Great monitor
I bought this monitor open box, as-is, and it has one dead pixel; although, I rarely notice it (only when watching movies full screen). Great resolution, clear image, and overall great, especially after 7 years of an old ViewSonic 17" CRT. Get one new and you'll be pleased.

Works beautiifully with MacBook 13"
It makes the MacBook 13" portable useful as a desktop computer. The price was reasonable, we like it a lot, and we have had no complaints at all.

ViewSonic 20" Monitor
Response and resolution are great. Am able to view multiple windows simultaneously with no trouble.

Great value
Looks and works great. Has the features of much more expensive monitors including high resolution, fast response time, analogue or digital and great contrast. A super value for the price and no dead pixels.

Great Monitor!
I wanted a larger monitor for photography mostly. This ViewSonic monitor is not getting much play on Amazon for some reason. They make great quality monitors! 20" has 1680 x 1050 resolution. 22" monitors have the same, which means the pictures get stretched a little bit to fit. Its OK, but for me the 20" is fine. If you are interested in 22", I would definitely give ViewSonic consideration.

Main reasons for purchasing this monitor:

1) ViewSonic is reliable. This is my second VS purchase.
2) 20" for the resolution quality
3) Has 1000-1, static and 2000-1, dynamic contrast ratio. Means if your just poking around on the internet and looking at pictures, the picture quality will be outstanding. Static is for non-moving and dynamic is for moving basically.
4) 0.258mm pixel pitch- For some reason this spec is not listed.
5) Supports both analog and digital signals
6) Energy Star compliant
7) Very reasonable price- I purchased through Amazon and did not really price shop.

I have a 5-year-old computer and the hardest part of my purchase was finding a video card compatible with my machine. Be careful about making sure the specs match your computer, especially if you're using older equipment. If your computer uses DDR memory you will have a hard time finding a video card that will give resolution 1680 x 1050 in digital. Analog will work, but make sure to understand the specs. Mine is in analog and the picture is great. ViewSonic recommends a video card with 1680 x1050 resolution and refresh rate of 60Hz. Instructions say maxium refresh rate is 75Hz. Higher will damage the monitor.
Last thing- No manufacture will honor a warranty claim if you spray the monitor with, whatever. ViewSonic says in the brochure to use water and dampen a clean cloth. You should always use a cloth designed for glass. The monitor comes with a clear piece of plastic that I'm keeping on it. Some reflection but I use in a dimly lit room so reflections are negligible.

Eye Candy
This monitor produces the most beautiful color I've ever seen! I love the deep reds. There is also no edge bleed, and I view it in total darkness most of the time.

I agree with the above reviewer, you should turn off the dynamic contrast. It does more harm than good.

There is one more setting you may want to try. DVDs looked terrible at first. The colors were extremely exaggerated, the whites were blown out, and the highlights were pixilated. I tried all the adjustments on my video card and DVD software to no avail. Then I decided to read the manual (what a concept!). It turned out to be the default color setting of 6500K. I set it to sRGB, and my jaw hit the floor. It put my Sony GDM-FW900 to shame. Just beautiful!

Close, but no cigar. This monitor shows artifacts that where previously masked by my FW900. I spent the next few evenings tweaking FFDshow, and now I have a picture that far exceeds my expectations.

I waited a long time for an LED backlit monitor to become available. I'm glad I waited!

ViewSonic VLED221wm
ViewSonic's VLED221wm 22-inch LCD is the first LED-backlit display to grace our Lab, and we were anxious to put the technology to the test. LCD monitors typically sport cold cathode fluorescent backlighting, which can be less than uniform, and because it's always on in the background, it can impair a screen's ability to produce a true black. With LEDs, the screen is backlit with a grid of lights that can be turned on and off as needed. Sure enough, the 1680x1050 VLED221wm was capable of a black that exceeded that of any other LCD we've tested--but the result was actually overkill.

Even after we cranked the brightness to the max, we were unable to elicit an acceptable separation of values at the dark end of the spectrum in our DisplayMate tests. This lack of separation resulted in a noticeable loss of detail in games and movies.

The VLED221wm also notably boasts a 118 percent color gamut--based on NTSE broadcast standards--whereas LCDs have traditionally achieved a 72 percent color gamut, and more recently 92 percent. The expanded color gamut allows the VLED221wm to display extraordinarily saturated colors; the word "vibrant" doesn't do justice to the eye-punishing reds, greens, and blues this monitor spits out. In our tests, it made photos appear unnatural and game graphics looked over-processed; however, we appreciated the added vibrancy in movies.

By default, the monitor comes with its Dynamic Contrast feature on, which adjusts the backlighting on the screen according to the content being displayed to achieve the darkest black and brightest white whenever possible. But the implementation here is pretty poor--during our movie test, the light faded in and out during different scenes. Fortunately, the feature can be disabled, although we had to dig through the manual to find out how--hold the monitor's up-arrow button for a few seconds.

Given its spendy price point compared to fellow 22-inch monitors, ViewSonic's VLED221wm just isn't a wise choice. The concept of "true black" is a strong selling point, but not when it results in perceptible quality loss.


+ It does have an 118% color gamut. And the blacks are indeed very black.


- Too dark, with garish colors.


Verdict: 5 out of 10

Viewsonic 19" Monitor
Just as advertised. Good price. Good deal. Good picture for a good price.

Looking at this monitor's output this very moment
Sniff. The trusty CRT monitor died. But, that's okay. The dern' thing weighed pert-near as much as my lard-laden old lady and was a bear to tote around every time the landlord kicked us out for not paying the rent. The monitor, the old lady can move herself.

