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Thread ID: 139709	2015-06-15 07:07:00	Viewsonic or other brand 21.5" Monitor	Myth (110)	Press F1

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1402723	2015-06-15 07:07:00	Just wondering how these rate.Buying a monitor for SWMBO - purpose is general use, office. No gaming (other than FB flash games). Needs to have VGA or DVI, HDMI optional (but may be worth having)I note there a couple of varieties of Viewsonic floating round... any major differences I should be looking for?Will consider other brand around $200-300 mark	Myth (110)
1402724	2015-06-15 08:05:00	I've got a viewsonic 22 inch here. It's full HD. It's got HDMI, VGA and DVI and audio in/out It still goes but theres some light bottom left, that you can see while using it. I dont know what caused it. It's in the wardrobe at the mo	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1402725	2015-06-15 08:15:00	I bought a cheap Veon TV from The Warehouse, 27.5" less than $200 to replace my old computer screen (vga) and to act as a TV if I ever get the need to watch TV. I can even plug my laptop to the HDMI and use it for that. To be honest, it impresses me that I'd have to say, it does the job nicely and am considering buying more. It may vary depending on your graphics card and resolution you would like to acheive. I have also a Viewsonic VS13239, which did the job OK but, the flat touch buttons on the front can eventually stick and you get the OSD screen flashing or stuck on the screen. Possibly marginal warp around the corner caused it? Not something you want to get, but took over a year till it happened. Cheers, KK	Kame (312)
1402726	2015-06-15 08:40:00	YUp I'm using a Veon here too. For the PC, bluray and Xbox. It's good enough. Thankfully the warehouse fixed the power fault it had a few mths ago now	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1402727	2015-06-15 22:36:00	You cant really say this brand is allways better than that brand . Depends on the model, price, production run etc etc They mostly use display panels made by other companies, so..... Just get whatever famous name brand has the best warranty ie 3 year ZERO PIXEL . They can change panel type several times during long production runs, so reviews are almost meaningless. Happened with my Samsung many years back, excellent initial reviews, then they started using noticeably lower quality panels in that model (thats what I got) Just personally , I wouldnt get a Warehouse monitor or TV, unless you are willing to put up with worse than normal reliability I have a Warehouse TV, its cheap, its cheap, its cheap > OK for a hardly used TV , that all. And yes it has a fault (stuck bright pixel)	1101 (13337)
1402728	2015-06-15 22:42:00	Been using Viewsonic for years, always had good reliable service from them. With any fault including a single bright / Dead pixel, they replace the monitor. Heres a "carrot" for Viewsonic - VP and VG series monitors now come with 4 year warranty. (previously 3 Year).	wainuitech (129)
1402729	2015-06-15 23:14:00	I've been a bit of a cheapskate with my monitors in the past and bought AOC because they were cheaper than most at the size I wanted and I've had a good run with them. I've bought one Samsung 24" TV to use as a monitor mainly because full HD TV's under 32" were hard to find at a reasonable price at the time and it's pretty good too but it's not better than the much cheaper AOC monitor I also have. This time round I went with an LG model and it's the nicest of the 3, but likely only because it's much newer and the first LED backlit monitor I've owned. I don't worry too much about brand myself but I do prefer a proper monitor to a cheap TV, although they can do a decent Job TV's are generally optimised for video and don't always do a good job of text etc for PC use. If you do use a TV and use an HDMI input make sure to set it for PC mode or it can be pretty horrible. Not all TV's have the option and some don't make it clear but it makes a big difference if they do. On my Samsung TV it has an option to name the input with no indication it changes anything but if you name it as a PC it sharpens up considerably for text and icons. If you don't do this you can have over/under scan issues, fuzzy text, and over saturated colours designed to make TV viewing look nice.	dugimodo (138)
1402730	2015-06-15 23:18:00	One thing to watch with using TV as monitor. Some don't display POST and BIOS screens correctly, ours is an example, a Visione from Hardly Normal So if I need to adjust anything in BIOS setup I have to connect it to a proper monitor. This is using the VGA (D-SUB 15)	KarameaDave (15222)
1402731	2015-06-16 04:15:00	If buying new, I would recommend a good model line from a big name manufacturer. The cheaper lines are usually just re-badged garbage brands. Personally, my LCDs are all 2nd hand specials, mostly dead, that I have resurrected with a power supply overhaul and\or new backlights. Potentially more reliable now than they were new, and still cheaper.	Agent_24 (57)
1402732	2015-06-17 07:14:00	Cheaper models are re-badged big name manufacturers. Well in the case of Veon from the warehouse which inside one TV I pulled apart were LG boards and I managed to get the part from LG because TV servicers told me they won't fix warehouse rubbish because imo the cost they would charge, I could have bought a new one, the part I bought was 8% the value of the tv, worth it when it's outside warranty. In fact many unknown brands for the warehouse are specifically done for the warehouse because of their reputation of bad lines and how it affects their brand image too. So they change it so that only warehouse gets the name bashing. Raptor speakers made with Sony components. Its actually more revealing if you do take them apart and see who is really behind the quality. What I don't get is all the bashing the warehouse gets when I've had good and bad from them, just like other places. What the warehouse does to bring value is great, what they do for the community even better but people like knowing all news to be bad. I'm sure the good things they do is not forced upon them. Cheers, KK	Kame (312)
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