Acer 24" WUXGA LCD Monitor with HDCP Support 2ms(GTG) D-Sub, DVI P243WAid

Pros: Well it is a very nice (light weight) monitor. I have bought the HP24 inch with the same type of specs and I see this one is better in some ways but worst in others. THe HP has terrible side to side viewing angles, this one is 100% better. Vertical viewing is about the same, not as good as I have seen on some 170 and 176 monitors. Overall if your looking for a big 24" glossy finish screen you really can't go wrong here. THe warranty is 3yrs compaired to the 1yr you get with HP!

Cons: This monitor out of the box needs some tweaking to make it look good. At first when I enabled the ACM I hated it but now I know why. You loose your Brightness controls when you enable it. LOWER it down first then enable it. After that you can fine tune it with the contrast levels. At first is makes everything so contrast that it looks like a first gen LCD monitor. I have mine set to 31 on Contrast and 30 on Brightness then I went into the color managament and set the red blue green up. If you do photo and video work a spider calibrator is a MUST.

Overall Review: Good for the price and with that said I think it is better than my 560.00 HP monitor. . .

Pros: HDMI and DVI inputs, nice glossy black exterior, 3000:1 contrast ratio. No dead pixels (yay).

Cons: Glossy screen is not something to have unless youre living in a cave with no other light source. RESPONSE TIME IS ODD. When viewing any movie or playing a game and the image pans, or the background of an entire scene moves, there is a .5ms glitching, or lag between frames (and yes, vsync is on), causing a stuttering effect, usually happening when more than half the pixels on the screen are changing quickly, making FPS gaming impossible. Best way to explain it is trying to aim and shoot a gun while at the late stages of parkinsons disease. Severe light bleed from left side, and some bleeding at the top. [As always, no height adjustment either...]

Overall Review: At first I thought it was either my video card, or my PSU that was the cause of this stuttering. Upon trying this monitor out on 5 different computers, I found the monitor itself was to blame. It may be a defect, but at least 8 other people have confirmed what I am seeing, so it isnt just my eyes. Acer has told me they have had a few calls about this issue. Hopefully Newegg will not give me a hassle since it does not have any dead pixels. For office use or browsing the internet, this thing is fine, anything besides that and this monitor in my opinion fails at delivering what I paid for.