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Summary: great LCD monitor
Review: This LCD monitor looks and functions better than my CRT. It auto config's the screen position, and has easy to push buttons. The 17" screen IS 17" viewable! This sleek monitor will garner compliments never heard before. It will save a lot of space on your crunched desk. Great for dorm use and tiny apartments! And Wow, @ $... + free shipping it's worth the wait. You can't find a better bargain on this exceptional product. A MUST BUY! I give a FIVE Star rating! * * * * *
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Summary: Not as good as the reviews would have you think.
Review: I ordered one of these based on the reviews here because I couldn't get to see one in a shop. The reviews were mostly very positive and I was very disappointed when it arrived. The screen has a distinct variation in brightness from top to bottom. Getting a good picture proved impossible. Pixel jitter, color quality and the backlight gradient effect were all working against me. In it's native mode, I adjusted the thing to get it as sharp as possible and color calibrated but it still looked bad.The thing that really sealed it for me was the incredibly narrow vertical viewing angle. Rocking back and forth in my chair had the picture wildly changing shade, this movement equals only about 1-2" vertically but it was enough to completely spoil the picture. If you're not square-on, it looks terrible. Another strange effect was when very close (12") it looks sharp, move back to about 18-24" and it looks fuzzy.. hard to describe but easy to see. The price is reasonably low, however, for quite a bit less money you can get far better CRT's (I have a 19" one at work which would eat this for breakfast) but they do eat deskspace too. I guess most of the reviews here are by people who aren't judging on any kind of absolute scale, as my other flat panel, an AG Neovo X-175 is so far above the level of the Envision that it's not even funny. It's a lot more money but it's a much better display. Oddly, both have 4.5 star ratings. Compared to each other though, the Neovo is at least 2 stars better in picture quality so I sent the Envision back and ordered another Neovo. Conclusions;
If you want cheap and aren't overly critical of sharpness, color, brightness and viewing angle, or you have a really bad CRT to replace, this may suit you. Personally I'd rather spend more on a better flat panel or get a cheaper and better 19" CRT.
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Summary: Excellent Value AND Quality
Review: Absolutely terrific. Couldn't beat the price on this 17" ... and then saw the display. Bright, attractive, crisp. Just amazing, can't be beat. Go for it over a 15" if you are shopping around. This Amazon price is the best too. Saw it at a local 'warehouse' for ... more. Re another review, stuck(hot) pixels do happen. I had a 15" from another manufacturer, same problem and the answer is take it back/warranty. This is a full 3yr parts/labor (based on info) so I'm very glad to get that, too.
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Summary: great buy & great product
Review: clear & sharp.... great price! who could ask for more!
I've owned it for a month or two already. It's only clear & sharp at 1280 x 1024. at lower res, the text is not as sharp. I've compared w/ many other LCD 17" this is the best yet.......
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Summary: Very pleased with monitor
Review: I gave this monitor five stars. It's price is fabulous. But at this price, you always run a risk of dead pixels, and DOA units can all be part of the game. I was ready for either of these, and to go through a return hassle if need be. I am pleased to report that the monitor worked like a champ right out of the box, and as far as I can tell, it has no dead pixels. The picture quality is very good for general business and programming use. LCD flicker (looks like heat rising off the desert floor) is very low-- I have to look very closely to catch it. It shows shadow and highlight well, and I couldn't be more pleased. ....
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Summary: Beware of reviewers
Review: I just got my 17" today so I cant yet give a complete review, but right off the bat I can't give it a 5 because mine came with an anoying "stuck pixel" in the upper left...against a dark backgroud it is apparent(red)...against white you cant see it. If I decide to keep this model (I have 14 days to return it) I will try to get one without a dead pixel on it. Now about the reviewers..I noticed one guy wrote 2 similiar reviews (almost exact words) on two dif days (11/4 and 11/6) and slammed the monitor but funny enough in 1 he is from SF in the other Maine...hmmm...I wonder who he works for! Dont trust all reviews. As for the monitor my first imprssion is good (other than the stuck Pixel). I played a few games and while the quality is great it does suffer in fast action moments such as in the soccer Fifa 2002 game...in rapid movemnts you definetly get a blur going with the players on the field...kinda anoying but not that bad. In Photoshop it worked fine and photos looked clear...but make sure you set windows to the right resolution 1280 x 1024 otherwise it wont be as good. Like another reviewer said fine tune with the "focus" and "clock" ajustments for even better quality.
