Viewsonic Ve510+1 15" LCD Monitor With Speakers

Rating:
Summary: Great LCD Display, but poor speaker (Radio Quality !)
Review: Before I begin my review, I need to explain to readers that I'm new on LCD Viewpanel user. My requirement for LCD Display was my CRT monitor would dying soon and a need of space.

Overall, this LCD is good, It's color is good.

Since I'm in Video Editing fields, the color is really important for me. If you're using it for video / graphics / desktop publishing, I can recommend this one. At first I'm a bit worried on color when using LCD, but, after take a look, the color is great, almost like CRT monitor. The LCD panel had Larger viewing angle (Larger Horizontal and Vertical view)

Other thing which make this product good is so thin (and smaller) compared with other LCDs (including other Viewsonic LCDs). My workspace is very-very limited, but when I remove the CRT monitor and changed to LCD, now I have a lot of space, larger space.

Unfortunately, this is why I only put 4 stars for this product, the built-in speaker is poor, not really good. The quality of the sound is just like hearing radio. I suggest you bought other speakers if audio is an important thing.

Other great things you can have from this, although I'm not using it, you can put this viewpanel on the wall, mounted on the wall. It already had place for screws in the base for attach to optional wall mount adapter.

When buying this unit (or other newer viewsonic monitors), you'll get Viewsonic color Wizard CD-ROM to calibrate your viewpanel. It helps a lot.

Hope this review can help you on making a purchasing decision.

Rating:
Summary: Acceptable, but...
Review: First, I'm assuming my specific ve510+ was defective. Some pixels (little dots) were permanently blue. Other pixels never lit up at all. This problem persisted on two separate computers: one with a Radeon graphics card; the other with an nVidia. Certainly, the image was viewable. Only a few pixels seemed to be affected. Nevertheless, this funkiness bugged me. So, I returned the monitor.

Nevertheless, even ignoring my pixel problems, I am only giving the monitor three stars. Frankly, given the brand (and the price), I expected a higher quality image.

Certainly, the colors were good. However, the overall image did not appear to be a significant improvement over other 15" LCD displays costing considerably less than the ve510+. ...Actually, I thought the picture was a bit grainy -- but then, maybe I was influenced by the odd and/or missing pixels... :-)

Bottom line, the ve510+ appears is an acceptable monitor. If color is your primary criteria, it may be one of the best choices. However, I cannot recommend the overall picture quality. And, for those on a budget, I feel you can purchase a comparable unit at a significantly lower cost.

Hope this helps!