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5.0 out of 5 stars Nice contrast!, June 24, 2009

By	Bart A. Roberts "tech freak" (Tulsa, OK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I just purchased this monitor--moving from an older IBM 21 inch CRT monitor and WOW what a difference! Just reclaimed what seemed like 4 square feet of desk space and not to mention the power bill also improved by probably $50 a month! Honestly though--great picture out of the box. Maybe a bit too vivid if I was being picky but I believe most people will love the picture it produces without any adjustments. I decided to breakout my calibration disk that I used on my HDTV so I set the resolution to 1920 x 1080 and then tweaked the contrast, brightness, etc and once done it was fantastic! Blacks are very good for an LCD--but do not expect plasma levels. Very quick refresh rate--I was a bit worried that when I play games that I would see ghosting--Nope. None. When playing HD video on ITunes, it looked very good. I highly recommend the monitor to anyone. The price/value ratio is the best I could findIf you want a big monitor and a great price this is it. That being said, there are problems that I am living with.

- my monitor's PC input does not work
- contrast/brightness is high and produces a bluish glare that cannot be minimized (thankfully I use Gunnar optiks)
- menu controls are decent
- HDMI picture is serviceable but not stellar I recently upgraded from a 22" Acer monitor and was going to buy a 24" Acer but found this one for less $$. Always trusted Asus with motherboards and now I trust them with monitors!

The quality is damn nice, and the 24" is a nice size for gaming and watching movies. I found the black for the monitor could have been a little darker, but in theater mode the black is adequate enough and overall the picture quality is sharp and there are no ghost effects with games (tested on high frames per second games such as Call of Duty: WOW).