Monitor advice

I’m converting from mac to pc for my editing system. There are a lot of thoughts on bang for the buck systems but non of them discusses what monitors that provides adequate performance.
What monitors would you recommend for video editing and witch give you the best bang for the buck? What display-technologies to look for and not?

Calibration is what Colorimeters are for and yes you can absolutely monitor accurately with computer monitors calibrated via a Colorimeter and ICC profiles. That is what these were standardized and designed for. Example of Colorimeter below. The Spyder series is another
http://www.xritephoto.com/ph_product_overview.aspx?id=1454&catid=109&action=overview
Windows 7 supports ICC profiles which override the video card settings for color output. The application settings should follow the ICC Profile settings if you are using standard ICC Profiles. ICC standardization was done to sync multiple devices to 1 color profile standard for symmetry.
With Proper calibration you know exactly what you are seeing and how it will look in the RGB color world.
The Blue ray players now allow you to output RGB instead of YUV. You may not have a BDR encoding now to RGB but the player will covert the signal. So yes the RGB output is there and likely will change encoding options in the future. Hence why I stated it is in flux.
Eric
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