Why not just swich to VGA if you need the monitors contrast controls. There's probably a reason why the contrast is disabled on DVI. I have to live with an expensive DTS receiver that doesn't let you adjust treble on DTS sound.

I have two 2005fpws connected right now, one on the VGA port. After doing auto adjust a couple times I was suprised how it was just as sharp as the DVI. The white color temperature seemed a little cooler on the vga screen.

I just set the brightness on the screen to 50%, then the gamma in my video card drivers down from 1.0 to 0.8, which made it look less washed out with better darks.

I have to say though the gap between vga and dvi on my 6800nu is not as large as you say. With VGA I have to hit auto adjust a couple times and it becomes just as sharp as the other 2005fpw on DVI, but not 100% perfect. Then when I connected the same screen to the vga port on my laptop it then was like night and day, blurry like a normal CRT instead of razor sharp like an LCD should be. So I guess it might depend on your video card on how well VGA works LCD screens.

The difference between VGA and DVI is like night and day. Using VGA only for this beautiful monitor is like buying a Ferrarri with a Yugo engine installed. No amount of tweaking the settings in VGA can compare to the sharpness and color saturation of DVI, not to mention using analog in a digital world.

This is all in my humble opinion of course, and let me quote a source:

“Will I notice the difference between VGA and DVI cable?” The best way to answer this is, “Can you tell the difference between a movie being played in VCR format and a movie being played in DVD format?” Some people can spot the difference straight away, while others will not notice any difference at all; the same can be said for a DVI monitor and a normal 15 pin VGA monitor, just to a slightly lesser extent.

I can easily tell the difference between VCR and DVD, and I can definitely tell the difference between VGA and DVI.