ASUS VH198T 19-Inch Widescreen LED Monitor

Comment: Item received within two days outstanding shipping service, the monitor was packaged very well and was in perfect operating condition. I have since hooked the monitor to my cpu and it works perfectly. a very good buy price was exceptional and I would use the company again.

Comment: This is an excellent monitor at an affordable price by a top manufacturer, Asus. I paid $125.for mine. It has an LED backlight, rather than the usual fluorescent. This feature is usually found only on top end monitors, and means extea brightness and reliability.

I was disappointed that the instruction sheet was tiny and in about 50 languages, but I figured it out. Just a minor item, and does not detract from the quality and performance.

I'd recommend this monitor to a friend, or anyone else.

Comment: It's advertised as a monitor and will also work as one but you will not find USB ports and the screen hurts my eyes a bit more than other computer monitors I use (I tend to sit pretty close to computer monitors). Very good price, though, hence the 3 stars.

Comment: We have had this monitor a little over two weeks. The first couple of days were very frustrating. We are not extremely knowledgeable about computers, but from the previous reviews we had read, assumed it would be just a matter of hooking the new monitor up to our computer and we'd be ready to go. Not so in our case. We have a Compaq computer that is about 5 years old. When we hooked up the Asus monitor, everything on the screen was distorted and hard to look at, almost like when you're in safe mode, but not quite that bad. We weren't sure how to proceed, so tried to call Asus for assistance. Our first attempt at contacting them, we were put on hold for a long period of time, then finally got a recorded message that all agents were busy and someone would call us back. No one ever did. The next day we tried calling Asus again. This time a pleasant female answered the phone, but was not knowledgeable and could not help, so attempted to transfer us to someone who could. Again, a recorded message. The third time we called back and got the same pleasant female who this time transferred us to a male agent. The only help he offered was: "The problem is not with your monitor, it's with your computer and you'll have to call them." I asked this man if it might have anything to do with changing the screen resolution and again, he replied in a condescending tone, "Maybe, but you'll have to contact Compaq, I can't help you." After all this, we realized that Asus doesn't even have an 800 number and all this was on our dime! I didn't know how to change the resolution, but after the frustration with Asus decided to try to figure it out by myself, which after a little research, I did. After several attempts at changing the resolution, we finally got the screen to look normal. Is this a nice monitor? Now that we have it figured out, I would say yes, it is a very nice monitor for the price. Would I recommend it to others? If you are computer savvy, yes. If you need to rely on a good customer service for help, I would have to say no.

Comment: Purchased this as an upgrade with a new computer. The LED feature is really great; crisp, clear, with good brightness. However, the aspect ratio of the widescreen just renders this monitor unusable for me. I obviously ordered the wrong monitor. This is a very good screen, but be aware that the widescreen aspect ratio may not be what you want for your system. Hooked up my old LCD 17" and all is right with the world! :-)