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(5 customer reviews) 6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Cheap, not up to Viewsonic standards.,
February 25, 2007 Nancy "Snowflake" (Jax Beach) - See all my reviews
This review is from: ViewSonic VA903b 19-inch LCD Monitor (Electronics)
This is a low end model. If you are buying your first LCD and arent a heavy graphics user, this may work for you. But moving up from a Viewsonic 17" model, I am very disappointed in the sharpness, brightness, and color rendering on this "VGA Only" display.
I should have bought the Viewsonic VA912B with DVI, its even listed for $30 less than this model. Ugh!
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
decent but not that great,
December 23, 2006 This review is from: ViewSonic VA903b 19-inch LCD Monitor (Electronics)
This is my first LCD monitor and I'm not that impressed (though going from a 17" to 19" is better, obviously). I bought it at Fry's Electronics for [...] (before [...] mail-in rebate) but it will be going back.
Forget about gaming with this monitor--if you need completely black/dark areas, the natural "built-in" dark grey glare will be VERY annoying. No amount of contrast, brightness, and/or gamma adjustment helps either. White bleeding along the top edge doesn't help either. I don't know if the 300 cd/m2 brightness is good but, I figure, the higher the better.
Also, there's no DVI plug so the picture quality isn't that great. I don't know if the .294mm dot pitch has to do with this, also.
I tried dorking with the multiple monitor thing in WinXP but the monitor wouldn't work at 2048x1024 resolution after switching from 2 displays to 1--and no 15-second auto-revert--bug.
No wattage usage in poor excuse for a manual (3 pages per each...Read more
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
not great,
August 17, 2007 Anonymous (Yardley, PA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: ViewSonic VA903b 19-inch LCD Monitor (Electronics)
My monitor came without any cables of any kind: no power cable and no video cable. I called ViewSonic and spoke to someone who said it happens "a lot"; she took my e-mail address and said they'd send me replacement cables, but that should never have happened in the first place. (I own the necessary cables and was able to get the monitor working.)
Input is VGA only. That's really not very impressive. Most LCD monitors in this day and age allow for digital input.
I don't find that the brightness is uniform, either. There are bright areas and dark areas. No adjustable stand, and not much of a tilting or swiveling radius.
It's a 19-inch LCD monitor for a bargain price, and I enjoy the very large screen, but I can't call this an excellent product.
