Eizo make very good, "Professional" monitors, (they come with glare hoods and all manner of other gadgets) they consistently come top in "image quality" polls, where they use photometry aparatus to measure the actual screen output, to a reference signal. I've got a Sun Premium 21" (a badged Sony "flatron") which is very nice. But it'll do 1600x1200 max, newer stuff will upwards of 2048x1600 Personally I've never seen an LCD that's as good as a CRT, (and I've used the Sun 18" and the SGI 21" models) they're good, but only at one resolution, then there is the matter of dead pixels... At 21" you're not really going to get a "bad" monitor. I bought a "cheap" 38" TV, and it has far more gadgets than I have a use for. The same is true of CRT's, even the cheapest 21" will blow away anything less than a 19" model. The best thing to do if you're serious is take a laptop with you, that way you can compare like for like, what it looks like at home, on the LCD and on the CRT. You can also take your own reference images. If you are buying a 21" model they'll humour you... :) The only real problem with large monitors is just that, they're huge, mine barely fits on the table, the computer, keyboard and mouse hang off the edges... For playing games however, there realy is nothing like it! :P later jb