LG - 22" Widescreen Flat-Panel LCD Monitor

I finally had the means to upgrade my existing setup to a new Mac Pro and I wanted to get a nice monitor for it but didn't want to spend $599 on an Apple Cinema display. At the time I didn't understand LCD technology, I figured all monitors were pretty equal and you paid for brand, size, resolution, and contrast ratio. After buying the LG W2252TQ, I was taught a hard lesson, not all LCD monitors are made equal. This panel has terrible view angle, uneven backlighting, poor color, and really noticeable color banding on gradients. I did a lot of research and learned about LCD technology. There are three main types of displays, TN, PVA / MVA, S-IPS / H-IPS. The TN panels are cheap and lower quality, they are used to create monitors with super fast response times and lower prices, at the expense of view angle and color. PVA/MVA panels offer full color, better viewing angles and are the middle of the road LCD. S-IPS/H-IPS panels offer the best color, better viewing angles but at the expense of response time, although it is not so dramatic that you will notice it all of the time. I learned that most panels you get a big box retailers and just about all 19-24" LCDs use TN panels. This is why LCD price have gone down so much, which is good, but TN panels do not display true color (24-bit or 8-bit per RGB channels). They can only display 18-bit or 6-bit per RGB channel, this means that a TN display cannot achieve 16.7 million colors truly, only by dithering can it achieve some of those missing colors and they are not accurate, they are dull. This may not mean much to the average user, but if you are a graphic artist or you do photo editing, stay away from this monitor, I 'd go with an Apple Cinema display (IPS LCD Panel), which Best Buy sells at some locations or a High Color Dell display (usually PVA LCD Display). Now I have learned why some displays are so expensive even when they are smaller or the same size as another name brand next to it, they are using some of the best LCD tech out there, spending the extra cash on a PVA or S-IPS LCD is well worth it if you are into photography and design. This is a classic "you get what you paid for" scenario, except it is hard to know better when companies like LG don't inform consumers about the different technology out there. I hope this review helps people out who are designers and photographers and need color accuracy.

After my family experienced many issues with LG’s cell phones I was very reluctant to purchase anything they made, however, I was desperate. I saw this monitor read the reviews and figured I’d bite the bullet and purchase it. Setting it up wasn’t difficult (base, connections) but when it came time to install the driver this took over two hours. Why? Normally when you install new hardware, you run the setup disk and the driver(s) usually install automatically. This was not the case with this monitor. Realizing the supplied disk from LG was anything but helpful I navigated to their website figuring I could download the driver from there and all would be right the world. After searching for what seemed like forever, I finally located what I hoped was the correct driver. It was in a zip format, no big deal I thought; that is until I unzipped it. I thought only Microsoft Windows had that many files. Amongst all these folders I could find no setup file. After two hours, I finally had Windows Vista search the installation disk supplied by LG which amazingly enough found the driver in an obscure folder. As for the quality, its descent, no dead pixels and very little light bleed. Because the screen is 22” wide it’s easier on the eyes and neck. The colors don’t seem to be as rich as my previous View Sonic. Right out of the box the View Sonic required little to no adjustment for the average user. I find the color balance on this LG monitor subdued, soft in fact. I have tweaked the color balance but still can’t quite get the richness I had with the View Sonic. I’ve been using this monitor for over a week; once I made it over the driver incident I can say I am satisfied with this monitor.

Great monitor that became an even better deal last week with a $50 price cut from its current price. It's a beautiful monitor that is very big @ 1680x1050. Everything is bright and sharp with no ghosting that I can see. Have tested War3, WoW, SC, BF2, and the entire Orange Box. Very comfortable for internet browsing and, with the additional space afforded by a 22" monitor, can fit two browsers side-by-side (or one browser and a video). Having upgraded from a 17" dell MVA panel, this monitor is a monster. Additionally, this monitor features 1:1 pixel mapping for games without wide-screen resolution support. Under "fun" mode, there is an option to squeeze the screen into 4:3 aspect ratio. Definite plus. The only real gripe that I have about this monitor is the glare that the monitor reflects under low to moderate light conditions. The viewing angles aren't too great either but that's expected from a TN panel like this monitor. Also, the tilt joint is rather finicky and feels a bit flimsy. Not too big of a deal though if tilt is not a big factor in determining the monitor that you want. The base is very sturdy.

