Well I have not owned a CRT monitor for quite a few years, and I have MANY LCD monitors (about 8 last count... dont ask...) All DELL's and not one dead pixel among them. My gamng monitor is a 24" Widescreen Dell (Though I may start using my new TV as my gaming monitor, same resolution, bigger size
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The only noticable difference between CRT and LCD these days is the brightness of colours, and how dark black is displayed.
For a whle, many games did not support widescreen, but most do these days, and many are making theur games support it. However if you plan on playing old games, then you are likely to be disapointed, though most *decent* widescreen monitors can resize and not strech the image. But it's not like its that bad anyways.
You should be looking for a maximum of 8ms response time if you want to play games (I can delve into grey to grey, or grey to white reposnse times if you would like, but they make little difference in the end)
A contrast ratio of at least 1000:1
And prefereably DVI (and maybe composite/component/s-video options as they can be handy, though are not common)
Higher resolution is prefereable (you can always scale down to common resolutions with little to no distortion)
[ 03-29-2007, 03:40 AM: Message edited by: Hivetyrant ]