I worked for Best Buy for a while and I have to saw, Westinghouse was one of the crappiest LCD displays out there. I would not waste my time or money on this monitor. It's a great price for the size but the quality is so subpar it's not worth it.

tell us how you 'really' feel

I agree though, you can just go to Target and mess around with one for about 15 minutes and know its crap.

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better to wait for the refurbished model

My wife's 22" westy seems ok, but not this 25.5" one. I bought one from Costco.com and based off of mixed reviews I was expecting to return it, but I figured I'd give it a shot as it coudn't be THAT bad.

This is by far the worst monitor I have ever used. I'd rate this slightly lower than the purple CRT I had to use at work for a week while a new one was ordered.
The ghosting is amazing. I can't believe that the refresh is 2s gtg, that is a lie. I've got an old 20" widescreen sitting next to it in portrait and it is also a cheap TN with a bad 8ms posted gtg but it has significantly less ghosting.
The pixels are about the same size as my 20" but they're spaced farther apart, so the dot pitch is .287 (compared to 0.270 mm on the 24" Dell I'm using right now). It is almost as if the panel manufacturer took a smaller 1920x1200 panel, like a 24" panel, and stretched it.
The contrast is pretty craptacular, but I mostly fixed that w/ my video card settings. It does have slightly better color reproduction than my old 20" LCD, but that's not saying much.
Oh yeah, I don't want to forget the buzzing sound when you turn down the backlight, but you can get rid of it by muting the speakers (you'd think it would be the actual backlight buzzing, but it isn't).

Avoid this thing like the plague if you do anything that requires moving things on the screen (or even if you hate seeing a little trail of faded out cursors while you type). If you have a video card that can adjust the color/contrast/brightness then it might be ok for text as long as you keep it 3+ feet away so you don't notice the dot pitch.

tigerdirect has a 25in 1080p from I-inc(Han-c) for 200.. >.>

that's a pretty good deal

#7, it's not really a good deal. It's a reasonable deal, because it's a TN panel. I got my 24.4" Westy back in 2007 for $350 and that's a deal and I absolutely love it. Because it's a MVA panel which has a lot better color and viewing angle than a TN panel. You see inverted color if at different angle. TN panel is cheap that's why this 25" viewable monitor price can be keep it low at $250.

I have one of these.. its recognized as a tv not a monitor..

you wont see all the boot up information.. and if you dont have a back up monitor, and the OS goes to hell.. have fun fixing it while you cant see anything on your screen. Spend the extra cash, get something else.. unless its a spare for say, videos.