On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 17:25:52 -0400, Bill wrote:

The reviews vary, but are nonetheless a good point to start.
The spent a lot of time reviewing. The monitor I mentioned was
described, at least at one very extensive monitor-benchmarking website,
as best in its class for my intended usage (mostly text). Since it
offered the highest brightness (~350 candlepower), and since I have
owned no other monitors other than ones made my Dell (i.e. I trusted
them), I put it at the top of my list. A comparable one, probably
without the "Dell Monitor Manager" software, which changes the monitor
mode based of the application one is looking at, is apparently the
LG-XXX850.

Brightness as a text factor, that sounds useful to keep in mind even
if only next time changing settings with this Westinghouse. Especially
with time you've run with Dells, that well may be unacceptability a
dropping-point to consider for likelihood among other offerings.

This was a last minute replacement on a very bad Sceptre experience.

I'd had earlier along a very nice "text-grade" monitor, no doubt
brighter. A replacement, actually, as the first did fail thankfully
within a year, perhaps refurbished or new on replacement model with
the following year's new model number. Heavy as a cow for a flatpanel
but it did run without issue for something along 15 years. As in
smoothly, acceptable and an enjoyable experience -- what you mentioned
about blinking subsequently after usage would certain blow at my cool.

A monitor is the only thing besides, I do turn off on everything else
on computers always on. But leaving a monitor on for say two weeks
initial reliability testing may not help 9 months down the road if it
craps out, which was my case prior to the 15-yr replacement model.

Would you believe, and that was a monster of 32" for that old, tech,
after I'd talked to them had me on the floor with the monitor face
down and back removed replacing a boxful of swapout parts they sent
with a thought that might initially solve the issue -- half the lower
panel went into some sort of fixed kaleidoscopic pixelization, where
as the top half displayed itself normally. Something less than
encouraging to think to try on an old flyback transformer wrapped
around the backside yoke of a CRT. ;