People may disagree with me, and that's fine. I just want to say that I've seen terrific results with NEC TFT monitors, though they are often a bit less expensive than Samsung monitors of the same class. I've got a 1700V that has just been sterling, and my father purchased a 15" that has been similarly great.
I mention Samsung because the 19" CRT I had before the LCD was a Samsung, purchased on the recommendations of all the gamez kidz at Anandtech. It proved to be a poor monitor. Thus, this is a recommendation based purely on personal experience. Moral: I think the new NEC monitors are pretty nifty.