Monitors have come a long way in recent times. For people of a certain age, and so that includes me, the thought of a monitor supporting VGA seemed to be very up-market indeed. Quickly a 14" monitor was replaced by the behemoths that were 1600x1200 CRTs, taking up swathes of desk-space, power, and weighing the best part of a ton.The main problem with CRTs was the refresh rate issue. Although a lot of people didn't notice I always found a 60hz refresh rate gave me a monster headache, and I'm sure I'm not alone.LCDs very quickly appeared on the market at incredibly high prices for even the tiniest monitor, so for a long while the choice for anyone needing a new display was either to buy a big, cumbersome, high resolution CRT. Or to spend much more on on a very small LCD that wasn't much use for gaming because technology hadn't caught up.Now of course that's a distant memory. TN panels are so cheap, and LCD monitors so prevalent, that not owning a widescreen monitor around 22" is almost unheard of. So affordable are they that owning a couple is within the means of most, and both ATI and nVidia have based their latest technologies about you having three.As the actual "wonder" of having a flat panel is so diluted as to be meaningless, manufacturers have taken to using those little details to steer you towards them.