Every photo in this thread looks like a really bad case of backlight bleed. It makes me wonder if all these monitors really are that bad or if it's a case of incorrect photography technique / camera settings. Do the photos match what you're seeing?
That's not always the case. My monitor has a wider gamut than sRGB in green shades only, and it enables the display of green colours that are much closer to pure green than what sRGB is capable of. Yes it is technically distorted, but it makes games and video content look subjectively much...
Crystal LED vs Plasma high end 3840x2160 TVs might be an interesting format war in a few years. I still think it's going to be too expensive for monitors though.
So Samsung cheaped out instead of using their own, superior panel technology. That's not a good sign...
24" 1920x1200 8-bit cPVA might be an interesting product...
The PA241W has 100% sRGB coverage whereas the P241W only has 96.7%. Whether that's worth an extra $250 will depend on what the monitor is used for.
Why is that odd? It doesn't surprise me at all that NEC wouldn't focus on lowering input lag with a monitor that is designed for professional...
Why do you think you have to choose?
Dell 2408WFP = True 8-bit colour with over 1100:1 static contrast ratio
Newer monitors aren't necessarily better...
Sorry for the necro, but I'd just like to point out that 10-bit colour doesn't do much if your source content isn't also 10-bit.
ps. Bluray movies are 8-bit.