ah, so it was a classic TN panel issue after all. i thought you were talking about vibrancy and contrast of colors and assumed that a screen with some fancy backlighting would not come equipped with a lowend panel, my bad. as for the dell's, there are different models of the 24 inchers, you can spot the preferable panels…
A decent monitor calibrated with a decent colorimeter is a must. But as Frosty notes, if your target audience for your product is games, you should be viewing it on the same equipment they will. A 24" Dell or comparable monitor and an Eye-one Display2 colorimeter will give you a viewing environment that is better in color…
I bought a 22" Samsung and had to sell it within a week because the colours were so bad. You could be sat infront of it and the colours at the top/bottom and left/right would be different because the viewing angle of the TFT screen was so bad. Since then I've avoided 22" and TN panel screens. I eventually splashed out on a…