Tempted to Purchase Viewsonic VX2025..

<Dubz> · 6 Jun 2006 at 06:34

I was using the Search on the forum to get opinions on this monitor and i was seeing a lot of very postive comments until i came across the below post... Surely there not like that are they

, kinda off putting.

OcUK Thread..

Also does anyone have a good quality decent size picture of this screen.

toxic · 6 Jun 2006 at 09:22

I posted a few of mine here a bit back....

http://img430.imageshack.us/my.php?image=p10008045kn.jpg

http://img450.imageshack.us/my.php?image=p10008072qr.jpg

http://img430.imageshack.us/my.php?image=p10008107ow.jpg

Mine has a little ammount of backlight bleed...but so do most LCD monitors. It isnt noticable at all while playing games...movies or at desktop and I juts love that the blacks are actually black while gaming. Its a good buy!

<Dubz> · 6 Jun 2006 at 11:22

i just dont get how black can be black with that much light coming through =/

Edit: ah stuff it i've ordered 1, hopefully it's not to late in the day to get it for tomorrow.

fish99 · 6 Jun 2006 at 12:58

If it doesn't work out with the Viewsonic, there's always the Philips and NEC 20" widescreens.

<Dubz> · 6 Jun 2006 at 13:12

hmm i dont see any option for the native res it will need in my options.... or is there a drivers disk for that?

Baddass · 6 Jun 2006 at 20:04

<De@thW!sh> said:
hmm i dont see any option for the native res it will need in my options.... or is there a drivers disk for that?

do you mean in your graphics card settings you cant set it at 1680 x 1050? You will be able to once you connect the screen, don't worry

You could probably create a custom res in there anyway now, but your current screen wouldn';t support it

footman · 6 Jun 2006 at 23:12

got a lot of backlight bleed on mine and now the dvi connection doesnt work, running it on an analogue cable

<Dubz> · 7 Jun 2006 at 00:33

footman said:
got a lot of backlight bleed on mine and now the dvi connection doesnt work, running it on an analogue cable

find out soon i guess, should have it in about 12 hrs

toxic · 7 Jun 2006 at 07:30

got a lot of backlight bleed on mine and now the dvi connection doesnt work, running it on an analogue cable

man...thats defo an RMA back to viewsonic. Give them a phone..their RMA service is pretty good...they should send you a repalcemeet instantly!

roadie · 7 Jun 2006 at 11:08

toxic said:
man...thats defo an RMA back to viewsonic. Give them a phone..their RMA service is pretty good...they should send you a repalcemeet instantly!

Yeah, I am now on my 4th Viewsonic monitor in as many weeks, as all the replacements they sent to me have had problems. However, the one that I have now seems to be perfect.

toxic · 7 Jun 2006 at 11:29

Yeah, I am now on my 4th Viewsonic monitor in as many weeks, as all the replacements they sent to me have had problems. However, the one that I have now seems to be perfect.

whats was the problems with the others?

pcknight · 7 Jun 2006 at 12:35

Seen a few problems like Backlight Bleed with some of these TFT's. Had the same problem myself with a Viewsonic.

Violett · 8 Jun 2006 at 15:01

toxic said:
man...thats defo an RMA back to viewsonic. Give them a phone..their RMA service is pretty good...they should send you a repalcemeet instantly!

My VP930 is faulty and Viewsonic gave me an RMA number 4 weeks ago. They haven't replaced it yet. I asked them when I'll get one, they said they don't know.. they're waiting for it. It's not a rare model! They won't give a temporary monitor to replace the broken one they sold me, while I wait for them to locate a monitor that isn't broken. Their customer services is the worst I have ever known!

4 weeks and still waiting for a replacement monitor ! :mad:

jmhduck · 9 Jun 2006 at 23:27

Violett said:
My VP930 is faulty and Viewsonic gave me an RMA number 4 weeks ago. They haven't replaced it yet. I asked them when I'll get one, they said they don't know.. they're waiting for it. It's not a rare model! They won't give a temporary monitor to replace the broken one they sold me, while I wait for them to locate a monitor that isn't broken. Their customer services is the worst I have ever known!

4 weeks and still waiting for a replacement monitor !

We deal with viewsonic a ring at work a lot, they must replace the monitor with a same or better monitor, if they don't have any of yours demand an upgrade, I would (they may suddenly find some stock

)

Violett · 10 Jun 2006 at 10:31

jmhduck said:
We deal with viewsonic a ring at work a lot, they must replace the monitor with a same or better monitor, if they don't have any of yours demand an upgrade, I would (they may suddenly find some stock )

I've been trying this, but they won't respond to my emails and their telephone staff just say "We haven't got it in stock.We don't know when we're getting any. You can't have an upgrade". That's gone on for a month now.

They know that I'm stuck with a monitor with no picture, and they've said that as it's a faulty monitor they'll replace it, but in practice they're not replacing it or upgrading it and I can't do anything about it

I've only got the support number from their website. This is a long shot, but I don't suppose you've got a number for anyone in Viewsonic who might be more help?

jmhduck · 10 Jun 2006 at 23:26

Violett said:
This is a long shot, but I don't suppose you've got a number for anyone in Viewsonic who might be more help?

I've just checked our contact database and we've got the same one as quoted on their site,

You could also possibly try asking for a supervisor (they will probablly say busy/unavailable say you are willing to wait, and try to demand something make it difficult for the person on the other end of the phone they should give in eventually

failing that try threatening to take to trading standards especially if it's over a month, if they still won't give you anything contact trading standards as the product you purchased comes with a warranty supplying the warranty.

Hope some of that helps let us know how it goes.

<Dubz> · 12 Jun 2006 at 17:19

well it finally arrived and works perfectly.

Nice to see my rant and complain about the service was kindly deleted by Spie, what ever happened to freedom of speech, yes i know this is there form and they can do as they please but i hope he atleast read what i typed and took some of it in, i've spent £1000's with them and this isnt the first time.

Baddass · 12 Jun 2006 at 17:55

<De@thW!sh> said:
well it finally arrived and works perfectly.

Nice to see my rant and complain about the service was kindly deleted by Spie, what ever happened to freedom of speech, yes i know this is there form and they can do as they please but i hope he atleast read what i typed and took some of it in, i've spent £1000's with them and this isnt the first time.

this isn't the place though unfortunately. If you have any issues, take them up with the shop directly. The forums have their rules and ALL users are expected to abide by them, regardless of who they are (admins / dons included) and how much they may or may not spend at the shop.

<Dubz> · 14 Jun 2006 at 03:57

i know where your coming from and understand, the only problem i have is that i did speak to them directly and it's like complaining to a brick wall.

Oh well it arrived and works perfectly so hopefully i wont have to do any RMA's etc, i can see the Backlight Bleed but it's not a lot so i think i can live with it.

Didnt realise it was gonna be so heavy though! Certainly a lot more than my 17, it's so nice to have the deskspace though.

Still think movie playback looks better on a CRT

toxic · 14 Jun 2006 at 07:34

its it backlight bleed or just fading of the colours due to viewing angles. I thought I had slight backlight bleed with mine....but if you move you head left or right from the center of the screen...the side you are looking at goes dead black....with absolutely no light at all. This isnst backlight bleed but a viewing angle issue.