ViewSonic VX2276-SMHD 22 Inch 1080p Frameless Widescreen IPS Monitor with HDMI and DisplayPort

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I am very impressed with the quality of this monitor and also with how great it looks. I was reading online for weeks trying to decide which monitor to buy. When I found this one it took me a while to make up my mind as this brand wasnt well known by me. Well, let me tell you that I am extremely pleased I selected this monitor. The picture is excellent, it is very thin, and it looks amazing. Now I am totally in love with my desk and can work from home with no issues. Ah, one feature I really enjoy is VIEWSPLIT. The latter is a feature of ViewSonic which allows you to split your view on these monitors. It is basically like having multiple monitors within a single one. If you have a moment, search for that feature online and watch a video. If you still not sure whether to buy this or not, let me tell you that you will not regret it. GO FOR IT! :)

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I have been using ViewSonic monitors for several years and never had a problem with any of them. The VX2776-SMHD 27" is no exception. I have been partial to ViewSonic for their inclusion of speakers, which eliminates clutter on my desk, but I became fond of the products over the years because of their reliability and friendly customer and technical support. The superb design of the VX2776-SMHD 27" allows a larger viewing area with a footprint of a 22" monitor. It was easy and straight forward to set up out of the box, with all necessary cables included. The picture is simply fantastic with beautiful and brilliant colors. I used Windows 10 to set up the recommended resolution with a click of the mouse.

