I Just recently Bought an Samsung 2443BW, and i can recommend it for it's price-range.
I am quite picky with picture quality myself, and came from a 19" CRT, and were skeptical to go LCD because of that.
After about a week of research and reading up on a lot of things, i deiced to take the leap and go for the 2443BW 24", and after some adjustments i am quite happy with it.
a small con is a slight horizintal non-vsync looking slight tear in some games, but it a minor thing considering.
And normal-res (xvid or otherwise decoded movies for instance) is not that nice up-scaled, but to get that right you'd probably want to
use a Normal-res tube-television with s-video or -> a smaller res display, but one can live with that since higher res films are becoming standard.
After some day of tweaking i have these settings (which at least makes _me_ love this display):
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The Actual Monitor Settings:
MagicBright -> Custom
Brightness: (Custom) -> 60
Contrast: (Custom) -> 96
Sharpness: (Custom) -> 64
MagicColor -> off
Red, Green & Blue: 50
Color Tone: Custom
Color Effect: Off (Naturally)
Gamma: Mode1
Nvidia Driver Settings (Might Differ On Ati-Catalyst and others of course):
Brightness: 40%
Digital Vibrance: 78% (this is a killer for colours, on ati you can substitute it somewhat with the Saturation setting, even if it isn't totally alike)
Contrast: 52%
Gamma: 0.97
Hue: 0 (Also Naturally)
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I am very pleased with this monitor after some tweaking, and even my pickyness is satisfied mostly
The monitor looks very nice with photos and in games, especially high res such.
16:10 is a nice tradeoff, the slight borders on 1080p movies, or other 16:9 is not a bother at all, and can be nice for subtitle-space even.
All that needs to be done then is to adjust brightness/contrast or gamma in whatever movie-player you have to not get to bright (grey) borders (i Use mplayer-smplayer gui).
I also consider 24" to be a good spot for a pc-monitor, since having a too large display is cumbersome if you do not want it meters away, since it is for day to day use most likely.
Good luck whatever you choose though,
and i hope this is of some help
