[QUOTE="Makari"]Right now the Dell 2209WA is the favorite in the 22" range - if you call Dell sales directly you can generally offer $215 for it and get it, free shipping. It's an IPS panel with low input lag and pretty accurate colors out of the box (not a wide-gamut panel, so the colors actually match up too).Velocitas8
Yeah, I've heard a lot of good things about the Dell 2209WA. Almost bought one myself.
Just to put a little of my personal experience out there: I actually picked up an NEC EA23WMi recently (decided I wanted a 16:9 IPS panel), which I'm loving. The advertised response time is a bit high, but I'm getting no input lag/ghosting (even playing an extremely fast-paced game like UT2004.) The color reproduction and black levels are much better than my old TN panel, and portrait mode (monitor pivots 90 degrees clockwise with the stock stand) is so damn cool for browsing and image viewing. Also has some other cool features like an automatic brightness adjustment depending on changes in the brightness of the room it's in, as well as the brightness of image displayed on-screen (it's done in small steps, so it's extremely hard to notice the change in backlight intensity. You can disable this, of course.)
The Dell 2209WA sounds perfect for you, though..especially at that price. Seconding Makari's recommendation. I'll never buy another TN panel.
If you want a mind=blown moment, even S-PVA do the same things that TN panels do, though it's about 10% as strong and it's in a concentric circle instead. The center of the monitor is a bit darker than the outside edges as long as you're sitting and looking at it straight-on - from off-angles everything's even. It's really hard to notice, though. Most HDTV's use PVA panels, save LG and Panasonic, IIRC. 
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