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I bought this monitor partly based on the first review by jce1975. Shipping was awesome, I ordered it at noon on tuesday and received it at 5:15pm on Thursday. Two days! This is a good looking monitor, Black with a very small techno case. Well built too. It is much more compact than the other 19 inch Envision crt that I own. It goes perfect on my desk with my black dell dimension, black keyboard and speakers. I replaced the refurbished 17 inch (E171FPb) LCD flat panel I got from dell that had lousy resolution. Set up was a breeze because I had downloaded the drivers and naviset utility from the NEC site which does not come with the monitor. The only complaint I have is that the shadow mask holes are a bit larger than my Envision and make the picture a bit more grainy than the Envision. However the colors and the color separation are spectacular and superior to the Envision. The picture fills the entire screen is very square and flat and needed almost no adjustment out of the box. The naviset utility is the best I've seen for monitor adjustment.

I had a 17" sony before this and I cant believe my eyes this monitor is fantastic! I tweaked the settings to adjust the screen size (which by the way was very easy to do) and I am just blown away by the picture Im getting. Super sharp text, deep rich color. This is one well made monitor!

I was shopping around for a 19'' monitor to replace my Dell flatscreen 17''. I stopped by in BestBuy and CircuitCity a couple of times just to check out what I should expect from a 19'' monitor, in terms of size and picture quality. And then, I read some of the reviews in amazon.com for this monitor, before finally decided to order one from amazon.

What can I say, this monitor is first rate. Color is accurate. Contrast and brightness quality is excellent. The black color suits my Dell PC and keyboard perfectly.

If you are shopping around for a 19'' CRT monitor, get this one. You won't regret your decision.

This monitor seems to be working fine for my G-4 PowerMac. It needed quite a bit of tweaking out of the box but has since performed very nicely.

Good refresh rates (I'm working at 100mhz mostly because I can and because its easier on the eyes) and nice deep colors are the strong points for this monitor (along with the price). On the down side, the aperture grill is a bit more noticeable with this monitor than I'm used to. For high-end graphic designers and hardcore gamers you may want to look into other options.

For me, it was between this monitor and another. This one came with free shipping and got here in only 3 days! I do love this monitor. It looks great on my desk, the footprint is pretty small and the screen just looks fantastic. I definitely recommend this monitor. Great buy and the price cannot be beat.