I can tell you why (and I hope others, who have fewer replies than they wanted to, will also take notice):
Here in OCUK forums, we have people with varying experience. Here in the monitor section, most people have experience on the different combinations of 24"-27", £300+, 120Hz, 2560x1440, as that's indeed where the good stuff is, and what we're interested in.
We have now seen few threads with £150 budgets (quite common in the Christmas season, I'd reckon), asking for recommendations. And that's all fine and dandy, we understand that not everybody is willing to spend half of their system upgrade budget on a single component. But unfortunately, we don't have that much experience on the bottom-of-the-barrel monitors, other than that they are indeed bottom-of-the-barrel. We can give semi-educated guesses, but that's all they are, guesses.
For the low-budget inquiries, I tend to recommend to increase the budget and go for the
BenQ GW2760HS (actually, it's even on sale atm, for £200) or its little brother,
BenQ GW2760 for £162.
They are both 27", PWM-free, 1920x1080 VA panels.
But considering that you're already worried of text sharpness at 24" with 1920x1080, it would be logical to assume that 27" 1920x1080 would be out of the question. Unfortunately, low-budget 24" monitors is where my semi-educated guesses turn into wild guesses, so I can't help you much more. All I can recommend is that don't buy a TN panel, if at all possible. Someone might recommend IPS over VA, as IPS is generally considered to have better color accuracy. But on the low budget models, this might not even apply. But both are still better than TN. In other words, don't choose a TN monitor.
Another thing for lack of replies is too little background info. This doesn't apply to you, as you have readily stated the usage scenario and your own thoughts on what sort of monitor you're looking for, but this is not always the case. I would advice others to take notice of this bit.
But another thing applying to you, which also explains the views without replies, is your ambiguous thread title ("Monitor Recommendations?). People will come and see if it's something they could help with. If it were "Monitor recommendations of 22"-24" for £150-£200", people wouldn't need to come check the inside of the thread to see what you're after. Actually, the mouse-over does give a brief description of the inside of the thread, but most people forget it's there, and simply click the link... Like I did.
