Best 20 inch widescreen lcd monitor for video/movies?

by inju

I was looking for some advice on the title of my question. I’ve used 17 and 19 inch widescreen lcd’s from samsung before and really like them. but searching in ebay for the right model is becoming very very tedious especially with so many options and choices! i mean samsung itself has wayyy too many models for every screen size!
my requirements(in order of preference):
should be excellent for watching movies.
should look nice.
weight doesn’t matter.
if it has extra ports (USB/Memory card reader) thats good, but its ok if it has nothing extra, but the unit itself is awesome.

My budget is around 135-140 pounds shipped.
Brands preferred: Asus, Samsung, LG, HP, Acer, Viewsonic, Dell.

Could someone please help me out here? hope im not being too unreasonable. If you think it may be better to get a 21 inch or anything else, please do say so.

thanks in advance

i have a 22 HP monitor and its really nice, it has a “movie” mode in options (other options are also text, games, and others). it also has 2 usb ports. and i got it for $ 160 on ebay.

the model is HP w2207

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I have a fairly old Dell 15″ and a new Samsung 19″ currently connected to my computer. They both work fine together, as my Nvidia 6600 GT has dual output. Now, I want to add my 40″ Haier TV (which has a VGA port) as a third screen.

Normally, I wouldn’t think this possible with one video card, but I have a splitter that converts my DVI port on my PC into a DVI and VGA port. With 2 VGA ports and one DVI port (this is after using the splitter, of course) is it possible to connect three monitors to one video card?

I’ve already tried simply plugging in and restarting the computer, but that doesn’t seem to work. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

It *seems* as if it should work. Both screens hooked up to the splitter should (will) show the same thing, of course.

The problem may be that most monitors today are plug-and-play. *That* means that your video board can detect what type of monitor is plugged into it. With two monitors plugged into one video socket, Windows probably gets pretty confused.

Another possibility is that you cannot connect a DVI *and* vga to the same video card connector at the same time. I know DVI analog is *compatible* with DB-15, but maybe DVI-analog uses lines in the graphics card that DB-15 does not and your graphics card is getting confused.

Perhaps you can force the issue by removing device drivers for those two “united” monitors and installing the “default monitor” driver instead. You should be able to get standard resolutions and maybe keep the OS from trying to find out what type of monitor is connected. This should solve the Plug-n-Play problem, but not the 2nd problem (if it is one).

Of course, you can always get another nVidia board – now you can support 4 monitors with 2 boards, and 7300LEs are *cheap*. Then you can get a different view on every screen instead of just two.

I hope this helps.

Jim

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