Reply 20 of 40, by ripa
I can personally recommend Nokia 446 PRO 19". I'll also agree with Malvineous. Find a monitor with HSYNC capability of more than 100 kHz. The best ones support more than 120 kHz. Also, the video bandwidth figure is important for image quality. Over 200 MHz is pretty good. Too low bandwidth causes high resolutions / high refresh rates to become blurry.
For example, 1280x960 @ 100 Hz is convenient for a 19" monitor, and that requires ~102 kHz HSYNC and ~180 MHz bandwidth with standard video timings.
Another tip. Avoid Sonys. They have some design flaw that causes horizontal ghosting (sometimes temporarily), which is extremely distracting. I had two different Sony monitors back in the day and they both started doing it. I couldn't find an example picture of the ghosting artifact for the moment.