14 DAY TRIAL // Back in the days, having a monitor which could represent more than two colors was considered the coolest thing you could have. Now people have developed a certain seventh sense, not sixth sense, that usually refers to the paranormal part of the deal and that's not what I've had in mind. This seventh sense is the "I am a perfectionist in disguise" sense, and usually appears in the close proximity of highly advanced technological products.
Such of a person is recognized by its desire of having a who knows what type of LCD monitor or the latest type of computer processor, "because it's cool". These persons don't actually know what the difference is between two very similar products and usually buy very expensive things without even knowing what it exactly does, the product being bought "because it's the best". The area of "expertise" they usually have isn't limited to just one segment of the market, they are experts in not one, but most likely, every domain existent out there.
In the case of monitors, one of these persons wouldn't know why he is buying an LCD with an SPVA panel over a TN panel, but he buys it anyway. Maybe it's just our way of bragging to our friends and co-workers about it, but this "pride" also weighs heavily on the material side of things, so must be approached with caution. Such is the case of the LCD monitors which have become available in quite some large sizes, being a challenge for LCD TVs, even though opinions aren't the same for everybody.
An LCD monitor has larger functionality features than the LCD TV, and the choice of many has been the LCD TV as a home entertainment element, but what is an LCD TV than a differently shaped LCD monitor with a TV Tuner in it? However, the price tag of an LCD monitor still exceeds the one of an LCD TV and, above all that, widescreen LCD monitors are becoming more and more of a fashionable object to own and are said to become mainstream in 2008. So, all in one, the choice belongs to the end user and it's still the matter of having the product that best fits the description: "it's the best".