Scrolling text looks blurred also...anoying but usually you dont read while scrolling. My main reason for an LCD was for my eyes...my eyes "burn" after a while and I have read that LCD's aliviate that...that still remains to be seen as the days go by.
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Summary: CRT verses LCD
Review: I recently purchased the EN-7100e monitor, mostly for space reasons and cost. The EN-7100e has very good resolution, however
like most LCD monitors, the user should be right in front of the monitor for the best view. The monitor is light weight, and takes up very little space, however, using this product where any audio gear might be present (such as mixers,speakers, or amplifiers) is not a good idea. It has very strong electromagnetic interference,(EMI) which produces a strong low hum through any audio device. The manufacture does not have any solutions to this problem. The AC/DC transformer comes with a very short cord (to the monitor) so you cannot get it very far away from any audio device. Again, this would be an outstanding product, if a solution could be resolved to the EMI problem.
May I suggest, the manufacture make a note, "This product should not be used near or around audio devices."
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Summary: Sharp text, gorgeous color (and little $)
Review: I usually wouldn't go for the lowest priced product in its catagory, because I see quality as much more important than price. I did my research on the web and decided on a different LCD monitor from a name brand (who's heard of Envision before?) based on the specs. When I got to the store and actually saw 8 various models of LCD screens side by side, this Envision 7100 definitely stood out as one of the top two - and the other good one cost more than twice the price of this. I played with various resolution settings to give each monitor a fair evaluation - native resolution or not, the text on this one is much sharper than the Samsung or even the Sony ones. The color is breathtaking after I tuned it a little brighter than default. I asked the salesperson to play a DVD movie to check out the pixel refresh speed (as it was not listed on the box), and found it more than satisfactory... and did I mention the color was gorgeous? I've now owned it for two weeks and have no regrets. Best quality! But for this fantastic price, you should also realize what you're NOT getting:
- Only analog input (no digital in, no TV in).
- Viewing angle is slightly narrow horizontally.
- Support arm is permenantly affixed to the back of the LCD, therefore no option of attaching it to a free-moving monitor arm. Considering the great quality, I think it's worth giving up the few features listed above (which you might find essential - but I have no use for at the moment), and save a few hundred dollars!
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Summary: low hum
Review: This monitor is great. I experience low hum through the audio system whenever this monitor is on. It even records this hum while recording through the PC. Is there a filter or a longer extension cord , so I can get the AC/DC black box away from
the audio systems speakers? I really need some advise. Thank you,
R. Barton
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Summary: Great price, shadowy performance
Review: Given the price, I really wanted to like this monitor. Unfortunately, I found the text to contain shadows, and working with this display gave me headaches after only a short period. Images looked fine, but text, no matter how big or small, contained shadows and seemed slightly out of focus. I tested this monitor on three separate machines, a Macintosh G3, an IBM T22 laptop, and a custom built Pentium III box. All support the monitor's native resolution. On all three, the text was shadowy and difficult to scan. No amount of adjusting the display or the display cards (e.g., scan rate) solved the problem. Reading pages of black text on white backgrounds was difficult and made my eyes hurt. A few general comments: the cord between the power brick and the display is too short to reach the floor. As a result, the power brick must sit on the desktop, taking up some of the very space that the LCD monitor is supposed to free. The lack of a digital input may be an issue for some, but shouldn't be a problem for users who simply want to stroll the Internet and browse documents. The lack of a second input is only an issue for those who need to easily switch the monitor between multiple machines. The top-mounted control buttons aren't nearly the problem some reviews suggest -- they're very easy to memorize, and since you only use them occasionally, it's nice to have them outside your regular visual range. Like many/most LCDs, this one is noticably brighter at the bottom than at the top. Some Macs (such as the beige G3 minitower, for example), will require an adapter to plug this into your display port. It's not included or sold by Envision, though their tech support answered my email quickly with a concise and accurate answer. Given the positive reports from others, I'm more than willing to believe that either my machines had mediocre display card technology (though I find it especially difficult to believe for the T22, given the high quality of its own LCD display), or I simply received a bad sample of the Envision monitor. Either way, I'd suggest buying this from a merchant (such as Amazon.com) with a liberal return policy.
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