I went through 5 monitors (bought then returned) last spring and 8 retail stores before I found the monitor I have now. What I found was that all the monitors had too damn much glare (even if they said low glare, flat screen)!!!!!!
Two were acceptable the Viewsonic ($220) and the Samsung ($150) May 2002 prices. I ended up with the Samsung. The Viewsonic had a little less glare but was $70 bucks more and because of the Triniton CRT they have 2 horizontal grey lines (wires to stiffen the mask in the CRT) at 30 and 60 % up the screen. This is a major pain when doing drawings, spreadsheets and word processing.
My model is the Samsung 753DF a friend has one also. Both have been excellent optically and no reliability problems.
The glare on every other brand was too high. If I had a shirt with white in it, and the lamp on behind the monitor, on dark screens (like is common in games) I was constantly distracted by the white streaks from my shirt. It was so bad I actually took a picture of myself reflected in the screen when the monitor was off to email friends who didn't beleive me.
Stay away from the, I think its called "diamond scan", crt based models. I had one for a month and the little diamond patterns were causing me eye strain. No matter what I tried (brightness, contrast, moire, softness, etc) I couldn't get rid of the problem.
Whatever you decide on try and find one that you can actually look at somewhere. Good luck. I hope ot to have to shop for a monitor again for many years...