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There arent a lot of decent IPS panel screens in this sort of pricerange. Only a few are even competition for this one -- most of them much older with fewer features. So for this range Id say this one is a pretty decent choice and probably one of the better choices in fact. There are mostly just a few things keeping it from being great. First, the settings are just... bad. The default settings it offers for a lot of things are bad. In particular, if you set it for gaming it will, by default, set the "response time" setting to "advanced." Which sounds good, right? Except this does some sort of processing that actually creates significant ghosting (leading several people to believe the seemingly high latencies are just too high. But 7ms actually wouldnt result in the ghosting you see with this at all. In fact, that would be more on the order of as high as 15 or maybe even 20ms... My best guess -- and this is just a guess -- is that "response time" settings of advanced or ultra actually enable some sort of predictive image processing that does more harm than good.) Setting this manually to "standard" corrects the ghosting. I was able to play very fast-paced games with zero problems once I set that to standard, so the 7ms response time that scares so many people is actually fine. (And there are actually multiple ways of measuring response time -- in fact there are different responses that SHOULD be measured and provided to the customer but of course are not -- so 7ms is not actually as far off from what a modern TN panel 5ms or lower screen might actually do in actual practice.) Also, color and lighting settings are rather hard and confusing to get actually right. For example, sRGB actually sets a very warm rather than neutral color. Ive had to manually set a lot. Unfortunately, I dont have anything to calibrate a monitor with (its surprisingly hard to find anything for external calibration in fact -- Im getting an ancient Spyder 2 for software calibration, but it really would have been better to find the right settings for changing the settings to be right.) When I set advanced DCR to 0, black stabilization to 50 (its hard to figure this one out in particular, but so far I think 50 is closest to correct, but Im a bit torn between 50 and 60 depending) contrast to 50, brightness down to my preference (35, probably just slightly higher would be a bit more ideal for many people,) and the colors to user controlled (100% each to RGB for now -- I need to figure out how to tweak this to get it more neutral still, but this is pretty good for a start) it gets pretty close to something that feels very neutral and realistic looking. Yellows in particular seem a bit odd though, so Im still not quite sure and will be looking for a way to calibrate it better via these settings someday. Once you get the settings right overall its pretty nice though and certainly good enough for most purposes (close enough even for many image manipulation purposes I think, though if you need 100% sRGB this wont do Im sure.) I think with the right settings it could be pretty incredible in fact, its just a matter of figuring them out (which I havent quite gotten just yet.) With my current settings though most test photos, scenes of nature, and etc look pretty amazing now. One HUGE point against it is the stand is absolute crap. They really screwed the pooch on this part actually. First, you cant get a third party thing. No VESA mount holes or anything like that to work with. As far as I know the stand doesnt use any sort of standard connection (its something that snaps into the bottom.) The problem is, it screws loosely into a single bar that goes up to the monitor. And no matter how tight you get it it can still be fairly loose. Now, to be clear, the flat wood desk Ive set it on is almost completely level (less than a degree off. Nothing major.) But no matter how tightly I turned the screw (and it stripped the head a little I was turning so hard) the stand will not stay straight. For some reason it even leans away from the direction the desk is ever so slightly off by, so I know its 100% the stand at fault here. And it just stands to reason that with just a tiny thin little bar screwing in like that there will be potential for this sort of problem. Thats why most stands that snap in like this one does at least are much wider. I had to add so much padding to the left side that it raises it by almost a full FIVE millimeters. (Conversely my desk is off level by probably about two folds of a sheet of paper, not even a single millimeter.) Since there are no screw holes whatsoever you cant even use a third party stand. Youre just stuck compensating for a screen that may or may not tilt severely. And honestly, this is the biggest reason I deduct two stars from its rating since once one gets the right settings they can share with others but fixing the stand being off level requires a fair bit of work. I got some foam material for only a dollar that I was able to cut and stick to the bottom of it in layers, so I guess this is easy enough to fix, but I do call them out on this horrible choice in design with this stand. It may be pretty to look at, but in actual usage its just horrible. Especially sticking up on one side with material propping it up. I used a craft foam with a sticky back (1.5mm thick in this case) bought locally for only a dollar and I cant seem to find something quite equivalent to it here, but uxcell 2Pcs 12mm Wide 1mm Thick EVA Single Side Sponge Foam Tape 10 Meters Length might be a good choice for anyone else needing to deal with this in the same basic way. Finally the backlight bleedthrough isnt nice. This, unfortunately, is standard for cheaper IPS panels, so I dont hold this particularly against this one. This is only a problem if youre doing something with a lot of blacks like certain games and maybe some movies. Probably not much photo work but if youre looking at an IPS panel definitely dont look at cheaper ones like this. One thing to note here though: its actually pretty uniform. Most IPS panels Ive used are very non-uniform in their bleedthrough. Usually its one or two corners and could be either the top or the bottom. And the bleedthrough tends to be pretty extreme. Youll have a spot that looks practically white while all the rest around it is black. In this monitors case its both better and worse. Where those are confined to a really small area this one has it much more uniformly spread out. Which means theres a much larger area affected by bleedthrough making blacks all around suffer, but its also a lot less actual bleedthrough in each area in comparison so the blacks dont suffer as much where they do. Which one is better or worse is more down to personal preference than anything else, but I suppose overall this is less bad probably since its more uniform and less disruptive. I think there is a LOT of potential here. I believe with the right settings it could have pretty amazing color especially. I think for its price range it might potentially even be one of the best options available. There are a rare few that can be cheaper and a few others in this range, but the visual quality is the most important in an IPS panel and I think maybe it might have an edge or two there for this pricerange. If youre willing to go up to ranges more like $500 then this is not the way to go, but for this low price it beats at least those others Ive compared it with in actual visual quality after I set it right. The stand is a huge screwup, but at least its not too hard to compensate with the right materials. I do not believe the user should have to do this though and packing material under one side to prop it up defeats any fashion benefits of its design anyway, so it just plain needs to go and be replaced with a real stand instead of the awful ultra-thin bar triangle thing. UPDATE: The Spyder2 arrived. After a lot of hard work tracking down drivers theyve removed from their primary site I finally managed to find the old drivers from before they took them all down (ironically on their Japanese website.) It turns out their software supports calibrating the screens built-in controls before creating a color profile. I found that with the standard 2.2-6500K calibration it told me to set the red to 100, green to 91, and blue to 88. This ends up being about 6467K which is as close as it could get with the RGB output as close to even as it will get (the blue is either too little or too much by a slight margin and green is off as well by a very tiny amount, but overall all three end up pretty close and well within the acceptable range.) Brightness can go higher and this will affect the output somewhat, but any brighter bothers my eyes, so I cant provide adjusted values at a higher setting. Curiously enough this is actually really close to what sRGB produces, however sRGB has way too much green according to the calibration tool. On the other hand, the ICM it produces after calibrating with manual RGB control overcompensates on the greens such that grays have a greenish tint to them, so perhaps the sRGB setting actually _IS_ accurate. Why it feels too warm to me I couldnt say, but if you want as close to sRGB as possible it may still be best just to use that built in profile. Im also using the ICM that ViewSonic provides via their monitor driver though I dont see much difference with and without. Without something external or a newer, higher quality calibration tool to compare I cant calibrate better than that.

