PC Hardware : ViewSonic VA2226w 22-inch Wide LCD Computer Monitor (21.6 Viewable) Digital/Analog |
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Rating: - * Great!! ... This is the second Viewsonic monitor that we have bought. Both are great. The wide screen is the best for the gamer in the family, or just showing off the pictures I have taken. I would recommend this monitor to anyone that wants a high quality product for a reasonable price. Rating: - * Very pleased ... Got this monitor after looking around for quite a while. I upgraded from a 15" flat screen to this one and I'm very pleased with it! No DV cable came with it, but it still looked great straight out of the box. Very small amount of light bleeding on top and bottom of screen can be seen on black screens, but hardly noticeable and not an issue for me. This is an awesome monitor, and a great deal at this price too! Rating: - * good for the value, even more than good ... Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3ACIYX34T7ZPY I have this viewsonic lcd just several days ago. I am impressed of the picture quality. i was testing it with HD movie clips and it works well. response rate is acceptable (5ms is enough) eventhough 2ms is better. the drawbacks are we cannot adjust the height, limited tilt, and it doesn't come with DVI-D cable. Video review is using D_Sub connection and still has plastic cover, max resolution. Rating:  - * Great monitor at a great price ... This is a very good monitor for the price. I considered the VX2240W from Viewsonic (for about $100 more), but determined it wasn't worth it. Maybe I'm just cheap. ;-) It seems like it may be the same LCD panel as with the VA2226W but has slightly less bezel coverage and comes with a DVI-D cable. Too bad the VA2226W doesn't come with that cable, but I had an extra lying around. CORRECTION TO SOME MIS-INFORMATION ABOUT REFRESH RATES -- SpamFreeOrDie says the 60Hz rate is too low, but I'm not sure what that means for an LCD monitor. All of my LCD run at the manufacturer's suggested 60Hz and look great; no flicker like if it was a CRT with such a low refresh (or scan) rate. I don't know what SpamFreeOrDie is seeing with his LCD monitor, but LCD and CRT are quite different in this regard. LCD at 60Hz is just fine. CRT need a faster refresh rate due to the characteristics of the phosphor on the glass tube. Whereas, an LCD pixel will keep it's image intensity until the next refresh, a phosphor pixel will immediately begin to dim as the electron beam passes it. That passing of the electron beam is at the scan rate (also called, refresh rate). With a CRT a too slow refresh rate will cause flicker. Personally, I set it to at least 85 Hz on my CRT. Refer to this article for more information on refresh rate and scan lines: [...] You are not going to see any flicker like with a CRT at such a low refresh, nor will you have a sharpness problem unless you are not displaying at the native resolution. I guess that is the main issue with LCD; like SpamFreeOrDie says, they are best viewed at their native resolution. So if your video card cannot handle the 1680x1050 native resolution of this monitor, you should consider another monitor. Many 19" LCD have a native resolution of 1280x1024, (which isn't widescreen), which is very doable by most video cards manufactured in the last last 3 or 4 years. The response time IS important with LCD monitors (as with CRT). That is the time that it takes a pixel to change to the next color (or intensity). If the response time is too slow, the image will ghost; that is, you will see trails of the old image as the object moves across the screen. The 5 msec response time of this monitor is just fine; even for fast action games. Personally, I wouldn't get an LCD monitor with more than an 8 msec response time. Rating:  - * Poor refresh rate at native resolution - take a pass on this one ... I was recently issued a Viewsonic VA2226W at work to use with my 15" MacBook Pro, as an upgrade to the Lenovo L192 19" LCD monitor I'd been using (native resolution: 1440 x 900 @ 85 Hz., same native resolution as the MBP). The VA2226W has impressive specs, is very bright, and gives more screen real estate than the L192. However, after three days, I'm going back to the Lenovo. Why? At its native resolution (which is the only resolution at which an LCD looks good) it can only manage a vertical refresh rate of 60 Hz., which is slow enough that I can see the scan lines, and after three days with this thing, my eyes are ready to fall out. Note that for someone who mostly works with bright or white backgrounds, such as email and web browsing, this would be less of a problem (although even those are less sharp at a 60 Hz. refresh), however, I'm a software engineer and I do most of my work in a shell, with white or colored text on a black background. Those are the exact conditions where the poor refresh rate is most noticeable. In summary, this would be a very good monitor if it could do 1610 x 1050 @ 75 Hz., but since it can't, my advice would be that if you're looking for a 1680 x 1050 LCD, keep looking until you find one that can do it at 75 Hz. You may pay more for it, but trust me, it will be worth it. Apart from the refresh rate issue, this is an excellent monitor, but the refresh rate issue is a big deal because LCDs run at resolutions other than native lose a lot of quality, unlike a CRT. So if you're thinking "So what, I really only need 1440 x 900" then buy a 1440 x 900 native monitor (which will probably be a 19"). The VA2226W does not look good at all at 1440 x 900. It can do it at 75H, but because that's below its native resolution, you lose a lot of quality. |
Features include a nine-digit display, 65 digital voice prompts and/or audio alerts for radar, laser, and SWS detection. The Express 916 also remembers preferred settings, and includes instant-on/pulsed radar warning. Automatic and manual muting of audio alerts is provided for convenience, while a city/highway switch reduces the frequency of false warnings in densely populated urban areas.
Brackets are included for visor or windshield mounting, as are a spare fuse and a coiled six-foot power cord.
