Dell filed the suit at a U.S. district court in San Francisco on Friday against the group of five firms, which also includes Japan's Seiko Epson and Taiwan's HannStar, a spokesman at Dell's Japan unit said on Monday.

Dell has not decided the level of damages it will seek in the lawsuit, the spokesman said.

Sharp and Hitachi said that they were aware of the suit filed by Dell but declined to comment further. Toshiba and Seiko Epson said they were still making checks on the issue, while no one at HannStar was immediately available for comment.

City of Industry, Calif. - (March 3, 2010) – Sceptre, world class manufacturers of high-quality TV and PC monitors, has just released its 27-inch true 1080p LCD widescreen PC monitors featuring industry-impressive 60,000:1 contrast ratios and ultra-fast 2 ms response times for a more realistic and advanced PC gaming experience.

“In the crowded LCD display space, the jaw-dropping performance and stylish design of our monitors are second to none,” said Cathy Chou, vice president of operations, Sceptre.

"We all of us buy stuff. We buy this and that and we have to face the unavoidable problem of choice. We are offered various products with enticing labels and new-fangled technologies – sometimes lots of them in a single product – and the two opposing desires to get a good one and not to overpay are struggling in our heads.

This article is focused on the problem of choice of a computer monitor and consists of two parts. The first part covers the new trends that emerged or came to full force in 2009.