The DoubleSight DS1700 Gives Your PC Double Vision

Ergonomics

This is an area where we must be merciless in evaluating a professional-caliber monitor. If you are using your monitor 10 hours a day, 5 days a week, you want it comfortable, user-friendly and painless to operate. Fortunately, the DS1700 fared pretty well in this area.

The stand is really well designed, and setting up the DS1700 was fairly easy. You do not need any tools to put the stand on and attach the screen to it. Once that is done, you only have to plug in the cables and power.

One issue is that the stand does not work when you have only one monitor on it; you need the second one to balance the weight and make it stable. The stand itself is adjustable in height, and you can adjust the angle between the two panels with a reasonable amount of headroom. On the embedded software side, the on-screen display (OSD) is well-made, clear and feature-filled. The buttons on the front of the device make the OSD easy to navigate.

Overall, I was pleased with the usability of the DS1700.

Features

I have one small nit to pick here. There is a dual VGA/DVI input on both panels, with each basically treated as a separate device. We would have preferred an integrated power unit. The DS1700 still uses external transformers, although I do not see any reason for that. There are no speakers or USB connectors, either.