Pros: Excellent picture quality, great colors, and very good brightness without blinding the user. Games look AWESOME on this monitor. I bought this monitor for my sister, but I decided to try it on my own gaming system which has a 19" flat-screen CRT (connected with a DVI-to-VGA adapter). I connected this monitor using DVI, and enabled nVidia DualView with this monitor and my CRT. I would constantly switch between the two monitors to compare image quality for both games and movies. As far as games are concerned, the Samsung blew my current monitor out of the water (to be fair, my CRT is more than a few years old and is from a no-name brand, although it still has very good image quality). I could see much more detail due to brightness and superior image quality (and not just because of the higher res). Also good for web browsing and word processing. 22" widescreen is a logical step up for gamers used to 19" CRTs that display up to 1600x1200 res. I always felt 19" widescreens were too small.

Cons: Image quality when viewing video is very poor, but that is to be expected from a TN panel. You can definitely get used to it, but if you are coming from a CRT then you will be disappointed with video quality on this monitor. Very fast moving video in particular suffers - artifacts form and the pixels can't keep up with the color change, even with the overdrive function. This was not a problem when gaming. Spatial uniformity of brightness is not consistent, and the panel is brightest at the very bottom-center and especially the very top-center of the screen. You won't really notice this unless those areas of the screen are dark or black, and in those cases it is VERY noticeable. I have the drivers installed, but even so the max refresh rate at the native resolution of 1680x1050 is only 60 Hz. I would really like it to be at least 75 Hz, but no big deal. Other user reviews were right - the stand for this monitor is horrible, and the slightest movements cause it to shake distractingly.

Overall Review: I was so impressed by this monitor that I decided to get one for myself. I will game on this monitor while still watching video on my CRT. This monitor will hold me over nicely until monitors catch up with HDTVs and offer 120 Hz SPVA panels next year. After testing it on my system, I didn't want to give it back to my sister! At 1680x1050, there is a lot real estate on the screen. Newegg shipped it out fast and it was delivered quickly, and there were no dead pixels whatsoever. Aside from the wobbly stand, the poor video quality, the 60 Hz refresh rate at native res, and the slightly distracting brightness at the very top and bottom of the screen, I don't see how anyone could be disappointed at all with this monitor. Don't let those issues stop you from buying this monitor. Those are minor quibbles and this monitor is EXCELLENT. For the gamers out there who want a good gaming monitor without breaking the bank, this widescreen 22" Samsung 2232BW+ does the job extremely well.