REVIEW: Sony GDM 17SE1

This is a nice monitor, but with three faults:

1. The monitor has to warm up before the picture quality gets reasonable. The lower right hand corner of the screen gets a strong reddish glow when the tube is first turned on. After a few minutes the glow completely subsides.
2. While the monitor has convergence controls, the convergence changes notably from when it is first turned on, to about 30 minutes after that time, lowering the picture quality even more for a short period of time. Of course if you never turn your computer off you will never see this problem. As it is, you can just set it to the best setting for warmed up mode, and endure the convergence problems when it first starts up.
3. Video adjustment controls are hard to use and are poorly labeled.

On the other hand, once the monitor has warmed up, and the correct adjustments made (which you only have to do once) the picture quality is very nice, as good or better than any other I have seen. And can you say flat? After using an almost perfectly flat monitor like this you will hate all other curved monitors.