19" Samsung Wide Screen Monitor

I just got an absolute deal!I've been thinking bout gettin a new desktop for a while now, but whilst i haven't got the internet at home (tiscali experience - dont ask) it doesn't seem worth buying. Knowing that by the time i get it hooked up in 4/5 months i could've bought a much better machine.

So i'm browsing Ebuyer dreaming of owning a faster machine when i convinced myself that i could just buy the monitor now, knowing that they're not goin to drop much in price and then in the summer when i buy a new desktop i'll already have the monitor.

That's when i came across this beauty. A Samsung 19" widescreen monitor for £150!

I know this is a bit shallow but for me it's the part of the computer that sits on top of the desk in full view and i have to stare at it all the time, so it's important that it's not only technically good, but that it looks awesome too.

This monitor has a gloss black finish (screen is more matt being non-reflective) with a small silver strip along the bottom. It supports resolution 1440x900 px and get this it has a response time of 2ms, yep 2. It also has a contrast ratio of 2000:1.

These two things combined mean that you can have a superbright, colourful image, without suffering blurring. It's such a great experience i wana watch dvd's on this as apose to my 32" HDTV with a 8ms response (suffers from ever so slight ghosting).

The way it works is there's 5 or so buttons along the bottom of the screen to navigate the OSD (on screen display), but thankfully one of these has been alocated to flicking through preset brightness settings. So if your reading stuff on the internet it dulls the screen to save the eye-strain and there's settings for Gaming, Movies, Sport, UltraBright.

You can also manually adjust all these settings and it stores it as a custom profile.

Connectivity: It has one analogue VGA socket and one digital DVI-D socket, for which i've ordered an adapter for a couple of quid that turns DVI into HDMI so i can plug my xbox in! just remember DVI-D doesn't carry audio so you'll have to work out how your going to listen to your xbox (the xbox elite comes with an analoge/digital out adapter.)

The best deal i found was Tesco Direct who have it for £150, and they sent me a £50 voucher for renewing my car insurance with them ideal!