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I just installed this 23 incher on two PC's. It's great! This thing is huge, it's gonna take some getting used to! It's my second PC LCD monitor, replacing an early 15" Sony.
The only thing I could wish for would be a split screen button.
I wish I could split the screen and view both of my PC's at the same time, as opposed to the switch to toggle between input #1 and #2. It's still great in that I now have one monitor on my desk's top, but split screen would be much better for me at times. Also worthy of mention, is the lag beteween toggling from 1 to 2. There's a little more than a split second of black, for the other desktop to render. Most people wont mind this I'm sure, but I hope newer models would provide an instant transition.
I'm also interested in a new video card to unleash this beast, the ATI line is looking good. Seems like they have earned some rave reviews with the 9700 and better lines. Also, all the pixels on mine seem to do their job perfectly. I read about someone having a problem with a few of theirs, glad I didn't.

I'm looking forward to not having to slide left to right just to see the entire canvas I'm working on in Photoshop. I'm not a graphics designer by trade. But I do my fair share of Photoshopping for my websites, so this is a welcome addition to my business.

All in all, if you can spare the cash, get this Sony without looking back.

First let me say that this is an outstanding monitor. The picture clairty is great as is the contrast and brightness. Its easy to hook up and adjust and the +- tilting stand is great. The huge 1920x1200 resolution is additive.

But here's the bad news. Sony's Q/A on this is piss-poor. I have 4 of these monitors and every single one of them has had to be returned due to between 1 and 10 stuck on pixels. Typically they are the green ones, but there have been a few red ones too. Most recently I just bought two more of these monitors and the both had stuck on pixels! One had just one, but the other had 10 or more. I took that later back and just got the replacement... Much to my dismay, it too has at least four stuck on pixels. I know that they make them without any stuck pixels because the first two I bought last year had stuck pixels, but the replacment units did not.

Its just a crying shame Sony can hire some Q/A staff without Coke-bottle glasses. These are truely awesome monitors, but this having to take them back is a huge pain. In summary, I've had my hands on seven of these monitors and 5 of them have had stuck pixels. Check your's closely by selecting an unused input in a darken room.

I highly recomment this monitor, and its definatly worth the dorking around to get one without defects. Just beware that the chances are high you're going to get one with stuck pixels. Choose your vendor carefully, as I've noted that many of the vendors are now applying disclaimers that say something like "no returns for less that 8 defective pixels". That's an unacceptable return policy, and they should be avoided, especially on a monitor that costs $2600.

I went into fry's and set up the sony sdm-p232w/b side by side with the apple cinema hd 23 inch. Ostensibly these are the same monitor, however it is my perception that the apple has more vivid colours (aussie spelling ;-)). Here's my guess at why .... Some time ago I was looking into anti-glare coatings for glass for framing pictures. There is a huge variation in quality of anti-glare coating and a comensurate range in costs. The really really good ones used for "museum" jobs render the glass invisible and cost an order of magnitude more than the next step down which are still good, but not in the same ball park. The cheaper the anti-glare coating, the more the colours wash and the more "visible" the glass itself is. Same rules apply when the coating is applied to plastic. So my take on the situation is that the apple and sony monitors probably come off the same production lines but then have different anti-glare coatings applied. In my case, I still bought the more expensive, less vivid, but more PC friendly Sony ... too many issues with DVI-I to ADC and finding a KVM switch that would deal with DVI instead of analog (I run my monitor off analog and it looks great).