I ain't getting any younger and feared spinal damage every time I moved that HUGE CRT-type monitor.

Needing a new monitor I, your humble writer, opted for a much lighter flat panel LCD-type to avoid permanent bodily injury when toting time comes around. I can lift this monitor with just one paw. Heck, the critter weighs only 10 or 11 pounds or so, about as much as the old lady eats at one sitting. I could carry this monitor all day long!!!

And, its diminutive size (golly, I've wanted to use that word 'diminutive' for a long time), its small "foot print" atop the desk, frees up a lot of room for udder things.

What a thrill it was to remove the monitor from bondage. Yanking it out of its carton was easy!!! So unlike the CRT behemoths of the past. I was liking this critter already. Then, after plopping it atop the desk, it was plug-in-the-cables time and poke a couple buttons to allow those electrons to roam, through the electronic brain the monitor was intimately coupled to and the monitor.

Lo!!!! Lights blinked, fans whirred (in the electronic brain) and the monitor displayed what a monitor displays!!! Right from the start the monitor performed as a monitor should. No need to poke or prod or download this or adjust that or access drivers or smack the electronic brain to compel it to feed the monitor; nope.

Plug n' Play, my brethren.

The brain uses the XP O/S and the brain and monitor mated wondrously.

I didn't need to download the software from the CD-ROM that came with the monitor. Maybe I am missing a function or two that would arise IF I accessed the CD-ROM but I am a simple man with simple wants and some proclaim me to be simple-minded but I prefer simple. That's why I hitched my wagon to the old lady. She's pretty simple, too.

Anyway, if it ain't broke don't fix it is my mantra.

From the get-go the monitor functioned properly.

I had to make a couple adjustments to lower the brightness level and change the display size, typical stuff I have done with every monitor used.

And, as with every monitor that has resided within the shanty atop the barren blizzard-swept tornado-ridden plains of the cultural backwater of Nebraska, I found the controls to not be the most intuitive or user-friendly. I could have read the manual but..... what can I say. Poke and prod and eventually I had the setting controls on the monitor's side figgered' out.

Sitting here, feeling the below-zero outside air wrapping its frigid fingers around the shanty, finding every minute and not-so-minute opening to enter and attack my dainty body, the non-forced-air floor heater valiantly attempting to keep the shanty's interior at a life-sustaining warmth level, and barely doing so, with a re-run of the X-Files upon the TV, I marvel at the clear and crisp monitor's visual output.

Text is very easy to read, large and small. Pictures are clear and sharp. The electronic brain has an Intel MoBoard with on-board video to provide the output for the monitor. No fancy video card for me. Some may consider that a limitation but if it is, that says a lot for this monitor'' output.

If the visual aspect of this monitor is so mighty fine with the so-so input it seems reasonable that a higher-quality input would result in even better performance. I guess. Seems logical to me. Asked the old lady her opinion but she just gave me her typical blank look. Ask her about food, though, and she could talk for hours.

No high-falutin' technical-type "talk" from me buckaroos and buckarettes. You can find that stuff elsewhere.

In a nutshell. By golly, I like what I see on this monitor's screen. Best dern' monitor that's ever been in the shanty. Light, portable, great rendering of text and pictures. I am so gosh dern' tickled with this monitor I almost wet myself. And that's saying a lot.

Time will tell if this was a good buy. No way to determine product longevity until longevity occurs. Hey!!! The old lady just muttered something....she says it takes time for longevity to occur. She's a bright one!!!!

You can see and download info from the ViewSonic Web site, including the owner's manual. Those folks have a decent warranty:

"ViewSonic LCD displays are warranted for 3 years for all parts including the light source and 3 years for all labor from the date of the first consumer purchase."

You have to be the original buyer, the warranty is not transferable.

With time and continued proper functioning, my 5-star rating will continue in full-force. As for now, the rating is for ease of set-up, connectibility, light weight and a darn fine rendering of text and pics.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it, unless sumpthin' changes my opinion.

Great Price for Great Monitor

Once again, I turned to Amazon to make this purchase due to their competitiveness in pricing. ease of ordering process and quick delivery (even on standard shipping!).

Checked many other websites but they (Amazon) offered at best price.
No problems with product once delivered.

Great Monitor!
Well i bought this about a year ago and no problems so far...
i scratched it when i was rearranging my room...it bugs me alot
the speakers on the monitor are not good at all...their good if you dont have and speakers though :p

ViewSonic VG1930wm
Excellent picture at a great price. The screen brightness is awesome. I love the flexibility of the stand height, swivel and tilt adjustments. The only downfall is the integrated speakers. I ended up turning them off since they were barely audible. The computer's mono speaker was 15 times louder. For stereo quality sound, I definitely would plan on using external speaker system. ViewSonic should not even bother putting speakers in the unit.

ViewSonic VG1930 19" Widescreen LCD Monitor
The VG1930 has a big bright reasonably tsght screen when used in the VGA mode. The screen really comes to life in the digital mode. Speakers are not the greatest but adiquet. Good buy for the price.

GREAT RESOLUTION
I love the graphics capability. I Also like the Ergonomic stand. But the speakers leave a lot to be desired.

A great monitor, but beware of resolution issues
Got this View Sonic as a Father's Day gift. The wide screen offers an entirely new experience.



However, beware that according to the manufacturer, the optimal screen resolution is 1440x900. My pc is about 8 years old and I can't achieve that high a resolution (without, I'm told, investing in a new graphics card).



The resolution I currently have the monitor set at is okay, but the text appears furry or fuzzy. Since mostly what I do is read/write, this is bothersome.