hmm in my oppinion.. dunno bout the price? w2408h also max reso 1920x1200 at 60hz. other info u also can find in that website

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/sg/en/ho/WF...r〈=en&cc=sg <-- for w2408h

im an owner of w2408h

ok i will tell u why it is worth the rm400 more

1st w2408h is a FULL.HD lcd monitor, full man!! with only rm400 diff
2nd the color gamut of this lcd is 92% or more compare to 22" only 75% i believe
3rd hdmi compatible.. does 22" come with hdmi??
4th this monitor has 1:1 pixel mapping which is very important to gaming. without this your games will be 'stretched' to wide wide. with 1:1 your game look just like normal but with larger heroes, larger maps, larger mobs etc...
5th i believe its already cheaper than the price previously??
6th the stand of this monitor is very very tough not normal thin thin plastics and theres a slot at the back for u to 'rest/keep' your wires so that wont look ugly. also u can dock your keyboard on top of the stand
7th u can mount your monitor onto the wall
8th largeeeeee enough very very good for watching movies/dramas
9th your toolbar can line up more files that u open
10th u will be in love with it and not thinking of changing another monitor for years

Once you have a 24" and above (assuming 1920x1200 res onwards), anything less than 720p will be blocky when viewed full screen, no matter the format. It's one of things you have to live with. So would it be better to have a lower res screen so that your SD experience is better ? Nope.

It's like ppl buying a 40" HDTV and suddenly realizing Astro looks worse now compared to their previous SDTV.

I don't get what you are trying to say. With all due respect, it seems that you are just stating the facts without opinion or something.

For standard HDTV, we sit quite far from it so SD content would not look awful, but we are talking about monitors which most of us are sitting maybe around 1 - 1.5 m from, and the blocks certainly look bigger than as compared to a HDTV.

Given that : if most contents in your library are 1080p files, certainly there's no issues there with 1920x1200 being the best choice.

But if most contents are SD contents, we should still go for highres screen + >=24", is that what you say, even if you'll be seeing blocky images all the time? What I'm thinking is, with mostly SD content, maybe it's better to get a 22" with 1680 x 1050 or a HDTV with 1366x768 res, which would make the images look better, which you disagreed. Why is that?

how much it costs??

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Added on September 25, 2008, 9:11 pmbetul..

Hmm, no offence taken, as you said I merely pointed out the facts of watching SD content on HD screens. (i.e it will appear blocky if stretched to full screen).

If you bought a Full HD display in the 1st place, it's because you want to enjoy Full HD material correct ? The downside of this though, is you will find your SD content looking blocky. So what would you do now ? enjoy Full HD (whenever you can, games, videos etc) and tolerate blocky SD video, or return the HDTV for a lower res monitor, so that the SD content displays better ? With a 24" LCD, you can afford to sit further than 1.5m.

"Most contents are SD" would be valid a few years ago, but now, even the TV shows floating for free are encoded in 720p (or higher). The only deciding factor to me would be the price of the display itself. Not the content.

1st you said it's expensive, then you asked how much it cost?     

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Added on September 26, 2008, 12:52 am

Yeah, but hey, we are running on screamyx, so, gotta prioritize in the files that you want SD and the files you want to be in HD.

Nowadays, I mostly obtain HD content, but there's still anime that comes in SD, and the fact remains, HD movies are slow in their release, which would make the experience...less enjoyable, or "delayed"

Walau I salute anyone who has the patience to wait for HD content on Screamyx. 1 HD movie (7GB) takes daysss..

heard of bluray? and the release of bluray movies is the same as dvd release date

I think he meant it takes days...if not months to download the HD content via Streamyx...1Mbit is simply not HD ready.

And i think BluRay is 25GB right? Some can go up to 50G and I heard Pirates of the Carribean is > 75GB????

btw, can anyone tell me....those ahem ahem BlueRay hor...are they similar in quality to original BlueRay or just some cinema version crap that's worst than VCD??

heard of bluray? and the release of bluray movies is the same as dvd release date

Walau I salute anyone who has the patience to wait for HD content on Screamyx. 1 HD movie (7GB) takes daysss..

I think he meant it takes days...if not months to download the HD content via Streamyx...1Mbit is simply not HD ready.

BD25 = 25GB

BD50 = 50GB

There's no more than 50GB BD movie as at today.

And there's no ahem Blu-ray, those are actually DVD9.

Hmm, no offence taken, as you said I merely pointed out the facts of watching SD content on HD screens. (i.e it will appear blocky if stretched to full screen).

If you bought a Full HD display in the 1st place, it's because you want to enjoy Full HD material correct ? The downside of this though, is you will find your SD content looking blocky. So what would you do now ? enjoy Full HD (whenever you can, games, videos etc) and tolerate blocky SD video, or return the HDTV for a lower res monitor, so that the SD content displays better ? With a 24" LCD, you can afford to sit further than 1.5m.

"Most contents are SD" would be valid a few years ago, but now, even the TV shows floating for free are encoded in 720p (or higher). The only deciding factor to me would be the price of the display itself. Not the content.

Well, i personally have that feeling during my switchover from 17" CRT to 22" LCD. Movies content (SD) that looked so clean and sharp was totally blocky when its on the 22". I am kinda picky when it comes to video quality as i always believe in watching something at a good quality or not watch at all, and having blocky graphics does turn me down. And sitting further away from the 22" just for the sake of not noticing the blocky graphics cause it to be tiny and thus, demolish my intention of watching movies at a bigger view. I resort to laptop for movie watching for now. This is all personal preference though. Heck, gaming experience become better though

I never noe DVD9 is ahem blue ray 

So guys if we use 24" LCD monitro with HDMI cant watch movies with .rmvb?Not clear at all?