Pros: Large Size Great Pixel Density Displayport Card Reader/USB Ports CCFL IPS Panel

Cons: I've had 2 of these monitors for just about 2 or more years now. I've had to get one of them replaced about 8 times and the second one about 6 times. Sadly, this is no joke. I'm a graphic design professional and I use color management devices such as X-Rite's I1Display Pro to calibrate my printing and display environments. I have never ever received 2 monitors that matched in backlighting and it drives me insane. One monitor always has a red tint to the backlight when viewing a white background and the other is always a green tint. I've sunk an enormous amount of hours into getting acceptable results without luck. (the OSD will not fix backlight tints nor will calibration tools, it's just a defect). It also doesn't help that Asus has 2 models of this unit floating around, an older model with bright white lettering on the bezel and a new one with dark grey lettering, to my understanding that have different backlight technologies also. I've tried calling X-Rite to make sure i'm calibrating these right, I've done tons of tests on the backlights (by the way the backlighting is always heavily uneven on most of the monitor's I've received.). I've tried many different inputs to calibrate, I've tried having 2 separate GPU's to hold different color profiles, I've even tried different GPU's & motherboards entirely. There is just no way to have two of these and expect them to be close, this also makes me come to the conclusion that just using 1 might not even get you the best results either. Mishaps while RMAing units: On one instance I received someone else's returned unit, still broken and scuffed up by mistake. On another instance I received my own monitor that I sent out back by accident without even being looked at. Another instance I received a unit that had worn down 'holes' in the screen so you got purples halos behind your image (They were not physical holes but defects in the screen itself). After all those times they finally escalated me to the top repair technician for Asus USA, Eric Sablan. He tried to be really helpful and he did his best but the 2 monitors he sent me were still not a match, they were closer but still not good enough in the backlight hues to be acceptable. Not to mention one of inputs on one of those specially hand picked units occasionally displays no input but shows it's on forcing me to toggle the PSU switch on/off to get it working again. It's highly annoying. So what do you do after 14 Returns and the last pair specifically matched for you by the top tech when one of the units doesn't function right? I have no idea! Send them back for another month+ of not having them just to get another set of mismatched units? I'm so upset. In the total ~2 years I've owned these monitors I've actually only been able to use them for 1 year, they have been tied up in RMA's for an entire year in time between the 14 total RMA's (Usually 1-1.5 months each time, rarely a few weeks). If these are pro monitors why is thei

Overall Review: I keep asking them to please refund my money, I'll send them the displays, I just want my money back. But Asus is sneaky. Asus USA takes no corporate responsibility for their products, Asus USA as they claim, is ONLY a repair service. They are not provided with the means to refund US customers and they get testy with you when you ask for way to contact those who can help with that. I've really close to pushing some legal action against them, what happened to Lemon Laws? I find this business practice deceptive. Asus Rep, If you see this, Please do the right thing, help me out. I want out of this investment. I gave Asus more than a fair chance to make this right and I'm getting walked all over on this. Please help me get in touch with the right people. It even isn't just limited to this monitor, Every Asus product I've bought within the last year has been out to service, my GPU (5 Service Events, resulted in an upgrade to a newer but equal GPU), my router, and wireless receiver as well. If you're thinking about buying this, Pass on it, save the headache.

Pros: The PA246Q is a fantastic monitor that produces nearly 100% of the adobe RBG color spectrum, and it shows. I am seeing details in my work that I have been missing and it has made a world of difference in the quality of my work. It also performs surprisingly well for games too, although it may not be quite as fast as many of the monitors that are geared towards the gaming community. As someone who spends a great deal of time working with all kinds of media, I can not recommend this monitor enough...except for one thing...

Cons: When it arrives, immediately and thoroughly check for any defects, such as dead pixels. The reason being that it is way easier to exchange though the retailer than it is to RMA though ASUS. Although ASUS claims to have changed their policy regarding dead pixels, it simply has not held true. I ordered two of these and one of them arrived with a dead pixel. According to ASUS's own literature, a monitor with non-functioning pixels is automatically eligible for an Advance ship RMA. It has been 3 months since I began trying to get an Advance ship RMA for this monitor to be replaced and they have more or less blown me off every time. I've called 5 times, emailed many times, filled out RMA forms, everything else under the sun, and nothing has happened. I've even had a couple reps quote me the old warranty, to which I have had to correct them and tell them to look at their own website. A monitor sold with any dead pixels is simply defective and useless to me!

