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this is a 19inch flatpanel. 25ms response time and 500:1 contrast ratio according to viewsonics website.
I love this flatpanel. I don't play 200+FPS games though. But watching tv or a dvd is just amazingly crisp and sharp and no ghosting whatsoever.
The beep you hear when you touch the buttons i'm sure you read about and went "Er thats annoying" can be turned off and i haven't read a review that mentioned that!
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You can also lock the OSD display and you can lock te power button. IN a review i read it says you can accidently touch those and mess it your display. But none of the reviews mentions that you can lock those even the power button so you don't accidently turn it on or off or messing with the OSD settings since the buttons are touch sensitive while moving things around.
All this is in the manual which is on the cd you install.
</update>
Playing icewindale II is awsome. No problems. Played The Matrix DVD on my PS2 going through composite and it was very crisp and bright. I don't play any FPS games either though.
It has built in speakers but if you already have a speakers you don't really need it. I'm sure it would be great for offices but for home you don't need the 3watt speakers built into it. I wish viewsonic made a non-speaker and mic version. Would be a little cheaper.
When i first got it, i tapped the screen to see if it had a glass covering because i read on a review that it didn't. This model does infact have a glass antiglare covering on it.
I got this at newegg for 749, with shipping and rush came to 766.99. Ordered it on friday and i got it on tuesday! Works perfectly and 0 dead pixels.
The response of this flatpanel is amazing. Referring to shutting off and on - the time it takes for that. I worked with dell flatpanels a lot and it usually takes 30 seconds for it to kick out of standby. My flatpanel takes about 3 seconds. Infact it is faster then my CRT when first turning on. With my crt i would turn on the monitor and then my computer and by the time the crt kicked in the RAID BIOS would show missing the post. With my flatpanel, I turn it on and then my computer and i see everything my computer has posted for a split second, then shows the RAID BIOS and then loads windows. So i would say it's about 1-2 seconds faster then a CRT as far as that. Which i fine unusual for flatpanels. I find that they are slower to start up.
as for the .29 dotpitch. If you arn't an artist i wouldn't worry about it. I've painted on it using yahoos paint thing and it's fine. I've used photoshop and it is fine. I've scanned images and it looks fine. So unless you have fine tuned eyes and is an artist i wouldn't worry about the dotpitch. If you are an artist you shouldn't be looking at flatpanels anyway. all flatpanels have a high dotpitch anyway. And dotpitch is not a becnhmark to measure quality either as flatpanels and crt's uses completely different technologies in my own personal opinion with no facts to back that up.
I love it! check it out for yourself! I'm not sure about any other model. I did hear that the VX700 is very similar to that of the vx900. I'm not so sure about the vx2000 though! It is twice as expensive i don't think it is worth it for that one extra inch. Trust me 19inch is fricken huge! I never expected it to be this big either. The screen itself i mean.
I give it a 5/5 i love it this much. Haven't had a single problem other than my user error problem. Your suppose to turn on the flatpanel first and then the computer in order for it to autotune. I just plugged it in. I tried rebooting but that did nothing. FInally i turned it off and back on and the screen autoadjusted for the right cable (DVI). That was my fault though for not reading the manual.
Hope this helps for some of you. You can get it at newegg and see pictures and what not too. it is the viewsonic VX900.
I hope you enjoyed my personal review!
Life is irrelivent and irrational.
<A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?id=9933" target="_new"> My Rig </A><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by xxsk8er101xx on 02/13/03 12:50 PM.</EM></FONT></P>
I love this flatpanel. I don't play 200+FPS games though. But watching tv or a dvd is just amazingly crisp and sharp and no ghosting whatsoever.
The beep you hear when you touch the buttons i'm sure you read about and went "Er thats annoying" can be turned off and i haven't read a review that mentioned that!
<update>
You can also lock the OSD display and you can lock te power button. IN a review i read it says you can accidently touch those and mess it your display. But none of the reviews mentions that you can lock those even the power button so you don't accidently turn it on or off or messing with the OSD settings since the buttons are touch sensitive while moving things around.
All this is in the manual which is on the cd you install.
</update>
Playing icewindale II is awsome. No problems. Played The Matrix DVD on my PS2 going through composite and it was very crisp and bright. I don't play any FPS games either though.
It has built in speakers but if you already have a speakers you don't really need it. I'm sure it would be great for offices but for home you don't need the 3watt speakers built into it. I wish viewsonic made a non-speaker and mic version. Would be a little cheaper.
When i first got it, i tapped the screen to see if it had a glass covering because i read on a review that it didn't. This model does infact have a glass antiglare covering on it.
I got this at newegg for 749, with shipping and rush came to 766.99. Ordered it on friday and i got it on tuesday! Works perfectly and 0 dead pixels.
The response of this flatpanel is amazing. Referring to shutting off and on - the time it takes for that. I worked with dell flatpanels a lot and it usually takes 30 seconds for it to kick out of standby. My flatpanel takes about 3 seconds. Infact it is faster then my CRT when first turning on. With my crt i would turn on the monitor and then my computer and by the time the crt kicked in the RAID BIOS would show missing the post. With my flatpanel, I turn it on and then my computer and i see everything my computer has posted for a split second, then shows the RAID BIOS and then loads windows. So i would say it's about 1-2 seconds faster then a CRT as far as that. Which i fine unusual for flatpanels. I find that they are slower to start up.
as for the .29 dotpitch. If you arn't an artist i wouldn't worry about it. I've painted on it using yahoos paint thing and it's fine. I've used photoshop and it is fine. I've scanned images and it looks fine. So unless you have fine tuned eyes and is an artist i wouldn't worry about the dotpitch. If you are an artist you shouldn't be looking at flatpanels anyway. all flatpanels have a high dotpitch anyway. And dotpitch is not a becnhmark to measure quality either as flatpanels and crt's uses completely different technologies in my own personal opinion with no facts to back that up.
I love it! check it out for yourself! I'm not sure about any other model. I did hear that the VX700 is very similar to that of the vx900. I'm not so sure about the vx2000 though! It is twice as expensive i don't think it is worth it for that one extra inch. Trust me 19inch is fricken huge! I never expected it to be this big either. The screen itself i mean.
I give it a 5/5 i love it this much. Haven't had a single problem other than my user error problem. Your suppose to turn on the flatpanel first and then the computer in order for it to autotune. I just plugged it in. I tried rebooting but that did nothing. FInally i turned it off and back on and the screen autoadjusted for the right cable (DVI). That was my fault though for not reading the manual.
Hope this helps for some of you. You can get it at newegg and see pictures and what not too. it is the viewsonic VX900.
I hope you enjoyed my personal review!
Life is irrelivent and irrational.
<A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?id=9933" target="_new"> My Rig </A><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by xxsk8er101xx on 02/13/03 12:50 PM.</EM></FONT></P>
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