LG W2252TQ

I purchased this TFT monitor in December 2008 as an upgrade from a 19" widescreen. My reason for buying this monitor at the time, it is made by LG. While the range of LCD televisions and plasmas from LG may not quite up to scratch, having used many LG monitors, they are reliable. As well as VGA an essential DVI input is included for a superior image. Most of the cheap monitors available tend to be VGA only. Discussing the performance of the monitor itself, I'm not using it for any serious photo editing so can't assess the accuracy of the colours, in any case it is unlikely to reproduce real life colours accurately, however the images displayed by this ...  Read the complete review

I'm a firm believer that for any serious graphics work, 1680 x 1050 is the minimum resolution that one can get away with. With that in mind, how does the budget LG stack up against more esoteric models? Firstly, I feel that 22" is really stretching the boundaries of what a 1680 x 1050 display can get away with - I prefer to see such resolutions confined to a 20" workspace - maximum! Positioned next to an ageing Apple Cinema Display, it is immediately apparent that the budget end of the LG range is not likely to be up to the task of any serious design work - the colour definition simply isn't there, and the cathode bleed at the vertical ...  Read the complete review

For £189 this is a LOT of a monitor, 22" actual 700:1 contrast ratio and the albeit useless ability to scale down the size to about a 19" 4:3 monitor. BUT this monitor has a massive trick up its sleeve, its "digital fine contrast" is a neat little trick which dims and brightens the monitors backlight to essentially add a new dimention in colour ratio. Its bright and beats all of its Hanns-G counterparts of the same price, it IS missing an HDMI input, but to be fair without speakers HDMI doesn't really offer much of an increase over DVI (if any) and this monitor unlike a lot of products in this stingy market comes with VGA and DVI cables ...  Read the complete review