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Summary: Awesome!
Review: I must have spent two weeks straight researching monitors on the internet, reading reviews and looking over their specs. Then, I'd go to Best Buy, Circuit City, and other places to actually see the quality of the picture. This one really caught my eye. Besides being a great looking monitor, it has a beautiful picture and a good on-screen menu. The best part about it, for me anyway, is that it's a Sony. I've always had excellent quality from all their products, and there isn't a brand name that I trust more.
If you've been spending a number of days looking over a bunch of monitors like I did, you'll notice that you may never find one that has all good reviews. There are always people who think something else is better, but so far, I have yet to find one that exceeds this. Well, I hope this helps you in trying to find the "perfect monitor." Best of luck!
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Summary: Dog for Sony
Review: I purchased this monitor from Comp-USA. It failed after 10 months. I took a month to straighten out the paperwork, Comp-USA had the wrong serial number on my invoice. The Refurbished unit arrived and died after 4 months. Not a very good track record for Sony! They would not replace this unit. They said my experiance was atypical. Probably not, based on other reviews I've seen.
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Summary: HMD-A200 Best Avoided!
Review: I recently purchased a HMD-A200 from my local superstore to use with a G3 PowerMac and Duron 700 PC. It is a pretty monitor and has an integral USB hub. Barring the Apple Trinitrons, it was also the most expensive 17" monitor in the store at .... I have had good luck with some SGI GDM-20D11 20" Trinitrons in the past, but this monitor I can't recommend. The tube is muddy with a clear vertical deliniation, the right 1/3 of the screen looks great but the left 2/3 varies from mediocre to terrible. There are also vertical bars in the tube that the moire adjustment won't get rid of, these were present in every display monitor at the superstore that used an FD Trinitron tube. Using my G3 Mac the horizontal geometry was abysmal and I was unable to adjust it to even remotely straight. Color convergence was also off, and handily there is no external adjustment for it on the newer monitors (H Stat and V Stat anyone?). Color is one of the few positives, but the whites are just terrible, ranging across the tube from a pale pink to a light blue. There was also a 'splotch' of distortion in the upper left corner of the tube as if the monitor had been magnetized, no amount of degaussing would get rid of it. The monitor geometry looks better on the Duron than on the G3, even borderline acceptable, but the terrible whites stick around no matter what. I was very disappointed in this monitor and reasoned that maybe I got a lemon, so I returned it for another, which was WORSE. I took that back and bought a Viewsonic A70, it also has horizontal geometric distortion but has much purer whites and no convergence problems. The bottom line here is that the Sony costs twice the price and has 1/3 the warranty of the ViewSonic, and there is nothing about it worth paying for. The ViewSonic is not perfect but it is a cheap monitor, in error I assumed the Trinitron would be of higher quality.Unless the whole shipment of HMD-A200 monitors at the superstore was sitting beside someone's highly magnetic science project on the delivering tractor-trailer, Sony has cut too many corners with this unit. It is not high-quality or worth anything near the ... retail price. In fact, the secondhand 15" Princeton EO50 I have been using looks much better than the HMD-A200, and I bought it at an auction for .... If the sexy HMD-A200 cosmetics tempt you, proceed with caution, particularly if you are running Apple hardware. The flattest tube in the world is irrelevant if the horizontal borders of objects on-screen look more like the top of the Windows logo. I assumed that progressing monitor technology would have resulted in higher quality for consumer units, boy was I wrong.
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Summary: HMD-A200 Best Avoided!
Review: I recently purchased a HMD-A200 from my local superstore to use with a G3 PowerMac and Duron 700 PC. It is a pretty monitor and has an integral USB hub. Barring the Apple Trinitrons, it was also the most expensive 17" monitor in the store at .... I have had good luck with some SGI GDM-20D11 20" Trinitrons in the past, but this monitor I can't recommend. The tube is muddy with a clear vertical deliniation, the right 1/3 of the screen looks great but the left 2/3 varies from mediocre to terrible. There are also vertical bars in the tube that the moire adjustment won't get rid of, these were present in every display monitor at the superstore that used an FD Trinitron tube. Using my G3 Mac the horizontal geometry was abysmal and I was unable to adjust it to even remotely straight. Color convergence was also off, and handily there is no external adjustment for it on the newer monitors (H Stat and V Stat anyone?). Color is one of the few positives, but the whites are just terrible, ranging across the tube from a pale pink to a light blue. There was also a 'splotch' of distortion in the upper left corner of the tube as if the monitor had been magnetized, no amount of degaussing would get rid of it. The monitor geometry looks better on the Duron than on the G3, even borderline acceptable, but the terrible whites stick around no matter what. I was very disappointed in this monitor and reasoned that maybe I got a lemon, so I returned it for another, which was WORSE. I took that back and bought a Viewsonic A70, it also has horizontal geometric distortion but has much purer whites and no convergence problems. The bottom line here is that the Sony costs twice the price and has 1/3 the warranty of the ViewSonic, and there is nothing about it worth paying for. The ViewSonic is not perfect but it is a cheap monitor, in error I assumed the Trinitron would be of higher quality. Unless the whole shipment of HMD-A200 monitors at the superstore was sitting beside someone's highly magnetic science project on the delivering tractor-trailer, Sony has cut too many corners with this unit. It is not high-quality or worth anything near the ... retail price. In fact, the secondhand 15" Princeton EO50 I have been using looks much better than the HMD-A200, and I bought it at an auction for .... If the sexy HMD-A200 cosmetics tempt you, proceed with caution, particularly if you are running Apple hardware. The flattest tube in the world is irrelevant if the horizontal borders of objects on-screen look more like the top of the Windows logo. I assumed that progressing monitor technology would have resulted in higher quality for consumer units, boy was I wrong.
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Summary: Very disappointing
Review: The HMD-A200 was the first name brand monitor we purchased after owning an "off brand" 15" for several years with no problems. The Sony gave out 1 month and 24 days after the warranty ran out. The Sony was certainly not inexpensive, much more so in fact than many of the other brands. It did look great--right up till the screen went black. Your money is best spent on another product.
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Summary: Dog for Sony
Review: The HMD-A200 was the first name brand monitor we purchased after owning an "off brand" 15" for several years with no problems. The Sony gave out 1 month and 24 days after the warranty ran out. The Sony was certainly not inexpensive, much more so in fact than many of the other brands. It did look great--right up till the screen went black. Your money is best spent on another product.
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Summary: Very disappointing
Review: The HMD-A200 was the first name brand monitor we purchased after owning an "off brand" 15" for several years with no problems. The Sony gave out 1 month and 24 days after the warranty ran out. The Sony was certainly not inexpensive, much more so in fact than many of the other brands. It did look great--right up till the screen went black. Your money is best spent on another product.
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Summary: My education
Review: Today I purchased this great Sony monitor at a well known store. After I installed and began using it I went to My Simon.com where I discovered that your store online beat the so called discount price that I paid for this item. Next time before buying anything else computer related, I'll comparison shop at My Simon.com Thanks for the education. Regards, Pete M.
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Summary: Great Monitor
Review: When I first Purchased my Sony VAIO I needed a Monitor and the A200 17" is the one I Purchased! I did have a Gateway 17" . Compared to the gateway The sony is the best! Really you can't compare the two! The sony is in a place of its own! It is so sharp and easy to adjust. I am very happy with the sony 17" A200! I mean WOW! You have to own one to understand! the colors are great. Its a Trintron ! Just like the T.V. but better ,way better!!!
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