Over literally a 1000 hours of testing, the monitor proved itself as a workhorse and a comfortable viewing companion through bright days and dark nights of pounding away at the keyboard for hours on end. The brightness and contrast, even though they were not the brightest I have dealt with before, were spot on for extended use. As said previously, the brighter monitors I have reviewed in the past had to have their settings dumbed down to make a more comfortable viewing experience. With this monitor, it was perfect right out of the box. In fact, most won't have to touch a thing, just plug and play. The stock settings were perfect.

As for the DVD/Blu-ray viewing, with a 24 inch screen, a Blu-ray player is not needed in order to enjoy a HD picture on this monitor when compared to a up-converting or a standard DVD player. In fact, I saw little difference at all. But either way was really enjoyable. With a response rate of 5ms, ghosting was nonexistent.

Gaming on this monitor is fine as long as you have the hardware to push out a 1920x1200 gaming experience at a decent framerate. But if you have the videocard and system to do so, this monitor won't let you down. Gaming is great with no ghosting witnessed at all. Just make sure you use the native 1920x1200 resolution. If you don't want or can't utilize the higher resolutions, I would drop down to a T220 so you can use the 1680x1050 resolution instead