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I have the 28" Hanns G monitor discussed in that thread, $500 from Costco plus shipping and (at least in Massachusetts) sales tax.
I like it, but I can't imagine why you would want one for gaming. What advantage would it have over a smaller 1920x1200 resolution LCD? Wouldn't you just need to sit a little further back to view the whole 28" at once?
I normally program with three CRT's connected to one computer. I don't want to see it all at once. I sit close to the CRT to see detail and I prefer to turn my head to see related pages already displayed than to use the mouse or keyboard to rearrange windows in a smaller virtual desktop (to look at related pages).
At home I don't have enough desk space (physical, not metaphorical) for three CRT's so I try to use one 28" LCD instead of two CRTs. The LCD costs more and isn't as good, but lacking physical space, there wasn't much choice.
To sit close and look at a lot of text, 1920x1200 really isn't enough resolution for 28". It took a lot of tweaking to get the fonts nearly acceptable.
This Hanns G also has one very annoying problem. I think it is design flaw. I've seen other mention of it in reviews, but I'm not certain it isn't a unit flaw in my unit: It gets into a state in which it refuses to display anything. When in that state, any change in the timing or resolution of the incomming signal makes it display the new signal perfectly for under a second then go back to black. Disconnecting and reconnecting the cable does the same. Usually I can get it back to working by:
1) disconnect the cable
2) turn off the lcd and wait a few seconds
3) turn on the lcd and wait a few seconds
4) reconnect the cable
That is a real pain and it doesn't always work. What always works is to replace steps 1 and 4 by turning the computer power off and back on leaving the cable connected. But that is even more of a pain.
Turning the lcd off and back on with the computer on and cable connected never gets it out of the sick mode. In fact doing that when it wasn't sick usually gets it into the sick mode.
Despite all the problems, it does the job I wanted and I don't think anything else for just $500 would.
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