Acer AL1916C

So what do I mean by "tried and tested"? Well we have been using these at work for the last 18 months and have approximately 150 in the office, so I have a fair bit of experience with this model. I won't go too much into the technical specs as you can get them all from the tabbed marked Technical Details funnily enough, but a few of the major points are: Max resolution = 1280x1024. You wouldn't want anything less on a 19" screen Image Brightness = 300cd/m2. This is so so, but for your general day to day use it's fine - if you are really finicky about picture quality and brightness you probably would be looking to spend more ...  Read the complete review

The Acer AL1916 series come in both black and silver (mine is silver), its a 19 inch flatscreen (TFT) monitor and it is very light and durable. It is very easy to install with standard vga socket and even easier to set up as it has a great button marked AUTO which does pretty much everything for you. This has 4 settings which are Auto (does everything), Text, Standard,Graphics & Movie. I haven't tried the other settings so I can't say much about them. If you do fancy having a fiddle with your screen settings manually its also got a nice clearly marked MENU button which allows you to change Contrast, Brightness, Focus, Clock (refresh rate I assume), ...  Read the complete review