Stunningly bright images and crystal clarity mark this offering from Hanns-G. The HW-191DPB is a 19” beauty framed in elegant black which looks good no matter where you put it. The maximum resolution of 1400x900 ensures crisp images, and the 5ms response time ensures there’re no ghosts to haunt your games.

Control is right at hand: the on-screen display (OSD) menu system is straightforward and easy to navigate, providing access to critical settings, as well as options to change color-temperature, clock, phase, and speaker-volume settings. Three of the function buttons are hotkeys for raising and lowering the volume and invoking the auto-adjust function without having to enter the OSD system.

Stingy with power (55 watts), and generous with brightness (300 candelas) and contrast (700:1), this is a fine monitor for desk or wall mount, and suitable for DVI or VGA (but we like DVI).