hello and sorry for breaking this discussion. I am new here

I have been having some problem with my LCD lately and i was hoping the masters here can really help me out.

I have a 2 year old Viewsonic LCD. its awesome but lately i notice that the picture started to flicker. then earlier this morning the whole screen lost half of its picture

my question to the sifus here

1) should i send it for repair or just chuck it?
2) seems all of you guys love DEll here but i really like ACER Crystalbright LCDs. are they any good.

sorry again for barging in but i need expert opinions from the senpais here. thanks for reading.