ViewSonic VX2035wm 20-inch Wide LCD Monitor

Replacing a 4 year old 19 inch sony trinitron, I was skeptical about an LCD being as crsip and as clear as my old Sony glass crt. It is better which really surprised me. This monitor, once I got the settings straight blows it away as far as clarity and crispness. I always like to tweak the image settings on monitors from their factory settings as I always think they are too bright and contrasty in my opinion. This monitor comes with both a VGA and DVI cable and I connect it to the DVI input on my Nvidia 6200 card and adjusted the resolution down a notch to 1440x900 as things were too small at the default resolution of 1680. Make sure your video card can accept these resolutions and it helps if you have a DVI input on your card too as this will also give you a digital signal. The colors are nice and text is crisp and DVD's and media files play smooth and sharp. I love the widescreen aspect of this monitor best as this gives me so much more room. The only downsides to me with this...Read more

I have always used CRT monitors, but decided to finally upgrade to an LCD monitor. After doing alot of research on price vs quality, I found this one to be the best. There's no 'ghosting' at all, and the picture quality is phenomenal. The sound could be a little better, but for built in speakers its not too bad I guess.

Pros:
Quality
Finish
Sturdy build

Cons:
Speaker volume/quality

All in all, I would certainly recommend this product to those that already have speakers and who are looking for a great monitor for a decent price!

This is my first LCD monitor. Previously, I used a highly rated 17" Iiyama monitor. After using this LCD monitor for some time I find that I don't miss my CRT based monitor at all. The images and video performance of this monitor are just great. Other then the fact that I have a widescreen and more real estate, I forget I am viewing another monitor. The picture is quite comparable to the CRT. I popped in my Superbit Spiderman DVD to check out the performance and it looked very good, at least I was pleased. I found the default resolution of 1680x1050 a bit too high for text viewing so I settled on 1280x1024. There are quite a number of supported resolutions.

I debated on whether on not to go to widescreen for my computer, and now I'm glad I did. Most programs take advantage of the widescreen. Excel charts span the entire width and many Web sites will also stretch to fill the entire width so you don't have to scroll so much to read the text. Outlook fills the entire screen...Read more