Having owned a Sony HDM95P X-Black, I was looking for a larger and as good a monitor as the Sony. Did lots of research and found the Samsung T220. The Samsung lacks the glossy screen of the Sony, but more than matches it for colour reproduction. Fantastic refresh rate and contrast ratio, although the latter figure is purely academic unless you intend to use it for games or DVD's. The bundled software is somewhat useless. However, do download the Vista driver from Samsung's website, as Microsoft's generic drivers are rather basic if functional. A good graphics card is a must to get the best out of this monitor. Set up is simple enough, although the Dynamic Contrast does make the screen overly bright. The Samsung lacks the auto dimmer of the Sony and I found this to be a nuisance initially. Buyer beware, because the 20,000 to 1 contrast ratio is only effective in certain modes, and can be slow to react. Best to select Magicolour then adjust settings manually. Once set up, the colour rendition is just great, although again, the Sony set up had sensors that adjusted to external light sources and corrected accordingly. The design is pretty and the red LED strip is very subtle and gives the Samsung a great presence of beauty on the desktop. Connections are well catered for. No wall mount facility on this range of monitors. Also the base allows the monitor to wobble a bit. The Sony was priced at a whopping £499 when new in 2004, and in terms of colour and ease of use, there wasn't much that could touch it. Well, now there is. Just such a shame that Samsung haven't pulled out all the stops and included auto dimming and glazed the LCD screen. One excellent feature however is the ability to use printer profiles on screen. So if you own the Epson R1800, R2400 series, you can download the ICC profiles and use them as set up profiles. In effect, the colours you see are exactly what will be printed. As stated, shop around for prices. I got mine from Comet for £199.00. Summary: For games and DVD's, fantastic. For editing photo's or video, fantastic. For doing spreadsheets, documents, etc, far too bright. Overall, a great product well worthy of being on your short list.