Overall Review: While it is an awesome product, beware of ASUS and their fake warranty. If you still want this product, then go for it, but trust me, you don't want to deal with ASUS and their less than caring support team. If they really valued their customers, especially the ones who spent $500 for a color accurate monitor, then there wouldn't be people like me having to write this just to warn others! I would rate this higher, but I don't want other people to suffer like I have!

Pros: Good display compering to standard LCD, good viewing angles, colors, lots of preset display modes, all types of connection options with PC and other devices.

Cons: 3 dead pixels (2 bright red and 1 grey) and they do no qualify for exchange (min 3 bright pixels or 5 all together). Too bright even with all brightness down. Very limited documentation. Expensive for 24 inch monitor and not worth it even 200 dol with dead pixels and Asus exchange policy.

Overall Review: I'm switching from 20 inch G500 old fashion tube Sonny monitor, so LCD monitors for photos, movies and gaming fills like cr..ap, with large pixels and ghosting. I did hope that this monitor will be better than monitors at work (Dell), but it's all cr..appy flat panel technology, but this one has good viewing angles. Very disappointed with dead pixels on my monitor and Asus policy.

Pros: This monitor is amazing! It's large and bright, sharp and precise. I love that is has the ability to adjust for sRGB or Adobe RGB on the monitor as I do both web and graphics design and can trust what I am seeing. I have not done any calibrating of this monitor yet with my Spyder coloromiter but even out of the box with no adjustments it's worlds better than my previous monitor after calibration. Comparing it with some printed pieces I have from the press it is very close to what was printed which is a relief, it's no fun trying to get a precise color when you can't trust monitor output. I will most likely not use many of the accessory features of the monitor but it includes many useful inputs. While I am excited for the design benefits, this would be a beautiful monitor for gaming or high end users who want a great picture. It may not be able to compete with the top end monitors for design but at this price I am extremely happy with the performance. A real bargain!

Cons: I have very little negative to say about this monitor. I guess if I wanted to be picky I am not crazy about the design aspect of the bezel/frame. The measurement notches on the edge don't bother me, I tend to work in a dark or dimly lit room and I can't even see the notches at my usual light level. The design is a little old fashioned for me though. I am used to seeing the sleek modern looking frames like from Samsung on a nice new monitor and this one looks blocky and slightly retro in comparison. Also it would be nice if there was a built in software that would allow you to plug your coloromiter directly into the monitor and calibrate that way as with the boutique monitors. At this price point though that is not a reasonable expectation, it would just have been nice. These slight flaws are more than liveable to me though and matters very little, especially since the display delivers on it's promise of quality!

Overall Review: My monitor worked great right of the box, powering up with no visible dead or bright pixels. There was a slight gradation on the right side compared to the left but after just a couple minutes of the monitor powering up that disappeared. I am a freelance graphics designer and have been using color calibrated budget monitors. While OK they simply aren't physically able to adjust to the level that is needed for accurate design, even when calibrated. It's nice to see someone is finally acknowledging the needs of a mid priced upper class monitor. I have seen other brands with nice panels in this price range, but lacking key features like the Adobe RGB coverage of this Asus. While I would love to own a monitor like an Eizo, the realities of profit margins make those out of my reach for the moment, even doing moderately well. I can do my work on this monitor with confidence and the price point is pleasantly accessible. Two big thumbs up to Asus for such a great solution!

Pros: Wanted to post a follow up to my review from March. My monitor had developed a couple of stuck pixels after a few weeks of use. Initially it fell under Asus's general LCD warranty, and I was pretty displeased that I'd have to live with stuck pixels on a $500 pro monitor. However they later amended a "zero bright dot" policy for this particular model, which I took advantage of. The fellow I spoke with at Asus's tech support dept was at first not aware of the policy change, so I had to direct him to Asus's own website to see the new policy. I sent my monitor in, took about 10 days all together. Looks like they opened it up and replaced the panel in it. New panel looks good, hopefully it had better quality control than the last one.

Cons: None further.

Overall Review: Would have been a better experience if the unit was perfect out of the box, but at least Asus stood behind their product and took care of everything without much fuss.

