I have a NEC LCD1715 that I bought about 6 months ago. I'd never go back to CRTs. This is very crisp and has good saturation. As to not being good for moving pictures, I think you may want to check into that again. I have a DVD drive and watch movies on this monitor all the time. It's easily as good if not better then my color TV. I have seen instances where clips in menus get a bit slow but in movie mode I've never had any problems with the refresh.