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yeah, they look really nice.  I wish they made a 30" model though!  When using photoshop or video editing there gets to be a lot of tool bars and not much screen real estate is left for actual editing.

Thats why I use 2 monitors , my old Samsung is good enough to have my tools on it

I'm not really so sure about these super high contrast numbers either.

Eizo, which is supposedly the gold standard for graphics monitors typically has around an 800-850:1 ratio.
I tend to believe that is sufficient for graphics editing. See specs of Eizo CG241W below:

With 12-bit hardware calibration and a 6 ms response time, the CG241W displays both still and moving images equally well, making it ideal for a wide range of high-end graphics work including pre-press, digital photography, video editing, and post production.

    * 1920 x 1200 native resolution
    * 850:1 contrast ratio
    * 300 cd/m2 brightness
    * 178 viewing angles
    * Dual DVI-I inputs

I know what u mean but I assure you that there is a quite big difference. I goes from a 500:1 to a 3000:1 a year ago or something and you see noise like nowhere before. Obviously the overall quality is as much important such as image sharpness or even the type of glass used to protect the LCD screen. Those are not calculated

I want post something like this maybe a year ago but I was to lazy for that.
Before one on maybe one and half year ago my 22" Lacie Electron blue III loosed its white point so I buy DELL2407WFPHC the best monitor at that time near the Apples best display. First thing is that it is much more sharpener than any CRT but you must looking straight at 90 angle at image to see right color. After few weeks finally I adopted for that kind of SHT.
Every new image which is processed from that LCD is too too soft and unsharpened when you published this in paper issue, and if you want to have sharpen image in print issue you must oversharpening it, but if you want it for stock then LCD is better because fckin unvisible imaginary noise. OK I know that is for blog shiting or other web portals and publications but who buy 6 or 24 Mpix for web issue. If they even buy that big resolution which is oversharpened and noisy when they downsize it all of this (imaginary) problems are gone.
I really dont know who is the first creappy person who "discovered" that imaginary nonsense of noise.
When I looked on old images on paper issues on new LCD and if I post them to microstocks I think they will make lobotomy on me or ban me forever.
OK bla bla new time new creeps, just because some creature who buy first LCD with high contrast and see that is crap for new cheaper LCD users form his POW they are in forced all of us to make blurry and un noise images because of they new degenerated optics.
As I see in they LCD development they are increasing contrast ratio, for what?
For reviewers To see more and more artifacts because if some lazy creature wants to see image on his creapy cheap PC laptop screen while he is opposite sun?!?
I just cant imagine what will bee in the next years when they made some kind of electronic paper with eg. hexagonal or other matrics and all our work will be looked same to them like I looking my old images from printed issues on my LCD???
For me in few years it looks that we will came to be old snapers like OldHippie?

Always is about the quality of the panels used. Often the manufacturers will not describe what sort of panels they use. Models which are good for TV or gaming may not be best for photography.

TFT Central is a good source of info about different models.

Wikipedia page here about different TFT panel technologies.