I found this off-brand 19" LCD with 2 ms response time from bensbargains.net. Anyone have any opinions of, evaluations of, or experience with it? Or does anyone have a link to reviews of the monitor?

I'm interested in something that would do well for general purpose, but I also like to game (currently building a rig with an 8800 GT OC & Q6600 CPU).

I have a 19" CRT monitor now, but it's huge and I'd like to replace it with a smaller profile LCD. Since this is a 19" widescreen, I suspect I'm actually losing some viewing area. Is this true?

Anyway, here's the link to the monitor.

http://www.clubit.com/product_deta [...] =CA4693002

Thanks for your input!

Your 19" CRT is actually 18" viewing area but 19" LCD is true 19". You'll loss the height but you'll gain width and can put 2 text screen side by side.

The viewing height of a 19" widescreen LCD monitor will be approximately the same height of a 17" 'regular' LCD monitor. Actually, it should be a little bit more than 17" LCD monitor.

Your 19" CRT monitor is actually 18" viewable, the remaining 1" is embedded inside the monitor's case and that part does not display anything.

You will loose some viewing height, but you will gain more viewing width.

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Chimei is a LCD panel manufacturer in China and they sell their own line of LCD monitors. Similar to Samsung, but LCD panels manufactured by Samsung are superior.

Note: Not all Samsung monitors use Samsung LCD panels. They also use LCD panels made by Chimei in their line of LCD monitors.

Nope!

Viewing height of 19" CRT is around 12".
Viewing Hight of 19" Widescreen LCD TV is 10.68 using 16X9 scale and 11.855 on LCD Monitors.
Viewing Height on LCD panels are up to Manufacturers but more likely very close to the ISO Standard of what size is base with.

View AREA of 19" Widescreen LCD is 19".

I didn't say "viewing height" for a 19" CRT. Measured diagonally, a 19" monitor actually has about an 18" viewing area. Read further down the OP's post where he mentions that he has a 19" CRT monitor.

My 19" Planar PX191's (4:3 monitor) measures roughly 11.5" from the top of the viewing area to the bottom. Roughly speaking a 17" LCD monitor's viewable height would be about 1" - 1.5" less than that of a 19" non-widescreen LCD monitor. That would be roughly the same viewable height of a 19" Widescreen LCD monitor.

My apology to jaguarskx by miss interpreting his comment, and even quoted him and need not read it thoroughly.

NTSC VIDEO 17” LCD / Format 4 X 3 / Native Resolution 1024X864 / Aspect Ratio = 1.33 / VEIWING HEIGHT – 11.37

For some reason I read something like the height 19” Widescreen LCD is the same height of Widescreen 17”. I did ready it twice but my brain translating the wrong way.

Again I apologize.