The most expensive ($799) 22" was an HP non-wide screen monitor and the cheapest was an Acer 20" wide screen...
I fired up notepad on each and copy and pasted a bunch of garbage...and starred at the screen for a bit...I noticed that some monitors (running Windows and having tuned off ClearType rendering) some monitors had a shaper picture than others...
Constract Ratio seemed to help in making the picture more "sharp" for instance the HP was I believe 1800:1 whereas the Acer models were 600:1 and so on...
Despite the same size monitor and wide screen format, etc...the expensive monitor seemed more sharp - which is what I like when staring at a screen all day. Part of the reason I dislike Linux for development...Windows fonts appears more sharp...despite having installed them under Ubuntu Windows still looks better (not the point of this disscussion).
The point is, I found some monitors made the text blurry, especially smaller fonts...my 15" LCD on my laptop running XP home is awesome...better than a CRT. I can stare at this screen all day without wincing. I believe it's wide screen...
The larger the screen the more blurry the font became - is this a correct assumption of mine? Should I dump more money and buy a high quality? Has anyone made this observation as well or were my eyes playing tricks on me?
Cheers