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In about 1 month I am getting a new monitor, but, I don't know which one. Anyone know of a good monitor no more $650, 19" that isn't shadow mask, I want aperture-grill. That is what I hope to get, thats why I am looking now. Thanks in advance.

I have a 17" Viewsonic A75f... it's a pretty nice monitor, image quality is damn good (especially with a G400 ). It uses the Mitsubishi Diamondtron tube, basically a flat (near-flat?) aperture-grille CRT. I know they have a 19" model or two that might be worth checking out.

IIRC the only manufacturers of aperture-grille tubes are Sony (Trinitron) and Mitsubishi (Diamondtron). Any flat/AG monitor you find will have one of these tubes.

dude, i just bought a 21" sony E500 flat screen for only $625 shipped from Mwave.com.... give it a shot... really really crisp monitor. you wont regret it.

thanks i'll look in to it. Besides I like Mwave.com, except they use UPS most of the time.

ViewSonic PF790! 19 inches of sweet flat luvin. That doesn't sound right does it? Anyway I bought this about 8 months and love it. Perfectly flat screen and crisp , sharp picture. Lowest price on price watch is around $321 or so. It has an aperture grille pitch of 0.25mm at center and 0.27mm at corners.

Hope this helps.

yes at the price it is difinitely worth looking at it.

I've got that same monitor (pf790) works great, love the image quality! Also my friend bill has this monitor, and hes BIG into photo editing and the likes, so image quality is definetly important and he loves the thing!

NEC FP950 19" is what I got. Great color, crisp text, nice on-screen controls. Never had a problem with it. It also has BNC connecters on the back and I hear it gives an overall clearer image at higher resolutions, so I might have to try it sometime. It goes for ~$400 (mwave/buycomp).

You can get the cheaper model, the FE950, which doesn't have the USB hub (which I don't even have anyway) and doesn't go at as high as resolution as mine (who would ever go up to 1920x1440 anyway?). It goes for about $360 on mwave.

Then you can get the model that is a tad better than mine, the FP955 which has a .24 dot pitch where as mine has a variable of .25-.27 and it goes for ~$470 (mwave again). I really like the NEC line

Of course i'm gonna put a plug in for samsung syncmaster series. very good display and excellent bang for the buck!

I suggest the Viewsonic P95f 19", a high quality .25/.27 aperture grill monitor.
It is perfectly flat and capable of far greater refresh rates than the PF790
It goes all the way up to 1920 x 1440 @75hz. 1280 x 1024 is a rock solid 105hz.
1600 x 1200 @ 92hz. It has EXCELLENT image quality and especially suited for gaming and graphics applications. As a bonus, it has BNC connectors, which allow for greater color depth and textual clarity.
It sells for $400 on ibuyer.net,

http://www.ibuyer.net/prod.html?id=568823

I agree w/ Hipnotic_Tranz %110...his moniter is AWESOME!!! only reason I don't have it is that I'm too poor but in my opinioin, the NEC fp950 is the nicest 19" out there, it can go on resolutons higher than many 21" also...