[QUOTE="sSubZerOo"] A few years back I would have said CRT for numerous reasons.. CRT was always sharper, instant reaction time where LCDs had trouble with ghosting, cheaper etc etc... THat is not the case now adays, where you can get a quality LCD 22" for as cheap as $250 or even less..subrosian

That's absolutely laughable. Calling a 6-bit TN panel "quality" is like calling a Go-Cart a Porsche 911. That's meerly a functional monitor*

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Do yourself a favor - don't ask here. Head over to HardOCP or AVS before you wind up making a bad purchase, and then trying to justify it by recommending it to others. This is unfortunately a forum where people equate blinding brightness and screen size with quality. You're getting a lot of POS monitors recommended to you, a whole lot of POS monitors. The moment someone starts trying to tell you their $250 LCD has "5000:1 contrast ratio" or that "response time" is a valuable indicator on TN monitors (of course they're fast, they're throwing away over 16 million colors) you need to walk away and talk to someone who actually deals with this kind of stuff.

The difference is night and day. The monitor is something you absolutely *cannot* cheap out on, suck it up, bite the bullet, do the right thing, and if you're going LCD look for an S-IPS panel. If you're going CRT, don't get a $200 bargain-bin POS, call up ViewSonic or LaCie and start asking some questions. A monitor last for years, stay the hell away from those bargain-bin crap fests. If you cannot afford a good LCD, try and find an ad agency or such looking to get rid of some of their old studio monitors - chances are you can get some cheap high-end CRT to last you until OLED comes out and ends the pathetic mediocrity that sub-$600 LCD has become.

What kind of monitor is the Samsung 226BW? TN? or...