PVA/MVA Colour shift - does it vary from monitor to monitor?

[Emp.Man]

Since I bought (and returned) the 21" Gateway monitor using the same panel as the Samsung 215TW because of it's colour shifting I've totally discounted getting a monitor using a PVA or MVA panel, which is making life difficult as I'd really like a monitor with a component input and S-IPS/TN film models including it seem very thin on the ground, especially in the UK market.

Just wondering if the severity of it can vary from monitor to monitor in the same way, say, backlight bleed or banding can. I guess I'm really hoping for someone to tell me I just had a bad apple.. There are that many people raving about the 24" Dells and Benqs that I'm doubting myself, even though to me the Gateway was unusable for movies or Photoshop because of the darkness in whatever part of the screen you were directly in front of. If I was editing a black and white photo I'd have to move my head over to the side in order to see the shadow detail I should be seeing.

In case anyone's unsure of what I mean, here's a photo I found on another forum of a 2007WFP with a S-PVA panel which demonstrates it really well:

Any thoughts? Or do I have to keep up the wait for new models to come out?

 

[Emp.Man]

That could be down to you having the S-IPS panel on the 2007WFP, I think the image was posted by someone disgruntled at getting the S-PVA version

 

[Emp.Man]

Thanks a lot for the help guys, very much appreciated

I came across this component to VGA converter on my internet travels, apparently it does a really good job and it's incredibly cheap compared to the others I've seen, so that eliminates the main problem I was having in choosing a monitor.

I think I'm going to go with the 2007WFP or the LCD20WGX2 as I seem to be one of the unfortunate few bothered by the colour shift, it's a pity there doesn't seem to be any sign of the NEC and LG 24" S-IPS screens coming out over here though.

 

[Emp.Man]

It's for the Wii, VGA output was always promised for it but for some reason seems to have fallen by the wayside. It's no problem now I've managed to find a converter that does the job at a good price though, all the ones I'd seen before had been well over £100.