BeHardware reviews 8 22" inch widescreen flatscreen LCD monitors including:
Asus PG221
Belinea 2230 S1W
Iiyama ProLite E2201W
LG L226WTQ
Nec LCD225WXM
Samsung 225UW
Samsung 226CW
ViewSonic VX2255wm
Threatened by the 24 inch, 22"s are putting up a fight. Prices are no longer continuing to drop and they remain at around the 300 Euro mark. In addition, for this price we find a growing number of models with a 2 ms response time instead of the omnipresent 5 ms of the first and second batches of screens in our previous 22 inch surveys.
In practice, the difference is definitely felt. 2 ms offers better comfort in games and movies - if we find reactivity particularly important. However, this is apparently becoming less and less the case. The proof is that CRTs are finally being relegated to a thing of the past for many users and are marked down in history as the bulkier products of a previous generation. Who will remember that tube monitors were much more reactive than 2 ms LCDs ?...
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