Just bought the AOC E2795VH 27"

Best 200 notes I ever spent. I've read conflicting reviews of this monitor and just wanted to throw in my take on it having owned one for an hour heh

Complaints about blurriness when watching videos, making it useless for such purposes can safely be put to bed. I've just watched a selection of SD and HD video clips and they were stunning. There might be a slight hint of blur but it isn't something I'd even comment on and hasn't affected very fast moving action scenes for me. This is when using the screen from a PC, allowing the player to scale. Maybe things are awful if you're hooking up a DVD player to it but ho hum, not interested in doing that. For me this is a PC screen.

The colour is just awesome. Of course I'm not comparing this to high end screens costing many hundreds as I don't own such screens but I've got some nice samsung 24 inchers and this puts those to shame. The viewing angles are sweet too.

Easily the best monitor I ever bought. I'm not really interested in gaming so not sure how it looks there but I can't see how you'd be dissapointed.

In short I don't think there is anything else on the market that competes with this on price. I could easily recommend two of these for professional use side by side. The resolution is going to limit pro's with one but with a 24" sitting next to this I'm having a ball in Cinema4D, a pretty serious 3D app. Not feeling restricted at all on screen real estate and in fact I seriously appreciate the pixel size as my eyes are not what they once were and I can now easily read even small print without squinting like I had to with my 24" screens.

Haven't done any fine calibration yet, just eyeballed things so I can play but right now I'm over the moon with what the screens giving me. Also, be happy to answer any questions about the screen if anyone is considering a 27" screen at the lower end of the market.

My fears about Overclockers (stuff I read at hotukdeals) have also passed. Fantastic price. £280 at hamazon, next day delivery, driver was a cheery soul and even gave me advice on my washing machine that was rattling away as he delivered the screen. Was easy to track the order too.

One very happy customer here.

You played any games on it? I was considering buying this monitor but was worried about gaming performance.

I tried Defence Grid a tower defence game and it looked great. I saw a lot of detail I was missing on my previous main monitor in the darker areas.

I don't have any fast fps's to try it with but I'll see if i can download a demo of one and report back what its like in that kind of scenario later tonight.

I've calibrated the display to the best of my ability now (which isnt that of a pro) and the contrast is just so good. You can get really rich black and dark details and still have the whites popping.

I'm not really understanding why this isn't a hot monitor flying off the shelves. I'm thinking the few reviews out there have done it a great disservice putting off early punters.

Yeah the total lack of information really put me off. AOC need to get this monitor in the hands of reviewers because I think I found a total of 1 or 2 reviews and its hard to spend that kind of money without feedback from people that actually own the product.

dpmcalli said:

Yeah the total lack of information really put me off. AOC need to get this monitor in the hands of reviewers because I think I found a total of 1 or 2 reviews and its hard to spend that kind of money without feedback from people that actually own the product.

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It scared me too but I knew at least the colour would be good and contrast ratio. That was more important to me than anything else as my main use is 3D rendering. I reasoned I could just watch video and play the odd game on my other screen.

Now having played a few games, FPS, racing, RTS (shogun2 is WOW on this screen) I literally cannot fault it. My eyes can't detect any kind of blurring or problems you might associate with slower response times that you'd typically get from an MVA panel like this. And this is with me sitting 12 inches from the screen. I'm up real close with how I've set it up and its just gorgeous at everything I throw at it.

The only really sad thing about this screen is that benchmarks, partically opengl (which is most important to me) have suffered having more resolution between the two screens but thats nothing a better gfx card can't solve

So bottom line time.

Gaming - I can't fault it, its a huge beautifully rich display that you can view at wider angles than any common TN panel, making it ideal for at a distance couch gaming with friends I'd say. The sheer size of the pixels from 1920x @ 27" means games like shogun and civilisation are going to be a joy to play, with no squinting. Maybe hardercore gamers who really feel the lag between man and machine will prefer a TN panel over this but only you can decide if you're that sensitive to response times.

Video - Bloody beautiful when watching HD content. Loads of detail right down at the black end and when viewing actual black in video its hard to see if the monitor is switched on or not, its that black. Kinda spooky for me when you get a long cut scene to black and my mind says "the monitors gone off" and then bright video leaps out at me. I've been programmed to accept that dark grey TN's give you No motion problems even in really fast action video sequences. SD video looks worse than it did at 24" but i cant blame the monitor for that.

Design - Here the screen really shines for me. The accurate colours, really solid across the screen with no gradients to worry about is just a joy to work with. Cinema 4D's UI has become so much more readable too with all those mid greys of the UI now being absolutely distinguishable and seperated instead of merging into a grey mess as was happening on my 24" samsung TN panel. Two of these would be a design powerhouse. One with an additonal other monitor is pretty fine too. Dreamweaver for instance on this screen with the code view on a second screen is just wonderful.

I know I sound like a schill. first post and im singing the praises of a monitor, can't really help that. This is what I signed up to this forum to post about. I'll be posting and reading more as the forum looks good for a hopeless techy like me so maybe in time with a growing post count this post wont look so fake.

Buy this monitor, sell your grandmother to get it and don't fool yourself that a 24" screen is enough, especially if your eyesight is less than 20:20.

I am quite pleased with mine.
The picture quality when using the DVI input is very good.
I am seeing detail in HD content that my other monitors aren't showing.
Extremely impressive for the money.

Its not all good though, when using the HDMI input the picture is awful, overly bright with washed out colours.
The difference in picture quality between the DVI and HDMI inputs is huge.
Note: I have only used a PC to drive the monitor haven't tried a BR player on the HDMI.

BTW
You don't get a DVI-DVI cable in the box.
Only HDMI-HDMI and VGA cables.

Looking at picking one of these up, but read somewhere that they changed them to a TN panel now and no longer MVA. Can anyone confirm or deny this please?

They are TN, I bought one just before xmas and sent it back, paid the extra for a hazro.

I couldnt get the colours to sit right though, and the viewing angles were poor, for the cost of returing it though it was worth a punt, I suppose the main problem I had was going from a PVA to a TN, the colours were terrible.

At the end of the day its a lot of screen for not a lot of money, im sure some are better than others, mine wasnt great but for the sake of £12 it was worth a gamble to see if i would be happy with it.

thanks for the info's

Its should be no different to any other tn panel 27" I think this was great value for money before xmas when it was £185 I sadly got the Iiiyama and have had nowt but hassle, mainly from repairtech but when it was working well it was great.

The AOC is great value and as for the mva thing if you check the reviews non of them were mva just the review sample so when they finally shipped we all had been duped. That was very naughty of AOC but hey its cheap