Sometimes you get what you pay for; other times you get more. And unfortunately, sometimes you get less than what you pay for. At $729, the NEC FE1250+ is one of these instances, with performance well below what I'd expected from NEC at this price.

An OSD (or as NEC calls it, OSM [On-Screen Manager]) really can't get much easier than this: menus along the top with submenus below make all the standard controlsÑplus geometry settings, convergence, factory preset, degauss, and moreÑeasy to find and alter. And thank goodness, because when I sat in front of the NEC FE1250+, I had some work to do.