For monitor shopping, you really have to go to a store and look at it in person. Otherwise you have to find a good review with tons of pictures and judge by that.
Samsung and Dell get a
from me.
I got a free Dell 17" LCD from Bell a while back for signing into a 3yr contract or something. They double shipped it to. So I actually got 2 free 17" LCDs
That was an awesome day.