I work with dual 19inch Philips monitors. I brought them from pantip a few months ago they only cost me 8950 baht each. I work as a 3d Artist/Animator and there fine for my work.

The only thing I would reconmend doing is if you buy the screen from a shop ask them to take it out of the box and do a pixel check. Make sure your check it well coz if you dont see any dead pixels and they see some , they wont tell you. I went to one shop paid for the monitor and was watching the guy test it, i could clearly see there was a dead pixel, he saw it as he tried to wipe it with his finger then he had a little sneaky peak to see if i saw. After he packed it up and was about to sell it to me. I insisted on them getting me another model, the next one was worse, in the end we tested 5 lcds all with dead pixels. Got my money back went to the shop next door and got a perfect lcd with no dead pixels.

What do dead pixels look like?

I haven't had an LCD screen before.

Thanks.

usually there just little red dots, ask the shop owner to do a colour test. The monitor scans through from red, green, blue etc you will be able to see the dead pixels like this, if there are any.