Where do you purchase your monitors?

Ive been using my old crt monitor for some time now. Its reliable, and its been keeping the color good. But its only 15". I would like to upgrade the monitor eventually and possibly get a 2nd one for the studio so I can process images there.

So my question is what monitors are good for image processing that represents good color and can maintain a color profile?

and 2ndly, where do you buy them?

Its my understanding that most lcd monitors are horible for keeping a good color profile, and even more so if you dont look at it at the right angle. Even moving a couple inches might change the look of the colors. But this information is a few years old at least, so maybe thats not true anymore. I just know my laptop looks totally different than my crt monitor and I cant process images on it. But it is a sub $300 laptop.

future shop here
or best buy

But do you get lcd or crt's? I havent seen crt's in retail stores for ages now. Are they still the prefered for photographers? I havent really looked into it for like 5 years.

I get LCD, or whatever looks good and is priced right at the time. Gets the most reviews

I like wide screens the best.

I think its generally up to you whatever you think is best.

i guess the question becomes what has the most accurate color (what photographers really care about) at whatever price you are looking into

The Dell 2209W seems to be pretty well reviewed here on the forums, do a search and see what you think.

IPS lcd monitors are generally considered better for photos.
(Not an expert, just passing along stuff I hear).

If you buy an LCD, you should buy one with an IPS panel (IPS > PVA > TN). You can look up monitors you're interested in on http://tftcentral.co.u​k to see what type of panel they have, since it's never listed in the specs. Other giveaways for IPS panels is a 178 degree horizontal viewing angle, slower response time, and blacks that turn purple when viewed from an extreme angle. NEC IPS panels I think have an "i" at the end of the name, or something like that. All Apple displays are IPS.

The best LCDs have modifiable LUTs (or something like that). These are the priciest monitors, along the lines of $1000 for a 20". Eizo and Lacie make these. Cheaper monitors rely on the graphics card to manipulate the RGB values that they display.

There're also different types of IPS panels, I'm not quite clear what the difference is. In any case, H-IPS > S-IPS > e-IPS.

Whatever you buy, get color calibration tools to go with it if you don't have any already. Lacie, X-Rite, Datacolor, and some other companies sell all sorts of them for different budgets and needs.