ViewSonic VX2476-SMHD 24 Inch 1080p Frameless Widescreen IPS Monitor with HDMI and DisplayPort

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Awesome monitor - was debating whether to give it 4 or 5 stars, I was going to do 4 stars only because its not VESA compliant (no mount), and I REALLY wish it was because other than that its perfect - the brightness and contrast are great, esp the brightness I was impressed by; and viewing angles obviously are good since its an IPS screen, the settings are plenty and the monitor is SO LIGHT and THIN!! Super easy setup! I went with 5 stars because for how classy and sleek and nice it is, its a great price. My ONLY other mini complaint other than the lack of it being mountable, is ... the excessive "VIEWSONIC" logos all over it! aka, on the bottom edge in the front, then in large font directly below in the middle of the monitor stand, and last but not least.. in even greater font... "view sonic" in big white letters on the back of it. Like ... its a little much! But, super good monitor, GREAT for gaming, its extremely responsive and I noticed no motion blur or lag at all. love it.

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Ive been using this screen for about a month and Im loving it. Ive used it primarily for work - spreadsheets, Word documents, photo editing, and video creation all look great. Ive also watched a few movies on it and was also impressed with how clear it is. The sound is pretty good, too, considering most monitors dont even come with sound. I wouldnt use the sound for movies but for work purposes its good. Setup was a breeze - it was recognized right away. Making adjustments is also easy to do. Ive played around with the settings and it provides ample options to find the one thats best for your eyes. Ive found no flicker at all. I also love not having the large frame around the screen as many monitors have. Overall, ViewSonic remains the best option for quality monitors at the best prices.

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The monitor arrived without damage or flaws. It worked at the right resolution and refresh rate on the first try with Windows 10. The default settings were painfully bright. Setting brightness and contrast for comfort was intuitive. All colors and tones looked fine with sunny day action camera video. The metal stand was heavy and easy to put together. Tilting the screen back went well, with just the right amount of friction. I am very impressed with this monitor. It had a sharpness option, so I set it from 50 down to 0. Text looked clear and pleasing. Everything appeared to be high quality. The power LED was white and tiny. The input ports looked and worked well. The power adapter had two cords like a notebook PC (presumably for sending different plugs to different countries). Its power brick was 105 x 46 x 29 millimeters, or the size of a large phone charging battery. Viewing angles were excellent. Im glad ViewSonic offered IPS panels. I can move my head around a lot and still see a stable, evenly backlit image. Awesome monitor. It worked with SVGA output from an Nvidia card. There were subtle diagonal bands descending when the entire screen was light blue. I presume the GPU, my unbranded video cable, and the monitor couldnt get two megapixels perfectly in sync sixty times per second. Still images looked fine. So did normal screens of text. I had to use Nvidia control panel settings to control highlights, since the monitors brightness and contrast controls didnt get rid of clipping from the raw signal. Im happy that 1080p SVGA works and can be reasonably well calibrated. The computer has HDMI output, so perfection and stability are easy to achieve. SVGA input is a good feature if a graphics card fails and I have to fall back to integrated graphics. The review will be updated if any problems arise. I have only been using the product for half a day. ViewSonic made a great first impression!

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Love this monitor. Ive had it over a year and its holding up great

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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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