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Summary: Good Stuff
Review: The Envision 1700e is a good quality product. I haven't had any trouble. It has performed as advertised.
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Summary: Mac Users Beware
Review: Great monitor, clear, bright and [inexpensive]. BUT I accidently changed the resolution (display mode) and now there is a "INPUT NOT SUPPORTED" message from the monitor and everything else is black. So I cannot see where the cursor is and I can't change the resolution. Even if you use another monitor to change the resolution, it will remember different display resolutions when you change monitors.The technical support tells you to simply change the resolution, this might work in Windows but not mac.
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Summary: Different than the 1700 E
Review: This is my first LCD and I got a great buy on it at [another store]. It was the only 1700 "s" They had a stack of 1700e's and the newest en7500. This one cost me [$$$]. the same price as the "e". The 7500 has a TV tuner and picture in picture but costs [$$$]. (I figure if you need picture in picture to watch TV, for [$$$] you can get a 36" tube TV) Of all the reviews I have read here, it seems alot of folks have the "e" and the "s" confused. The e has a 50ms response time while the s has a 30ms response time. I am told the human eye cannot detect the difference below 40ms. The "s" wins. Alot of these reviews are for the e, and the bad ones are from late 2001. Maybe they fixed the problems, I have seen none of them. The brightness is even from top to bottom, there are no dead pixels, the frame is silver and looks like a monitor, not painted by some 4th grader as some review suggested. There is no horizontal tilt to the stand, but there is vertical tilt.
The picture size is amazingly large, I am swithching from a 17" crt. The resolution on my crt was usually at 800x600 anything more would make the text too small. I work with a lot of text and do some website design. I usually view with my feet up on the desk,leaning back in my chair, and thus at a good distance from the screen. The brightness and clarity are outstanding. The picture is really beautiful. Images are exceptional, but again I use it for mostly text work. Now it is easier on the eyes. I had a ghost issue, but also had a video extentsion cable. When the extension cable left so did the ghost. I set the resolution to the 1024x768 wich is the "native" for this. It is real good but some text is too small. You can adjust the view size, and or the appearance to "windows large" in your adapter setting. The 800x600 is real large so I flip them back and forth when I want. I am using a TNT2 video card and it seems to have one problem.
When I scroll on a page, (with the wheel mouse) the screen breaks/jumps during the scroll. This did not happen with the ATI Rage II card I had in, But the ATI card created almost too intense an image and I found it annoying on the eyes. I really like this thing, have had it for two weeks, and have two more weeks to decide to return it. I have ordered a new system, with a P4 and a gforce-4 mx440 64mg ddr video card, I will see if that gets rid of the "break" during the screen scroll. Right now I am running an AMD K6-2 500. with a little 16 mg card. (nvidia chipset though) The monitor is the best I have seen for the money. Also the most I would ever consider spending for a monitor. The "S", not the "e". It has inspired me to upgrade and build another system. This time more visually oriented. The only other downside to this monitor is the horizontal viewable angle is not as wide as the specs say, and the angle gives you a dramatic decrease in light and color. I figure you can turn it though. It's a very light weight object. Frees up a good amount of space on the desktop too. I will post another comment after the new system and video card is up. Then I'll decide if ... bucks is too much for a monitor.
Right now I'm inclined to keep it.
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Summary: Very Good Flat Panel Monitor at a Great Price
Review: I've had my Envision 17" LCD monitor for about 8 months, and it has been one of the best off-the-shelf purchases for my home office that I ever made. I saved about 20% off big name manufacturer prices, which put this monitor more in my price range. I use mine mostly for web surfing and word processing/spreadsheets and don't have a single complaint. Running Windows 98, I had it out of the box and running in about 15 minutes. When I upgraded to Windows ME I didn't hit a single glitch. I like the silver finish, which gives it a sleek look. I don't do much in terms of DVD's, but for gaming (mostly simulators), it has been quite an upgrade from my old CRT 17 inch.
