Rated 
Best Monitor I've Ever Owned.
Started Mar 17, 2006
Strengths: Beautiful image quality, wonderful variety of inputs, no ghosting
Weaknesses: Weak, unnecessary included software, no DVI cable (?), measly 1-year warranty.
I'd been looking to get a widescreen monitor that could also function as an HD screen for my XBOX 360 as well, and I found everything I was looking for and then some in this monitor. The FPD2185W is huge at 21" for a PC monitor, and it also's a very respectable screen for console gaming and even HDTV viewing in a bedroom/dorm room.
It's a great solution for dorming college students; I have my PC hooked up through DVI, my 360 through the component (which is unfortunately a bit dark), and my PS2 through S-Video (which doesn't look as bad as in comparable high-res monitors with S-Video thanks to the Faroujda DCDi technology in the monitor). You can even run the coaxial cable to a VCR, then run a yellow composite cable from the VCR to the monitor to watch regular cable television on it. To top it all off, this thing has HDCP, future-proofing it for whenever they're going to implement that encryption stuff into Microsoft Windows Vista and other things.
There are a few issues. People have reported X-patterned backlight bleeding when viewing a completely black screen in a dark room, which is a minor issue for most, but it's still there if you care about such things. My particular model has almost none of that problem - you really have to know about the issue to see a trace of it. Then there are reports of buzzing noises coming from the back of the monitor from the power supply. I didn't have this issue either, but this apparently is an issue for some. Finally, avoid the included EZTune software like the plague. It does very little and just causes more headaches than it's worth.
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