LG Monitor for video... or what else?

I'm interested to buy the LG L246WP 24" monitor, to use with my Kona 3 HDsdi, and the HDlink to DVI converter.
Has anyone used this monitor for critical HD monitoring?
Does anyone else have another suggestion that works well for critial LCD flat panel that won't break me?
-Eric
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Concur with Z. as I usually do.
The words "critical" and "computer monitor" aren't ones that I might use in the same sentence.
For people who are just coming to this arena... this is an old debate, and a lot of water under the bridge, in fact, its water down the river, out to sea, evaporated, condensed as rainfall, run down the river again, and so on, several times.
Computer monitors are great for presenting text. Thats about it. They are way way way too bright, way way way too contrasty... they don't have anything to do with broadcast presentation at all.
Anything else is manufacturer bs designed to fleece you of your money. I don't even care about the signal processing LUT/signal-massaging boxes. You are, in effect, screwing up your good signal so that it will look roughly similar on the wrong monitor to what a clean send-through would look like on the right monitor.
Critical grading on a monitor that "looks good" is not the aim here. The monitor must speak the unvarnished truth, without intervention. It is up to you to make it "look good", and then it will BE good.
Joe

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