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Summary: Really nice monitor if it wasn't for the geometry...
Review: The good thing about this monitor, besides a very nice and decorative exterior design, is a screen with bright colors and high resolution. However, I am on my 3rd ViewSonic monitor within a few weeks, 1 P70F, and 2 P90F. None of them has been able to produce a straight horizontal line accurately. My first monitor was slighly concave, while the last two each has had problem with the horizontal geometry. After doing a lot of tweaking and adjusting I am still left with a screen where the lower right corner is about 3 milimeters higher than the left lower corner! This is visible even at a distance and of course makes for incorrect screen geometry overall. If it wasn't for this problem, I would find this monitor absolute great. I am amazed at how a reputable company like ViewSonic can put out a product like this, obviously with either insufficient quality control or extremely low requirements for what is supposed to be their top-of-the-line CRT monitor. I have worked for major computer companies, where I worked with a lot of different screens, and never have I seen monitors with these kind of severe geometric problems anywhere. I am going to go for a NEC MultiSync FE991SB monitor instead, since I only have only have good experiences with NEC monitors. Hope ViewSonic get their act together, then they could definitely have a winner here!
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Summary: Perfect digital pictures - text blurred!!!
Review: The monitor has great potential for displaying high quality pictures from digital camera. It was a great experience compared with my 6 y.o. Panasonic :) Superb colors, details, contrast - everything. But nothing is perfect - the text is sharp only at the left side of the display - the rest of it is blurred and makes it hard to look at. When I switch to 1280x1024 @85Hz (Recommended) the text is too blurred to work with. The clock at the bottom right has a reddish blurre! I'm going to call service center and ask them if they will repair/replace the unit. If not I will lower my rating to "one star" :( If the image on the new unit will be equally sharp I will raise it to 4 or even 5 stars and add some details about tested resolutions etc.
Rating: 
Summary: Excellent Picture, Average Features
Review: The P90f is truly excellent, with a sharp and even picture and very nice bright colors. Right now, I am running it at 1280x1024 32bit color under a 2 1/2 year-old video card (ATI All-in-Wonder 128 Pro) and it's clarity is better than my slightly scratched-up glasses will allow me to see!Even more incredible to me is that, at the maximum resolution I can set (1920x1440), the picture is still as clear as my old monitor at 1024x768. 1600x1200 is just as clear to my eyes as my current 1280x1024. I can imagine this clarity would improve with higher quality video adaptors (I can't wait to get one). This monitor's graphics are also quite stunning. Vivid, well-separated and crisp colors in all modes (16/32 bit 640x480 to 1280x1024 are what I tried). The controls (on screen display) are the usually lot of brightness/contrast, color and geometry displays. Straight out of the box, the geometry only required a few minor tweaks to get to a very acceptable shape. Other monitors I've had required massive tuning. The controls are really average, and I admit I expected a bit more innovation in a product positioned as "professional" (perhaps in a higher-end P-series model). The color is a bit limited in control, you do get a red and blue color temperature adjustment (green is fixed). the problem is that what looks right depends on the contrast and brightness settings - which mean exiting the color menu and adjusting them, then coming back to the color menu etc. Mode switching is average speed as well, but the picture snaps back fairly quickly, so it's not an issue. No bit complaints here and, really, with a monitor like this, it's about the looks. I never believed I could own a monitor this nice for less than ... and I'm very glad to have been proven wrong.
Rating:
Summary: Excellent Picture, Average Features
Review: The P90f is truly excellent, with a sharp and even picture and very nice bright colors. Right now, I am running it at 1280x1024 32bit color under a 2 1/2 year-old video card (ATI All-in-Wonder 128 Pro) and it's clarity is better than my slightly scratched-up glasses will allow me to see! Even more incredible to me is that, at the maximum resolution I can set (1920x1440), the picture is still as clear as my old monitor at 1024x768. 1600x1200 is just as clear to my eyes as my current 1280x1024. I can imagine this clarity would improve with higher quality video adaptors (I can't wait to get one). This monitor's graphics are also quite stunning. Vivid, well-separated and crisp colors in all modes (16/32 bit 640x480 to 1280x1024 are what I tried). The controls (on screen display) are the usually lot of brightness/contrast, color and geometry displays. Straight out of the box, the geometry only required a few minor tweaks to get to a very acceptable shape. Other monitors I've had required massive tuning. The controls are really average, and I admit I expected a bit more innovation in a product positioned as "professional" (perhaps in a higher-end P-series model). The color is a bit limited in control, you do get a red and blue color temperature adjustment (green is fixed). the problem is that what looks right depends on the contrast and brightness settings - which mean exiting the color menu and adjusting them, then coming back to the color menu etc. Mode switching is average speed as well, but the picture snaps back fairly quickly, so it's not an issue. No bit complaints here and, really, with a monitor like this, it's about the looks. I never believed I could own a monitor this nice for less than ... and I'm very glad to have been proven wrong.
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