ACER V173B ET.BV3RP.001 17-Inch LCD Monitor

Comment: Very nice for text work.

Be sure to use the supplied VGA cable. The ferrite filter cores on the cable ("blobs" near each end) are necessary to maintain signal quality for a sharp display. A plain VGA cable I tried produced very blurry video.

Viewing angle is narrow if you unmount it from the stand and use another stand for portrait mode.

Excellent value.

Comment: I ordered this monitor to replace the last CRT in the house. I have a HP L1710 17 inch at work that is great, and the dying CRT was 17 inch so I figured I'd go cheap and get this Acer with free shipping. Also the resolution matched the highest resolution on the old desktop that it is plugged into. I think the 1710 is a slightly better screen, but not so much that it matters. The Acer monitor is just fine, and we have bunches of Acers at work with no problems. The problem for me is that now I wish I would have gone 19 or 20 inch. I had a Viewsonic 20 inch widescreen before, and it quit working on my computer, and for some reason will only work on our Toshiba netbook now, and not on any of the other six computers in the house. Will never buy a Viewsonic product again. Anyway, aside from being too cheap to up the size, I recommend this monitor. By the way, it came with a SVGA cable, which I needed since the old CRT had its cable built in.

Comment: This monitor is not feature rich, but it is affordable, has good quality and has the "back to basics" appeal. If you are a hold out with the old CRT and didn't want to spend much money on an LCD, this would be a perfectly fine option.

Comment: Decent monitor for XP or Vista. The colors and pictures are very sharp and bright. I would not recommended it for Windows 7. I had some font issues with a new machine which were fairly difficult to resolve.

Comment: I don't know if this is isolated to the one I got, but the screen flickers and there are ripples of horizontal lines that go up and down the screen whenever you move the mouse.

I am returning it.