Perfect image fidelity - no expense spared.

Stunning image quality and colour reproduction, plus some innovative features

It lacks HDCP and isn’t for general home use, but remains the best if you need accurate colours.

The price puts it out of reach for some, but the incredible colours and adjustable stand will appeal to professionals.

Outstanding. Fantastic. Excellent. The FlexScan came top or equal top in all areas of our quality testing.

The FlexScan L557 was a great looking monitor with some top specs, including a high contrast ratio, dual inputs (D-Sub and DVI-D), very wide (and high) viewing angles (170º vertical and 170º horizontal), and a whopping five-year next business day warranty.

An unbeatable stand and good quality, but it’s simply too costly.

Flawless. Behold, the crème de la crème by Dell.

A beautiful image that comes at a terrible recommended retail price.

The 19" LCD fits now represents outstanding value for money, and is so much nicer to use than a 17" screen. We round up and test the best.

The squarish, brick-like appearance may look like an uninspired design to some, but just picking it up will reveal the superior build quality of the L365 over any other screen in the Labs.

This Hitachi monitor features IPS TFT, a pre-cursor to the latest Super-IPS technology used in the superb Eizo unit.

A beautifully designed LCD, but at a big premium.

The Sony SDM-X82B was one of the most consistent performers in this Labs, gaining clean passes in 16 out of our 19 test screens.

With average image quality and a lack of up-to-date features, we can’t recommend the LP2465.

HP crashes the 30" party with the most versatile display on the market.

Impressive widescreen quality for an attractive price.

This was an extremely difficult category to judge, with pricing, components and performance playing a heavier part in the judging process because of the general disparity between models submitted.

The SM181T uses a panel based on Samsung’s own PVA technology. This stands for patterned vertical alignment and increases the viewing angle in the same way as MVA, although Samsung claims a viewing angle of 170 degrees – the same as Super-IPS.

Not as stylish as the Dell, but the BenQ’s image quality and HDMI port make it our top 24in LCD.