[John Casler]

This is a 17" Flat Panel LCD (HDTV) Monitor.

It lists for $1199

Is brand new and has full factory warrantee  for $599 plus shipping

More info here: http://www.sherwoodusa.com/prod_tl1705w.html

Features

DTV/HDTV compatible—DTV signals (720p, 1080i, 480p, 480i)
Dynamic Digital Surround System
10 Watts per channel: Total 20 Watts
LG Philips LCD 17.1 inch WIDESCREEN Panel
Super-IPS
Resolution: 1280 x 768 (WXGA)
Viewing angle (H/V—176/176 degrees)
High Brightness: 450 cd/m
Wide Contrast: CR=400:1
Pixelworks Intelligent Windowing Technology
Friendly User-Interface, Transparent and Translucent OSD Integrated
TV Tuner—181-Channel Synthesized Tuning
High Enhancement Video Processing Technology
3D Motion-adaptive Video
de-interlacing
DCT/DLTI (Digital Color/Luminance Transient Improvement)
Black Level Expansion
PIP (Picture-in-Picture) PC
PIP allows you to watch video while working on the PC
Fully adopted, Multi-input connections
for DVD, DivX, PC, VCR
Component (Y-Cb-Cr) / S-Video / CVBS / 15 pin D-Sub /

[John Casler]

Price drop $499 plus shipping

[NealH]

I am pondering over this.  I assume as a computer monitor (for Apple computer) it would work fine offering resolution and brightness equal to the current Apple monitors??

Then, for TV I assume I would only need a tuner card for my computer??

Sorry to sound a bit naive, but I am not a geek in these matters.  I am in the market for a flat screen monitor and this caught my eye.

[brj]

I can't comment on brightness, and you will want to find consider what connections your graphics card has, but here are the resolution comparisons:

TV at 1080i = 1920x1080
Apple 20" Cinima  = 1680 x 1050
Apple 23" Cinima  = 1920 x 1200
Apple 30" Cinima  = 2560 x 1600

[jswallac]

It appears that this has a built-in TV tuner, so all you would need to do is connect a cable from either an antenna, cable box, or satellite box.  Looks like a great deal if you need a new monitor that can do double duty as a TV.

[John Casler]

I am pondering over this.  I assume as a computer monitor (for Apple computer) it would work fine offering resolution and brightness equal to the current Apple monitors??

Then, for TV I assume I would only need a tuner card for my computer??

Sorry to sound a bit naive, but I am not a geek in these matters.  I am in the market for a flat screen monitor and this caught my eye.

I am not an Apple/Mac computer person, but it does say that it is compatible (MAC) in the manual.

And it does have the tuner, amp and speakers in the unit.

All you would need do is connect the Video out (Video Card) of your computer to the PC Video Connection, and the Audio (Sound Card) out to the PC Audio In, and you're good to go.

You can also connect a DVD player via Component Video Inputs.