ViewSonic VX2778-SMHD 27 Inch 1440p Frameless IPS Widescreen LED Monitor with HDMI and DisplayPort

I wanted to like it. I wanted to love it! The colors and clarity were great! But why buy a 1440p monitor if you cant run it at 1440 without flicker and tearing? Dialing back to 1080p fixed that problem...right before it lost and never recovered the Mini DisplayPort signal. Sent back, refund issued. Defective? Perhaps. But with 4k coming down in price, its not really worth giving it a second chance. Ill go w/ a Dell or Acer monitor. Its a shame. ViewSonic used to make great monitors, but reading the other negative comments, the quality appears to have fallen far.

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I ordered 2 of these. They look great, perform as expected, with excellent picture quality. However, both failed within 6 months. The first one started randomly glitching into a color-warped mode, which quickly became more frequent over the next few days, to the point of becoming unusable. A few months later, the second began badly flickering, also to the point of unusability. I confirmed both are hardware failures (in both cases the glitching also applies to the monitor startup screen, and on-screen menus), and both monitors have only been stored in clean, static, climate-controlled office conditions. After the first failed, I ordered another of the same (to keep a matching set), assuming it was an isolated failure. But now theres a pattern of repeat failures, I will be switching to another brand.

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Like many I am sure, I compared several different 27 inch quad HD monitors, although there were not a lot of options. I settled on ViewSonic primarily based on price and features not needed on other monitors, although I suspected from price the quality would not be as good as several of the others. Upon initial use, the monitor was close to what was expected, the resolution was fairly poor and colors were okay but not necessarily vibrant as you might hope. I realized quickly that my previous HP, Sceptre and ASUS monitors (only three I have ever had) were better quality than this. Unfortunately about week four I noticed two distinct vertical thick yellow lines that appeared instantaneously. I tried the monitor on a different computer, same issue, and switched another monitor to my main computer to check if a video card problem, it was the ViewSonic monitor. Fortunately Amazon took care of me and issued a refund and I replaced the ViewSonic with an ASUS Designo 27" monitor. When I first plugged in the ASUS after being used to the ViewSonic for about five weeks, it blew me away. I genuine,y wasnt expecting that much difference, I couldnt imagine there being that much difference in color crispiness and resolution, either the ASUS is simply one of the absolute best on the market or the ViewSonic is one of the poorest. Had I not had a problem develop, I would have kept the ViewSonic, but I am thankful now as I realize what I suspected, the ViewSonic was a budget monitor I should not have had too high of hopes for, but even then it dissapointed as I compared to another manufacturer, albeit a more expensive model. I would give second thoughts to this monitor, maybe my malfunction was an anomaly, but the quality just isnt good compared to an ASUS, an HP, a Samsung, or likely an LG.

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