Monitors and Photoshopping

[MinorTones]

I got a great new scanner for Christmas, a Nikon Coolscan V ED. I was originally planning to use it in my office at work, but I'd rather keep it at home so I can spend long nights scanning and so on. The only problem with this strategy is my home PC is laptop.

So now I'm looking to get a monitor, something around 20" or more, but not much more. I'll hook it up through the lappy and have a nice little setup, I hope.

Any reccomendations on a monitor for around $200-300? I'm not sure if a flatscreen or CRT is the way to go here what are the ups and downs on the two? All suggestions are welcome, and thanks.

-Mitch

 

[keoj]

CRT will have more accurate colors and I would recommend that you get a color profile. The scanner will be reasonably accurate but I doubt that the monitor will be. My favorite lower cost monitors are NEC.

 

[PaulDalex]

It is interesting to note that now that the new SED technology is possibly close to arrive on the shelves, they slam Plasma and LCD and admit the gap with the far superior CRT:
http://www.hdtvexpert.com/pages_b/sedtech.html
Evidence of how sleazy marketing can be: any lie is good to have peaple spend fortunes on technologies that provide worse image quality the old ones.
Moral: Today CRT is the only solution. I can't wait to see those SED's in person...
BTW This story is deja vue so many times; something similar happened for digital vs film, autofocus vs manual focus, the too quick drop of Rangefinders by all major brand etc etc