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Summary: great monitor
Review: I bought this monitor because it was a cheap 17" flatscreen. I didn't fully realize how much space it would save me or how clear the display would be. The monitor is a really good deal, especially when you compare it to other brands that cost a lot more. I'm sure you could find a better monitor out there, but it's functional, easy to use, large, and relatively cheap. I love mine.
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Summary: great monitor
Review: I do alot of graphics with photoshop and I was woried about resolution....with a LCD monitor....I picked this monitor because it looked the best in the store...and when I got it home..the picture was even better...glad I got rid of that huge viewsonic
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Summary: For the price...
Review: I'm no professional monitor evaluator, but I can say this is a great product for the price... The monitor does have one deal pixel which is why it gets a 4 instead of five. I'm very happy with everything else though.
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Summary: Thumbs up for the EN-7100e
Review: So far this has been a great buy and it's made me glad that I made the jump to a flat panel monitor. Comments and observations:
- A 3 year warrantee. Nice!
- No dead pixels, but I've not had the monitor for a month yet. But, hey, see previous point.
- No significant blurring was noticeable, even while viewing a DVD.
- In some reviews a couple of people have complained about text being difficult to read. I've found that this is easily adjusted by tweaking the clock and focus controls up or down by a percent or two. The effect is dramatic. Simply watch your desktop icon text and adjust these until the letters are distinct and sharp. Do it again while one of the icons is highlighted. It's amazing how much of an effect this has.
- Initially I had a slight ghost effect to the right of my on-screen objects. This was easily cured by removing the long coil of monitor extension cable I was running the signal through. The extension was purely there for convenience when I pulled my computer away from the wall. The EN7100e's cable was long enough that the extension was unnecessary. With it removed, the ghosts are gone.
- I didn't like that the manual didn't come with the unit (it's downloadable). Envision probably figures (1) it's easier to keep up to date this way and (2) most people don't read them anyway - save some trees.
- Being a computer hack I HAVE to fine tune things myself, so I was disappointed that there wasn't a walk-through color setup to convince me that the auto-calibration mechanism was accurate. Too, how does the auto-calibrate know what kind of ambient light environment I'm in or what type of work I do? So, with a little on-line searching, I found some sites that have some decent tools for this type of fine tuning (q.v. my next point).
- If you can get ahold of something similar to the Colorific control panel, it's worth it with flat panel monitors. Not only can one fine-tune the colors, but the settings can then be saved in different profiles. This is handy for when one wants to work with everything bright, crisp and sharp on photo projects, while on the other hand perhaps something more subdued for long periods of word processing. Or maybe you want to make some fine adjustments for specific games or other software. With recallable profiles, specific settings for these things can be recalled with a click of the mouse.
- The EN7100e's control push-buttons are on the very top. This means you'll have to memorize what each button does (not a big deal) and you'll have to allow for this when taking in close-quarter height considerations - i.e., allow room to get your fingers in there.
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Summary: You get what you [don't] pay for...
Review: This monitor came out of the box with dead pixels. I was able to return it for a new one, which was nice; but the new one also had three dead pixels within a week of using it, so I returned that one too. I bought the monitor with a [$$$] mailin rebate offer, but because I had to return the monitor in the original box a few times, the rebate period had expired by the time I got a monitor that didn't have any dead pixels on it. I'm on my _THIRD_ monitor, and I have two dead pixels on the screen. The new pixels appeared within a month of opening the box. The lack of tilt n' swivel control didn't seem to be too much of a sacrifice for the price, but the more I use this monitor, the more I wish I could adjust my viewing angle. The image is significantly darker if you're lower than center of the screen, which is pretty annoying. You miss a lot of detail in the picture, for example when watching movies with dark scenes -- Usual Suspects and Harry Potter come to mind immediately. Overall I'm satisfied with the monitor because it was so much cheaper than it's competition at the time I bought it, but the reasons for the price gap become clear after you've paid for it and it's sitting on your desktop. If I had it all over to do again, I would've skimped and saved an extra few weeks or so at work and bought a ViewSonic.
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Summary: Great value
Review: Much better than the 19 inch Trinitron CRT setting beside it on my desk.
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