Viewsonic VX2260wm 22" Widescreen True HD LCD Monitor - Glossy Black
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-071-VS
THE GOOD
Firstly, ordered this monitor on the 23rd of December, arrived on the 24th (<3 overclockers)
On connecting it to the pc the monitor had zero dead pixels (yey) and colors were "okay", a bit of fine tuning through my ati catalyst drivers did fix this after turning down the gamma alittle, but i was and still am a little concerned with the functions of the in-monitor menu being limited in this respect when using my consoles
For pc games on native resolution the image and quality is stunning (following my above edit to the image), it beats my samsung 2032mw (with a samsung panel, suprise suprise) hands down, especially on black levels and backlight bleed (almost non-existant) and also in "smoothness" - didn't notice any blurring with its 2ms g2g responce time.
As for PC FPS games, the monitor has pretty much zero input lag, i tested it against an iiyama vision master pro mt-9017e at 1024x768 and 100hz whilst playing quake 3 arena, teamfortress 2 and counterstrike source
THE BAD
New years eve: applied for rma as the image would produce an odd color when response time is set from standard to advance, and then even more from advanced to ultra (in replacement of the ghosting) however i have noticed this varies between applications and i have concluded that it does actually make the game look a little smoother, particularly when running a custom resolution at 75hz, so for the moment i have decided to hold on to the monitor despite my next annoyance with it as im not totally convinced that its something genuinely to get annoyed about, possibly it was intended.
see page 16 for supported resolutions:
http://www.viewsonic.com/assets/011/6186.pdf
Now, the supported resolutions are what have annoyed me the most, being a competitive fps gamer, i was hoping that by purchasing a 16:9 monitor at 1920x1080, it would be able to run 1280x720 at 75hz through dvi in order to be a closer match to my super fast old school crt, and well, it can do half... ie. that resolution its not actually supported in the user guide above, which seems weird considering it is a direct downscale of the image in aspect ratio, meaning that the monitor "thinks" its running at the res above or below it, or sometimes native res depending on the application, forcing hz back to 60. That and even after installing drivers those resolutions are still available to choose from. This is the same for all non-supported resolutions. So for the time being i have stuck with using 1920x1080
My other annoyance is that 720p content via hdmi (what i primarily bought the monitor for) is really blurry until you get 1m away from the monitor, whilst 1080p is perfect
Normally id think to expect this, but it scales lower res games through dvi on my PC fine and they are sharp
VERDICT
On the outter face this truely is a fantastic monitor, and definitely the one to get over common its latest rivals; the asus vh226h and benq e2202hd (if all the reviews are anything to go by at least) and i do recommend this to anybody. But it's only fair i point out its bad aspects too, and supporting only 1 16:9 resolution (its native 1080p one) but supporting several 4:3 and 16:10 resolutions, you may like me, feel a little hard done by
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-071-VS
THE GOOD
Firstly, ordered this monitor on the 23rd of December, arrived on the 24th (<3 overclockers)
On connecting it to the pc the monitor had zero dead pixels (yey) and colors were "okay", a bit of fine tuning through my ati catalyst drivers did fix this after turning down the gamma alittle, but i was and still am a little concerned with the functions of the in-monitor menu being limited in this respect when using my consoles
For pc games on native resolution the image and quality is stunning (following my above edit to the image), it beats my samsung 2032mw (with a samsung panel, suprise suprise) hands down, especially on black levels and backlight bleed (almost non-existant) and also in "smoothness" - didn't notice any blurring with its 2ms g2g responce time.
As for PC FPS games, the monitor has pretty much zero input lag, i tested it against an iiyama vision master pro mt-9017e at 1024x768 and 100hz whilst playing quake 3 arena, teamfortress 2 and counterstrike source
THE BAD
New years eve: applied for rma as the image would produce an odd color when response time is set from standard to advance, and then even more from advanced to ultra (in replacement of the ghosting) however i have noticed this varies between applications and i have concluded that it does actually make the game look a little smoother, particularly when running a custom resolution at 75hz, so for the moment i have decided to hold on to the monitor despite my next annoyance with it as im not totally convinced that its something genuinely to get annoyed about, possibly it was intended.
see page 16 for supported resolutions:
http://www.viewsonic.com/assets/011/6186.pdf
Now, the supported resolutions are what have annoyed me the most, being a competitive fps gamer, i was hoping that by purchasing a 16:9 monitor at 1920x1080, it would be able to run 1280x720 at 75hz through dvi in order to be a closer match to my super fast old school crt, and well, it can do half... ie. that resolution its not actually supported in the user guide above, which seems weird considering it is a direct downscale of the image in aspect ratio, meaning that the monitor "thinks" its running at the res above or below it, or sometimes native res depending on the application, forcing hz back to 60. That and even after installing drivers those resolutions are still available to choose from. This is the same for all non-supported resolutions. So for the time being i have stuck with using 1920x1080
My other annoyance is that 720p content via hdmi (what i primarily bought the monitor for) is really blurry until you get 1m away from the monitor, whilst 1080p is perfect
Normally id think to expect this, but it scales lower res games through dvi on my PC fine and they are sharp
VERDICT
On the outter face this truely is a fantastic monitor, and definitely the one to get over common its latest rivals; the asus vh226h and benq e2202hd (if all the reviews are anything to go by at least) and i do recommend this to anybody. But it's only fair i point out its bad aspects too, and supporting only 1 16:9 resolution (its native 1080p one) but supporting several 4:3 and 16:10 resolutions, you may like me, feel a little hard done by
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