Choosing a widescreen LCD

I have been comfortable on my 3x17" Samsung lcd's (see this post for a writeup on my panorama) but am looking to move to larger screens. At the moment I'm considering the upgrade to two 21" or 22" Samsung's; the 215TW or 225bw respectively. The 215TW is a couple hundred dollars more but has extra inputs and supports PiP (Picture in Picture). Whilst handy, it's not a deciding factor for me. The larger screen size of the 22" is always nice for games and movies (even if it is only an inch). The dot pitch is marginally better on the 215TW (which is what you would expect on a smaller screen) that has had a chance to be refined somewhat. It just means you would have to sit the 22" back a few cm to not notice the larger pixel size (0.282mm). Since it's a larger screen, that's not a problem. One good thing to note is both models use true 8bit panels equating to 16.7 million colours. Cheaper lcd's sometimes use 6bit panels, which I think use 3bit dithering. Nearly every brand 21" and 22" LCD I have seen is still using the 1680x1050 (16:10). It's cheaper to produce and keeps the cost down from moving to 16:9 on the higher resolution like 1920xSomething :). You generally find the larger the panel the lower the quality as they are more expensive to produce. As competition becomes more competitive, you generally find each manufacturer tweak and optimise their panels. 17" and 19" lcd's are now very common place and are extremely well made from most companies now. Backlight bleeding, dead/bright pixels, uneven back lighting, poor viewing angles etc. are a thing of the past. As you progress up the size scale they tend to get a bit worse. Backlight bleeding on larger panels is more noticeable, uneven back lighting and sometimes smaller viewing angles (160/160 for instance) become more common. My 172x Samsung monitors are rated at 12ms which seems quite high today. But I still game with them fine. You do get some motion blurring in fps games but the quality of the image is still superb. The 21" lcd mentioned is rated at 8ms GtoG and the 22" is rated at 5ms GtoG (Grey to Grey). Motion blurring should be almost non existent. I'm almost ready to purchase two 225BW's but am a little weary on the backlight bleeding problems I have been reading about. From what people have been reporting it seems particularly prominent in this model. Chi Mei are one of the main companies producing 22" panels at the moment. Samsung might be producing a small amount. Some people have cracked open the hood of the 225BW and reported seeing either a Chi Mei Optoelectronics M220Z1-L01 panel or Samsung's own LTM220M1 (which is supposedly very similar). I've read that Acer and Dell's 22" models are also using the same Optoelectronics panel. This may or may not be the case now. However, the back light bleeding is cropping up in a lot of the 22" lcd's at the moment for this reason (many manufactures are using the same panel at the moment). Some people have been lucky reporting very little bleeding, whilst others have reported terrible bleeding to the point of making the monitor unusable for most tasks. I'm a big fan of Samsung and they have excellent service. I've never had to ring them for any of my lcd's as I never had any problems (and still don't). But a friend of mine did and they do door to door delivery of a new monitor no questions asked. Most Samsung lcd's come with a 3 year warranty. Another friend of mine has 2x215TW and they are very nice. If I do shy away from the 225BW I'll be getting two of those. I have until next week to decide when stores begin to open back up. You can check out the two mentioned models on Samsung Samsung 215TW link Samsung 225BW link