For crying out loud!
ViewSonic’s 17-inch offering has a plasticy body, devoid of any of the fancy glossy materials I’m used to seeing. I ran into problems at every step of our test—the first stop being DisplayMate, where the poor contrast became apparent. Also the geometry tests, normally a breeze for most LCDs were a pain here, I had issues with line and point resolution. Then came the color tests and (sigh) by this time I nearly gave up—the performance in the shade ramp tests was terrible particualrly with the 256 shade ramp, where this monitor is not capable of many variations in intensity of the same color. Needless to say it’s not very suitable at gaming and movies too. Neither is the text rendition as clear as other monitors. Performance doesn’t come cheap, a known analogy, but its corollary is also true—what you don’t pay for, you don’t get.
ViewSonic’s 17-inch offering has a plasticy body, devoid of any of the fancy glossy materials I’m used to seeing. I ran into problems at every step of our test—the first stop being DisplayMate, where the poor contrast became apparent. Also the geometry tests, normally a breeze for most LCDs were a pain here, I had issues with line and point resolution. Then came the color tests and (sigh) by this time I nearly gave up—the performance in the shade ramp tests was terrible particualrly with the 256 shade ramp, where this monitor is not capable of many variations in intensity of the same color. Needless to say it’s not very suitable at gaming and movies too. Neither is the text rendition as clear as other monitors. Performance doesn’t come cheap, a known analogy, but its corollary is also true—what you don’t pay for, you don’t get.
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