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.

It wil proberly take a while to find one of that kind monitor, but i hope i can find one over here.

@ripa: I found as my VGA cable aged it would introduce ghosting at very high resolutions. Even a VGA to 5x BNC one started doing it after a few years, but I could wiggle it a bit to remove the ghosting for a while - I suspect it was rather cheaply made. Could it have been the cable rather than the Sony monitors at fault in your case?

I tested several cables and different monitors and the common factor was always the Sony monitor(s). If I screwed the cable in tight and then wiggled the connector at the monitor end, the ghosting would sometimes go away for a while (and then return). I'm thinking the input board wasn't designed well and that heat or dust would affect some electrical parameters. This is of course extremely anecdotal and could be just bad luck, but I remember seeing the same problem with Sony monitors at other places like classrooms. Anyway, here's a picture of how severe the ghosting was:

Im happy with my Samsung SyncMaster 959NF 19" Trinton.

It supports 1920*1440 at 73 Hz, 1600*1200 at 87 Hz, 1280*1024 at 101 Hz and 1024*768 at 132 Hz. 800*600 (and lower) is supported at 160 Hz.

That is some bad ghosting there, proberly need to call the ghost busters for it.

Somebody from finland is offering me a sony model, aint finland in the same voltage level as denmark?'
im just being very carefull with all this voltage regulation situation, some of you proberly understand that.

Always look on the back to check, just in case the person from Finland wants to get rid of it because it came from the US 😉 Most monitors are universal though, capable of working from 90 to 240V, but always check on the back to be sure.

Also... transformers aren't that hard to come by. Maybe because Brazil is hectic about voltage (different regions of the contry use different voltages), but transformers are very easy to come by here.

the voltages in Denmark and Finland are 230v just like the rest of Europe.

So how much are you paying for shipping 😉

It really depends on the person shipping me it 😜

Darkman wrote:

the voltages in Denmark and Finland are 230v just like the rest of Europe.

The U.K is 240v

Was my understanding that the difference between European 220 / 230 / 240V grids is just in rating. They're essentially the same.

Edit: also just about any monitor made since the early '90s is gonna be built to run on 100V-240V. Every VGA multisync I've ever seen is.

Norway, Sweden and Finland are not synchronous with the rest of Europe, nor is the UK. Moldova, the Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic states are synchronous with Russia. Most of the rest of Europe is synchronous.

Davros wrote:

Darkman wrote:

the voltages in Denmark and Finland are 230v just like the rest of Europe.

The U.K is 240v

actually the UK is 230v, its Australia that has a 240v rating.

Although in this case there is no difference , it will work just fine.

Darkman wrote:

Although in this case there is no difference , it will work just fine.

There is a difference of course, but 5% tolerance is standard. 240V and 230V should be compatible for any device.

So i can just hook it straight up without no converters?

Double check the back panel before you plug it in. We're extrapolating on specs, and weird things happen.

Don't know why would you want to use 16:9 resolutions on 4:3 monitor. Otherwise any "high" end monitor should work with 1920x1080.