Customer Reviews

ViewSonic N3200W 32-Inch Widescreen HD-Ready LCD Flat Panel TV

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Viewsonic does not offer in home service for this large monitor (like many other manufacturers). If you have a problem you will need to ship it to Viewsonic.

I have what I thought was a minor problem which could easily be resolved. The media reader did not work properly. After much going back and forth with Viewsonic their service department determined the media reader portion of the N3200W does not work properly with some standard digital camera files and now states "the media reader is considered a courtesy picture viewing function of the display" and as such will not guarantee that it will perform properly. The N3200W product information does not call the reader a courtesy function as I took in good faith it would work, it doesn't work with many jpg files.

I have not yet determined if all other functions work properly (I don't use all the inputs/outputs). Are there other "Courtesy" functions not supported by Viewsonic?

Great features - Wonderful picture quality connecting to regular satelite TV, Upconverter samsung hd dvd player (thru DVI input) and computer - Good price 2078$ from microcenter (compare to other expensive 32'' lcd tv like sony, panasonic, sharp...). That is all i can say about this lcd hdtv after 3 days of using.
I have bought 26'' samsung, sharp and 30'' olevia. None of them is as good as this one. I returned them all. I highly recommend of this one. Hopefully, this would help you guys something on purchasing a TV. (-:

The Good:
-The Media reader is a great add-on. It works with standard scroll and slideshow functions.
-The Sound is great, it's good to not have to hook all components to the receiver and TV. With the n3200w, you can have one input to the receiver from the tv, and it sounds great (it's only stereo. No dolby 5.1).
-The tv is bright. It has no problem being too dark, and even if it is, there is a menu to adjust the brightness and contrast

The Bad:
-With all analog input signals (except the PC), the picture gets very NOISY. Items in focus are usually void of this problem, but there is lots of noise on backgrounds. It also has a bad problem with fading. For example, if you ever seen the New Line Cinema logo/intro to a movie, there is a glow behind the picture of the film. With this tv, the glow is very fuzzy, and it isn't a smooth transition from light to dark; you see "steps." This is has not been a problem with using the VGA and DVI inputs however. Perhaps it has a problem with scaling to any resolution besides it's native (1280x768).

Overall:
The ViewSonic is a good overall package, especially for the price. It is wall mountable (although I haven't tried it), and it has most of the needed inputs (except HDMI, which you can buy a converter to DVI). However, for straight cable signals, s-video and component, you will have to move your seat/couch back if you don't want to notice noise and "rain" in the background.

This is a quality LCD at a great price. I recommend it to anyone in the LCD market.