the LM2201 on sale tomorrow for the after thanksgiving sale for $129.99.