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Viewsonic VX2025wm arrived! First impressions and pics
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I just returned my Viewsonic LCD. I had it hooked up to my PowerMac in addition to my Apple 20" display. Problem was that the viewsonic has no sleep mode. So when the computer goes to sleep, the Viewsonic monitor just sits there flashing "No Signal" indefinitely. Wasting electricity, and making me have to constantly run back to my computer and turn the screen off. Although usually I'd leave the room and come back hours later to find the monitor sitting there flashing away. Many manufacturers use this panel in 20" displays these days, I suggest using another one.
Hi there,
I spent alot of money on this monitor based on the thread starters review and BIT-TECH's review. It amazes me how much problems this monitor has, to name a few-
-Backlight bleed
-Motion Blur
-No sleep mode?
-DVI input lag and does not work
I spent £240 Shipped for this monitor, which when calculated through HIFX equals $442, please know that hardware is much more expensive in the UK.
My bank account is now so empty I think I may move into it.
Im really worried that I have made a bad decison, Im moving on from a Viewsonic VP171B, which is a great great monitor.
If there are any tips to get the best out the monitor can I please hear it?
Specs in SIG.
Thank you.
I spent alot of money on this monitor based on the thread starters review and BIT-TECH's review. It amazes me how much problems this monitor has, to name a few-
-Backlight bleed
-Motion Blur
-No sleep mode?
-DVI input lag and does not work
I spent £240 Shipped for this monitor, which when calculated through HIFX equals $442, please know that hardware is much more expensive in the UK.
My bank account is now so empty I think I may move into it.
Im really worried that I have made a bad decison, Im moving on from a Viewsonic VP171B, which is a great great monitor.
If there are any tips to get the best out the monitor can I please hear it?
Specs in SIG.
Thank you.
Noni said:
Just got mine yesterday....If you waded through the 57 pages of posts here you'd find that there is no Backlight bleed(there is a case of some lighting, but I think thats due to the LCD being slighty curved inward, no Motion Blur(I've played a hell of a load of games and not ghosting at all) and only a few cases of the DVI not working, which can be fixed....(Mine is working just fine.)
When I was reading through all the replies on this thread I was worried about some of the posts. A majority of them was good things which made me buy the LCD.
Glad I brought this beast, its a huge step up from my 17" inch CRT and looks damn fine.
Kudos to Viewsonic.
If some of you would be so kind... could you post your settings for your lcd? I'm not quite sure what would give me optimum color reproduction. All i did was use adobe gamma correction and that's about it but it has my contrast at 100. Doesnt seem right. I then played a dvd that had lots of black and then corrected the brightness so that the black of the letterbox bars on the top and bottom would match the blacks in the movie.Before it was slightly off.. the bars ant the top and bottom were a bit grayish. I dont know if this is a good way of going about it.
So if you could post your settings it would give me a good idea of where i should set my contrast, brightness and color (SRGB, 6300k, 5400k...)
thanks
So if you could post your settings it would give me a good idea of where i should set my contrast, brightness and color (SRGB, 6300k, 5400k...)
thanks
MrGuvernment
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actually, those settings arent too bad
NoxTek
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l008com said:
This monitor certainly has 'sleep mode', if yours isn't doing so then your display settings are wrong or you got a defective unit.
siegecraft4
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I have a question about sleep mode on this monitor also. I have two different computers, one connected to the vga and the other to the dvi port. When I shut down one computer, it automatically switches to the other input. Is there any way to stop the monitor from doing this? I would rather just have the monitor standby until I turn my primary pc on again.
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siegecraft4 said:
Change the settings on your secondary PC so that after a period of mouse/keyboard inactivity it also puts the monitor in suspend/sleep mode.
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Some people mentioned that the Acer AL2016W 20" is the same screen as the viewsonic VS2025wm except for the fact that it uses a glossy layer rather than an anti-glare layer. However I've just noticed that the sites I've seen show the viewsonic as 800:1 contrast ratio, and the Acer AL2016W as 600:1 . This could be because the glossy screen is darkening the max brightness down from 800, but I'm curious about this if anyone has any further info.
I was considering the acer AL2016W to replace my viewsonic which I would put on my gf's pc.
I was considering the acer AL2016W to replace my viewsonic which I would put on my gf's pc.
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Good idea, that works fine. Too bad there isn't some way to set this directly in the monitor OSD.Blue Falcon said:
CopyThat said:Ordered one this morning from Buy.com
$359 -$30 (New Buy.com Visa)-$50 (MIR from Viewsonic) = $279
Monitor and 25pk of DL DVD media + 2 day ship = $405 and change
/Happy camper
About the buy.com visa.. did it apply to your order or no? I signed up for one but it said it would have to process my card.
The coupon says you have to buy a system to get the rebate. Coupon Details.
cmge said:i just got my VX2025WM *finally*... and for some reason its a little bit tilted...
I just checked mine and realized mine is slanted too. The right side is 11.5cm and the left side is 12.0cm from the base. I wonder if this is common...
KaveMan said:after reading this thread and hundreds of reviews i decided to order one of these bad boys. it should arrive this week. i hope i dont get any deadpixels.
I didn't!
When I try to do the exe hack to get BF2 to run at native res, I get out of range. Suggestions?
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Ah thanks for reminding me of the model number. I saw the 2016 on sale somewhere and must have forgotten the model number of the AL2051W and got them confused.
I'm about to buy one of these, my only last worry is the dead pixel policy from retailers, i've heard mentioned in the thread many times that Buy.com has a good one, what exactly is the policy? 0 dead pixels and prepaid shipping for exchange? I can't find any info on it, but i'd like to find out tonight and put my order in right away.
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for those that are interested i can confirm that the scaling works on my 7600gt, however it IS important as stated a few pages back that you select the correct dvi input. why this makes a difference i do not know but i had the out of range problem with one port but all works fine on the other. if you have a 7600 0r 7900 try changing dvi ports and i think you will find it works perfectly.
the scaling issue was the only problem i had with this monitor and now that its solved i am very happy.
ps. if you want a pixel perfect 4:3 mode that fills the screen vertically just make a custom resolution of 1400x1050, games that run in all desktop modes will have a perfect 4:3 mode.
hehe maths was bad
the scaling issue was the only problem i had with this monitor and now that its solved i am very happy.
ps. if you want a pixel perfect 4:3 mode that fills the screen vertically just make a custom resolution of 1400x1050, games that run in all desktop modes will have a perfect 4:3 mode.
hehe maths was bad
Shouldn't 4:3 be 1400x1050? Anyway, I have a 7900GT. It has 2 dvi port, one marked 1, and the other marked 2. I have been plugging my monitor into port 1, and scaling doesn't work. I haven't tried plugging into 2, as I assumed 1 is the main one. Maybe I will try it later.
moondynejoe said:
My 7800GT works as well, and I am running the latest 91.31 beta driver. This was such a huge thing...I'd been trying tons of different drivers and everything else I could think of. And to find out it's as simple as using the other DVI port! This was the only problem I had also, and now that it is solved I'm ecstatic.
I just tried it on 7900GT and I can confirm changing the dvi port does not work. This makes sense, since all the reports about scaling not working have always been from 7900 users. I already saw people confirmed it works on 7600 & 7800 couple weeks ago, but never on 7900. I hope it is just a driver problem that can be fixed in the future.
I've had this monitor a month and a half or more now, and never noticed, but yes, mine is slanted as well.LostHere said:
11.5cm on the left, 12cm on the right.
I can't tell by looking at it though, so I don't really care... had to pull out the tape-measure to tell.