Posted by Marc Martin on
URL: https://www.es-forum.com/Recommended-computer-monitors-intro-my-light-sensitivity-tp4035348p4035350.html

On my most recent computer monitor upgrade, I went through almost 10 different monitors before settling on one that was as good or better than my previous monitor.  However, the things that I was looking for are different than the things you are looking for -- for example, I have long established that lower display refresh rates are more tolerable to me than high refresh rates, so there is no way that I'd go above 60hz for that.  

For me, the things I look for are:
-- large-ish display, so I am not tempted to lean forward to see the fine details.  For my current monitor, I settled at 28" diagonal as being about "just right" from a distance / my field of view standpoint.
- VGA (analog) input, as I have never found a case where digital video cables are as tolerable to me as analog cables
- good image scaler in the monitor, as I have never found a monitor that I can tolerate when feeding it anything more than 768 x 1366 pixel resolution.  The resolution of the monitor itself does not seem to matter, rather it is the resolution I'm feeding into it that seems to matter.  So my current monitor is native 1920x1080, but I'm only feeding it 768x1366 and letting the monitor scale it.
- if it's got an LED backlight, then it needs to be flicker-free at all levels of dimming.  LED lights that flicker put out a lot of EMF/RF.
- I need to be able to calibrate it to keep the color temperature at a comfortable level.  So the settings menu needs to have levels for red/blue/green adjustment.  Then I can hardware color calibrate it to 6500K (for color accuracy), or lower if I want to reduce the amount of blue light.
- Good viewing angle is a plus, so either an IPS or VA panel instead of a TN panel.
- No need or desire for a touch screen
- No need or desire for higher display refresh rates (heck, I even tried to run one at 24 frames per second in the past)
- For some counter-intuitive reason, all of my most tolerable monitors have the power supply built into the screen, with a 3-prong AC outlet to the wall.  That is, no separate power brick.  Not a requirement, it's just that all of the best monitors I've tried in the past are this way.

With all that, my current monitor is a BenQ 28" GW2870H.

Now, that monitor is no longer sold today (for it is now a few years old), although I see that BenQ has some more recent 27" and 28" models that I'd be tempted to try if I needed to replace this one.  Or I'd see if I could find the exact same monitor used on eBay.  :-)

Marc