I got this as a replacement for my old CRT. I'm a pro web developer so I was looking for a decent monitor with good image quality. This is NOT that monitor. 1) Light bleeding - on a dark background I could easily see 5-10 pixels on both the top and bottom getting brighter as the image got closer to the screen edge. 2) Bad Color - And this is a big one. I looked at some of my old work through this monitor and notice bad color representation. Specifically color fades. In Photoshop I used the rainbow gradient and found really bad color banding. Even on simple fades like reflections you could easily see bands of color instead of it being nicely blended & faded. (My old-old 17" LCD at work is even better than this!) 3) Noise - This is fairly minor, but annoying. I found that if I had the brightness anywhere from 30 to 90 there was an oscillating noise coming from behind the screen. Bottom line: If you are going to use this monitor for professional use, look elsewhere. If you are just using it for games/internet/office then you probably won't notice the above problems.

This is an awesome monitor! I had a 19" LG monitor and there is a big difference between this one and my old one. First, this monitor has much better image quality than most other monitors. I originally considered buying the Samsung with the 20000:1 constrast ratio. I decided on this LG over the samsung because Samsung really is lying about their contrast ratio. They say 20000:1 dynamic contrast ratio and 1000:1 typical. This means that you will only get 20000:1 contrast SOMETIMES and 1000:1 most of the time. This LG is 10000:1 ALL the time. The 2ms response time is amazing for games. All games look awesome with this monitor. The image quality is great. The only thing lacking is the stand. The stand does not swivel, it only tilts. Ideally, the stand should do both. My old LG monitor swiveled but didn't tilt, now this one tilts but doesn't swivel. You figure it. This really isn't a big deal though. You don't buy a monitor for its stand. Overall, this monitor is a great value for the price and has great image quality.

Actually initially bought a Hanspree 22" (it was on sale), but after returning it for another of the same and spending much time on the phone with their support line (it kept kicking out of HDMI mode with my new Gateway) I returned to the store one more time and picked up the W2252TQ and a DVI-HDMI cable. It cost a bit more but is worth it! It doesn’t have any of the back light bleed that the other LCD had. It works great with the HDMI out on my PC (GW GT5876). The 22" is a great size for a desktop PC. I use digital recording software and I can see all my tracks. I used to use dual monitors but with the LG I really don't need them. Thanks to another reviewer on bestbuy.com for the recommendation. I couldn't be happier with my purchase. "Life is Good!"

I bought this after seeing it in a store display right next to the Westinghouse model I just returned. In the store, the resolution looked just as good as the Westinghouse, but now that I have it at home it really just doesn't add up. I notice that I have to tilt the screen really far back to see smaller words clearly and when viewing my pics, they look horrible. My kids faces are all red and yellow when viewing with this monitor and besides web surfing, that's pretty much all I use my computer for. Another downside is that I was unable to view the user's guide so that I could possibly make adjustments. I received a message stating that the adobe file is neither viewable nor repairable, didn't have any problems with the other stuff provided on the included disk though. Overall, I'm not happy with this monitor but probably wouldn't have been so bothered by it if it was about $100 cheaper, then I would feel like I got what I paid for.

I was not expecting a TN panel to be as color faithful as a VA panel but I have been very disappointed with color fidelity and color shift in this monitor. The LG f Engine can't seem to come close. Some other calibrators did a somewhat better job as did the settings on my graphics card, but I would say things are just at about the 98% point. I have not been able to achieve a really true white point and gray tilts towards red, or green or blue depending on the slider adjustments. If editing photos with one of the better graphics programs is your thing, I really couldn't in good faith recommend this monitor, but in all honesty many of the faults of this panel are probably inherent to most TF/TFT panels. For gamers and movie buffs this monitor will likely do a fine job, but this one might be going back to BB. I have a few days yet to decide so I thank BB for its 30 day no restocking fee return policy.