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Envision EN-7500 17" LCD Flat Panel Monitor with TV Tuner

Envision EN-7500 17" LCD Flat Panel Monitor with TV Tuner

List Price: $799.99
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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Product Resolution is not as expected
Review: Resolution was not as expected. When I received the product, I saw there was a bright red light spot on the LCD panel which would never go away. Also the clarity was not that great. One good thing about this monitor is TV reception was very good, but little on the dark side

I would look at other alternative. But the shipment was received as expected and refund process went smooth.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Envision EN 7500 Gamers Review
Review: The PC works fine. Simple to setup. For PC mode rating would be higher. Much better than the the 7100e. Viewing angle's have improved The first En 7500 I bought lasted about 1 week before the Screen went terrible. Sometimes it would be clear and sometimes not ,very fuzzy and terrible colors and very poor resolution. Exchanged it for a new one. Which i have for 2 days seems fine.I tested super nintendo game system and that was very poor.I think it is because of the low resolution of the SNES I'm hoping for better resolution with XBOX and GAME CUBE . and Dreamcast. The PC mode is fine for gaming Quake,CounterStrike, and UNreal Tournament are fine. I'm hoping for good DVD picture but I'm not overly optermistic as the reviews are coming in. Trying to get one Monitor to do PC- DVD--TV AND games is a bit much. My advise buy this at a store that you can return. Stay away from MAil order on this one.Test it and if it works and fits your needs keep it. Otherwise buy a standard LCD for PC and forget about the DVD and audio imputs . Right now they will be going through changes in Tech until they get this right.I will report back about DVD TV and GAMES
I will report back late about the other video game and dvd modes OH yes the TV tuner. I've seen one playing DVD's at the store and I was not Impressed!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best Value monitor w/ TV
Review: There are a ton of advantages to having an LCD with a TV tuner built in. I use it for watching news/sports while working from my home office but I'm sure everyone has their own reasons. The tough part is finding the right model to buy. I spent a lot of time comparing the various brands out there and found that the top two were probably Envision and Samsung. After looking at the specs and comparing side by side at CompUSA, I really couldn't tell any difference and the Envision piece was quite a bit less. I've used mine for about a month now and have been very happy with it. The remote took a little playing around with to get used to but now it's quite simple. I plugged in my own speakers which were inexpensive but give a much better sound quality. As a monitor, it's much better than anything I've ever seen and the TV quality is fine for my uses. I doubt anyone would want to use this as their main TV anyway. I would definitely reccommend this to anyone who spends a significant amount of time on the computer at home or would just like to have an extra TV whereever they keep their computer.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Most unique monitor
Review: This is a real deal. The monitor is only ~ US$600 shipped to my door. In my bedroom it completely takes the place of a 17" monitor and TV, using up about 1 square foot of space. Mine shipped with two whacked pixels (very acceptable and hardly noticeable. In native resolution, everything is crisp and bright with a nice viewing angle. While brightness and contrast are fine despite having lower numbers than the top guys (Viewsonic & samsung), the overall sharpness seems to lag a little behind those brands. It's an easy tradeoff with everything you get here, and no big deal to me.

REMOTE: Mentioned little by envision, it's actually a good little remote, handling all TV tuner functions and every OSD function available on the front buttons---cool.

SPEAKERS: decent quality and plenty powerful if you don't need any bass.

SLEEP TIMER: Would have liked to see this, since it's ideal as a bedroom TV (not a main living room TV). Maybe in the next version...

Again, the quality critics make a good argument, and I would have paid an extra $... for this package with Viewsonic quality. For the price paid, though, I can only praise this ingenious toy.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Most unique monitor
Review: This is a real deal. The monitor is only ~ US$600 shipped to my door. In my bedroom it completely takes the place of a 17" monitor and TV, using up about 1 square foot of space. Mine shipped with two whacked pixels (very acceptable and hardly noticeable. In native resolution, everything is crisp and bright with a nice viewing angle. While brightness and contrast are fine despite having lower numbers than the top guys (Viewsonic & samsung), the overall sharpness seems to lag a little behind those brands. It's an easy tradeoff with everything you get here, and no big deal to me.

REMOTE: Mentioned little by envision, it's actually a good little remote, handling all TV tuner functions and every OSD function available on the front buttons---cool.

SPEAKERS: decent quality and plenty powerful if you don't need any bass.

SLEEP TIMER: Would have liked to see this, since it's ideal as a bedroom TV (not a main living room TV). Maybe in the next version...

Again, the quality critics make a good argument, and I would have paid an extra $... for this package with Viewsonic quality. For the price paid, though, I can only praise this ingenious toy.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Increadable Product, thank you Envision.
Review: This monitor works awsome, and now I can watch TV in the Picture in Picture, and turn on the close captioning and work away while enjoying the news, or sporting events. Combining Work, and Play, what a concept....Thanks for a great product Envision.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Excellent PC monitor, poor TV
Review: This one is as sharp and as bright as you can get for a PC monitor, but it is as blurred as you can get for a TV. Even at the lowest brightness and highest contrast, the TV picture is nowhere near a cheapest tube TV. As a comparison, I played a DVD through my PC DVD player, and through the S-Video out of a DVD player. The results are day and night. I don't know how Envision designed the TV feature of this monitor. It sure looks like an afterthought to me. But I guess if you want a truly great LCD video monitor, you have to spend north of 1K in the video department. Also, the speakers are so lousy, they can actually hurt my ears. Still, the combination of a PC monitor and a TV saves a lot of space in the bedroom. So, I would rate it 4 stars, despite of the shortcomings on the TV side.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Waist of money
Review: TV is like having no TV, very bad picture quality. Returned it.
Get Ag neovo LCD for PC, or any other good LCD for PC only, and add Viewsonic tv tuner box VB50HRTV with it if you want to see excellent quality TV / DVD... You'll get also very good "real" remote with it .
another advantage is that when you get LCD for PC without tuner is that its much thinner and lighter, can hang on walls etc...while the viewsonic exterior tuner can be situated anywhere in the room.
After all why pay additional [money] for a built in tuner when you can get much better tuner for [less money]

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: vertical angle
Review: Very POOR viewing angle.
If you sit on a chair, looks OK.
When you stand up and look at it you see a dark (or very dark ) screen, depending how tall you are.
Don't buy it, there are other better monitors out there.


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