I just purchased a KDS 17s monitor and am enjoying it as a desktop system. It does a great job with Flight Simulator as long as I'm flying during the day. When I fly at night, the black colors don't look nearly as black as they were with my Sony es200 CRT.I've read up on contrast ratios and this monitor is 450:1. The instruments look washed out and are hard to read. Is this a case where I should be looking at monitors better than 700:1? Is night flying on them better?I'm not wedded to flying only at night, but like it alot. I fly at 1280 x 1024 at 16 bit color. Would twiddling with the system somewhere yield me better results or should I go looking for a better monitor?Otherwise, I'm quite pleased with the KDS 17s. Thanks in advance!

i just got my new 17" LCD with my new system. I havent had problems with color what so every, but there was a slight flicker for a few days but went away. If you havent tried, just play with the contrast, and brightness, you can probally figure something out, as i always do with mine if i have problems like that.

One thing I've tried is to switch to Windows mode and shrink the window to approximately 2/3rds size - that helps a bit. And I created an empty HTML page that sets the background color to black. I display the page in the browser, fire up FS9, shrink the window and it looks better, but not 100% right.I don't fly at night very often so I can live with it. I did go to Best Buy today and look at some 800:1 contrast monitors. VERY pricey...

Your experience with an LCD is precisely why I'm still using a 19" CRT. Got my wife an LCD recently because she's not nearly as critical when viewing images; she uses her PC mainly for the 'net. Maybe someday LCD's or their sucessor will provide a better picture. It's getting tough to even locate a new large CRT monitor these days. Sigh...