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I am actually blown away by how thin, sexy (bezel-less) and retina-searing bright this monitor is for the price! Totally worth it for me - it basically reminds me of a modern phone or tablet with those qualities. The on-screen display menu (OSD) is actually very intuitive once you realize that the keys are basically softkeys that change function depending on what contextual icon is shown above them. The colors are amazing once you calibrate the monitor through the OS settings, and again the brightness almost sears the retina - I had to turn it down with the built-in OSD menu :-). I recommend that you give this monitor a try.

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The Good: excellent picture quality and hdmi works perfectly with docking stations. No flicker, no issues at all. I like that the buttons are easily accessible from the front. The Bad: first, one really bad/dumb design is the the front part of the triangle stand has a super shiny adhesive sticker across if that scratches super easy. I heated it up with a blow dryer, removed and then used adhesive remover to get the sticky off. Really a stupid design idea - had mine a weak and already several scratches - why Viewsonic, why?. Other bad is you cant raise or lower monitor, you can only angle it. I would like it a little lower but it is what it is.

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0:00 0:00 This video is not intended for all audiences. What date were you born? January February March April May June July August September October November December 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 1979 1978 1977 1976 1975 1974 1973 1972 1971 1970 1969 1968 1967 1966 1965 1964 1963 1962 1961 1960 1959 1958 1957 1956 1955 1954 1953 1952 1951 1950 1949 1948 1947 1946 1945 1944 1943 1942 1941 1940 1939 1938 1937 1936 1935 1934 1933 1932 1931 1930 1929 1928 1927 1926 1925 1924 1923 1922 1921 1920 1919 1918 1917 1916 1915 1914 1913 1912 1911 1910 1909 1908 1907 1906 1905 1904 1903 1902 1901 1900 Submit Adobe Flash Player is required to watch this video. Install Flash Player I was pretty upset with how different the 37 inch and the 24 inch were, I was expecting the same monitor but they were quite different. My 37 had a nice crisp picture but my 24 was tinted (even after adjusting settings) and I noticed a lot of things were different even though they looked to be the same design. The 24 inch had a slight yellow /pinktint to all the whites which I absolutely hate. The picture isn’t horrible by any means but I could have bought a Samsung for the same price.

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The monitor is aesthetically pleasing to look at. However, the yellow glow on the black screen is ridiculously noticeable and an eyesore to look at. Its a shame because it was a perfect monitor for my setup and unfortunately had to return it. Also, the bezel was coming off on the top of the screen so there was some bleeding.

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Let me start by saying the reason I purchased this monitor was to replace a Viewsonic monitor I owned for about 10 years. I have two issues with this monitor. Issue One is the procedure to adjust the brightness and contrast. It is buried in the sub menus. Without reducing the brightness and contrast this monitor is very bright, and should be only used in a very well illuminated setting. Even going thru the manual that is not included with the documentation that came with the unit, it took me a lot more time to figure out which sub-menu tree allows you to reduce those settings. The second issue is a performance problem. Whenever the mouse is used to scroll, the image will ghost. That means that a white luminescence will trail behind the image as it shifts on the screen. It is very annoying when scrolling text, such as reading articles on a web page. The darker the background the worst it gets. Gaming isnt affected near as bad provided the background is a light color. I wondered if the IPS technology was the problem, but a older Dell Monitor that also is a IPS monitor does not exhibit the ghosting issue.

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Pros: This monitor has a great picture The design is top notch & very modern. Thin, & I do mean THIN, its thinner than a pencil or my phone at the back, quite impressed Cons: The built in speakers are so pathetic its kind of a joke that they are even there. (it does have a buldge at the bottom of the back where better speakers could be placed) was not able to find the "blue light filter" I use this feature on other screens like my phone, tablet, and tv.. especially when Im recovering from a migraine & cant take the eye strain.. couldnt find the setting for that on this monitor even though it says it has it.

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Great, great quality at a great, great price. I cant believe how thin it is!! My wife wanted a 2nd monitor for when she works from home. I did some shopping and you can never go wrong with a Viewsonic. Theyve had quality products for 20+ years and this was no exception. She loves how crisp the lettering is & set up was a snap. Windows 10 recognized it immediately. I highly recommend this monitor...as a matter of fact I may get another one to replace my aging 23" monitor that is freaking out on occasions.

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