Picking a monitor is not an easy process. Add to this, monitor prices have held up to competitive-market pressures better than other system elements.
Wisdom suggests getting a good display.
Good monitors sported a noticeably finer dot-pitch, with a correspondingly sharper image, than cheap monitors. Companies hitherto associated with lower-tier products now offer top quality with fancy features and aggressive pricing. These are great deals for multimedia computing in the small office or home. They are also rarely larger than 15 inches diagonally. NEC and Sony make the monitors against which others are measured.