I would just like to know which monitor would be most ideal for my situation. At the same price, I am deciding between the BenQ GL2750HM and the Samsung S27B550V. The monitor would be used for gaming, SCHOOL work and movies equally. Possibly in the future a PS3 or Xbox may be used with the monitor. Also, how far AWAY from the monitor should I be looking ideally at this resolution and size?
Thanks in advance.I like Samsung brand myself. Have had them for years all the way back to syncmaster CRT's and they lasted me lots of years of continuous use. The CRT's wouldnt die and I eventually had to get rid of good working 15 and 17" CRTs because I didnt want a bunch of power hungry huge deskweights. Today I have a 19" Samsung flatscreen that I bought back in 2007 that is used daily, as well as a 17" flatscreen that is Samsung that I gave to my daughter which use to be my wifes that is about 7 years old, and I have a 24" on the wall that is also Samsung that I use with my dual video output from video card to be able to watch netflix etc from my bed with surround sound of the PC setup etc. My wife I upgraded to a 20" wide screen Hanns-G brand LED Flatscreen when it was on sale for $79.99 with free shipping from newegg. I also bought myself one of these at the same time since whenever my 19" dies, if it ever dies, I will have a display right away to take out of box and use a 20" widescreen for myself as well. The price was right to go with a different brand since it was like getting 2 x 20" Hanns-G flatscreens for the price of 1 x Samsung at the time. And there were like 462 feedbacks with 4 eggs, and browsing through 2 pages of feedback it seemed like an ok display to take a CHANCE on.

As far as PS3 and XBox as long as this display has a HDMI input you should be all set with the display running the game systems.

27" is a fairly large display, I actually bought my 24" widescreen to replace my 19" square screen but found the 24" to be just way too huge of a viewing area for my computing needs, so thats why I bought a VESA bracket and mounted it on the wall with dual video between my 19" and the 24" vs using it as my computer display. Maybe 27" wont be too large for your needs, but sitting like 2.5 feet away from it, I literaly felt like I was having to turn my head a lot when gaming etc, vs just being able to follow STUFF with my eyes. Maybe if I sat further away from it it wouldnt be so bad, but if I did that I'd be conflicting with my wifes computer space since we are set up in a room sort of back to side. Back to back didnt work out with seat backs conflicting so we are in like an L setup in the room.

I would go with the native resolution and see how that is. You can always adjust the text to be larger with the browser or windows settings for icons etc. Quote

Check out of the REFRESH rate of the monitor. Resolution should be  1024 * 768.