Pros: I bought this monitor because I had been looking for a quality screen that would not shift in brightness and colors with changing in viewing angle. I bought this monitor over the HP ZR24W and Dell U2410 because I have always had great experiences with ASUS motherboards and video cards. This monitor should easily be a 5-star monitor. There are many great things to write about it. The colors are absolutely fantastic. The viewing angles are such that one can look from above, below, and side to side and not have massive shifts in brightness and colors. Once viewing angles exceed 60 degrees there is some shift, probably due to scattering effects of the coating. I use the monitor for graphics for my employment, but also games and moves. I have it hooked up to an X-Box 360. Halo, Dead Space, Aof2, Fable I-III as well as PC Doom 3, Half Life, Neverwinter all look fantastic and with minimal ghosting. LofR, 2001, SW all look great. It was during 2001 with the dark back groun

Cons: that I noticed the the two bright green, stuck pixels at 379, 459 and 1566, 618. Unfortunate and disappointing since much "cheaper" monitors that I have bought have been perfect and remained so. I expected this $500 monitor to be perfect. Also disappointed in that my purchased is largely based on my very good experiences with ASUS products in the past. Strike two eggs for each of them.

Overall Review: Outdoor RPG games such as Fable in scenery mode are just....WOW! Movies are just....WOW! A theater mode is pre programed; however, not suitable for general use since the mode casts a blue hue to everything. Contrast ratio could be better, but that is a known limitation of IPS so I will not dock an egg for that. Blacks are quite uniform on my purchase. Contrast ratio cannot be set sRGB and Adobe RPG mode which is strange. Ergonomically probably the best monitor I have, and writing documents in Word with the screen vertical is a joy. Also, ASUS cannot not be blamed entirely for the stuck pixels since I believe the panel is made by LG Electronics. However, they do need better quality control on a product such as this. I hope that their no stuck pixel comes through.

Pros: - BRIGHT! This monitor is so bright you will have to turn down the brightness when you first set it up, by default it's set to 50 but I had to turn it down to 40 which is still extremely bright but what I prefer. Others have said to need to turn it down to 0! Now that's a bright monitor! -CCFL instead of LED Bad for the environment and may (not likely) burn out eventually but boy is it fantastic! SUPER bright whites and colors just POP! Also no bluish tint that sometimes is noticable with LED monitors. - Factory color calibrated This is absolutely the best image quality I've seen on... any display really, equal to a perfectly focused DLP projector in my opinion. You truly have to see the difference to judge. - Extremely adjustable Any direction, this monitor can do it all with a extremely sturdy stand. - 30 Bit Basically future proof monitor, 30 bit color isn't even natively supported by Windows yet. Although to my understanding you need to use a DisplayPort

Cons: - Bulky It is thick and puts out a lot of heat for a monitor but find a IPS screen for this price that isn't bulky, I don't mind the thickness at all though. - Antiglare coating Going from a monitor that had no coating at all on it to this you notice it a lot, but won't bug you too much just because you'll be so impressed with the image quality. I've gotten used to it now and in the end I think it is for the better because there is ZERO glare in sunlight. But over all a good coating, I've seen some pretty bad ones. - Ghosting Very VERY slight ghosting, barely even worth mentioning. Picture quality masks it 10 fold.

Overall Review: At night to other people it looks like you're staring into a spotlight. Asus's warranty is fantastic and free Asus VIP membership is a plus. No dead pixels either. To my knowledge there are not many P-IPS Monitors and none except this at this price range ($500-$999) 24" and 1920x1200 is in my opinion the perfect size and pixel density ratio. You will need to get a video card that has more VRAM though if you want to play games with it, high resolution sucks up VRAM like no tomorrow. Just buy it. Research into alternatives will just bring you back to here, trust me I went through that.

Pros: 1920x1280 resolution, not just 1080. Pivots to portrait orientation for very tall use of 1920 lines vertically. Good set of input ports including DisplayPort.

Cons: Annoying color covergence/separation problem resulting in red outlines, particularly irritating in portrait orientation.

Overall Review: More on the color convergence problem: With this ASUS PA246Q monitor, the red dots are clearly separate from the green and blue dots. So much so that in normal orientation, a vertical white line on a black background results in an "outline" red line just on the left edge of the white line. In portrait orientation (rotated 90 degrees right), since horizontal lines are common in the middle of text, this results in many red lines above white, or red features just agove letters. This "color convergence" problem is not present or at least not as severe on my other monitor, currently a Dell 2007FP monitor that can also pivot like this PA246Q. And, I know that this problem is not an artifact of analog signalling since this problem is present using digital connections such as HDMI and DisplayPort as I am using. Nevertheless, I really like how this monitor has a resolution of 1920x1280 as opposed to just 1920x1080 (HDTV-style).