Customer Reviews

ViewSonic Pro Series VP2250wb 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

I am a bit picky when it comes to my equipment. Having spent well over a decade "behind the screens" as a marketing professional, I elect to update my gear on almost an annual basis.

Over that time I have gone from a Viewsonic 17" CRT to Sony 17" LCD to Dell 19" Wide LCD to dual HP 19" wides and so on. For the past few years I have be a fan of running dual Viewsonic 19" Wide Pro Series, they tend to have better color quality than most.

After ordering and connecting two of these beauties, I can say that the VP2250WP screens are the highest quality, richest color monitors that I have ever seen or purchased. 106% NTSC is NO JOKE, and is TRULY AMAZING. The 300 Nits, 2ms/5ms response, 1680x1050 max res and 3000:1 contrast ratio is impressive for a monitor of this size. Clear, Crisp and Accurate. The 22" wide size is sufficient and gives a nice workspace when running them dual.

The new multi-position floater base is great and allows horizontal and new vertical display positions. Running a dual-vertical screen setup is fun and very cool, especially at 22" tall.

Even though I think these are the hottest monitors to ever roll out of Viewsonic, I can't attribute all of the clarity, color range, precision, definition and performance to them. These screens sit in front of an Industrial HP Power Pavilion w/ 4GB of Ram, GeForce 8800 GTS and 1Tb of internal HDD. The Nvidia 8800 series (GS and above) is a must for those that want maximum performance from professional grade monitors. I use Adobe CS3 Master on a daily basis and find this setup awesome, especially when crunching 100+MB files.

If you are a design/marketing professional (or similar), these screens should be a serious contender in your next workstation setup. I would still like to play with the VX2835WM but am more concerned with quality than size. For the basic consumer, if you don't require 106% NTSC and 3000:1 contrast, save your money.

Viewsonic has once again proven themselves with the new VP Pro Series monitors.

I just upgraded from a 19" 1280x1024 standard aspect ratio ViewSonic professional series desktop monitor to this display primarily to get a little more horizontal room for casual photo editing and similar programs which also require a portion of the workspace to show tools, palettes, previews, etc., alongside your subject matter. It's worked out great: the bonus is that the colors are extemely bright and true, and the dynamic range is excellent, the latter of which I'm now first appreciating in many photographs.

The item arrived securely, setup and calibration no problem - ViewSonic has upgraded their software nicely. I've been using the item for about a month now, continue to appreciate it, and compared to the vanilla monitors at my workplace it never ceases to amaze me what a different experience this monitor is to view.

For you baby-boomers and older out there, during internet browsing I have to admit to sometimes zooming some websites to 125% in order to help out my aging eyes when reading longer articles, but this issue isn't at all specific to this monitor - any 22" monitor with 1680 horizontal pixels (or for that matter, my prior 19" 1280 pixel monitor) may display some text on some sites uncomfortably small for some people. Nevertheless, the good news is that the text remains true and crisp, and there's plenty of viewing real estate to go around on this display when zooming most any page without having to scroll back and forth.

I've really found nothing to complain about with this item, in fact it's one of those purchases I made without ever physically seeing the product anywhere but given the good luck I've had in the past with this company's LCDs, I thought I'd take a chance. No regrets.

I am a professional photographer and use 3 Viewsonic LCD monitors for my office and production. Recently I added a computer to my setup and needed a more color and luminence accurate monitor. Being a Viewsonic fan and very satisfied with my previous VP930b LCD monitor I picked VP2250 to add to new computer. I was looking for a monitor with better color reproduction and as VP2250 can produce Adobe colors I bought it. It was a mistake. I couldn't calibrate it using i1Display2 to get complete dark and consistent contrast and brightness. It did show considerable difference in color when I assigned AdobeRGB profile instead of sRGB profile to a RAW picture file. Conclusion is I found this monitor way inferior in performance than previous ViewSonic VP930b monitor which I bought 2 years ago. Can you guess what I did? I returned it and many Thanks to Amazon.com to refund 100% and also sending me return shipping label. All frustration about this Monitor blew away by Amazon.com's customer service. Please do not missunderstand my review, it is a good monitor for an average user.

We own two of these. My husband bought one for me when he purchased one for himself. My stepson just wanted to "play" with it for a while to see the difference between the graphics on his monitor and this one. Well, I now have his old monitor and he has this one. It is everything that the first two reviewers said it is (Nor Cal and North Dakota). You can work for long hours on it because it is easy on the eyes. I like to flip between at least two running programs all the time. This allows me to see both of them (side by side) without digging around on the toolbar, looking for the other file. The contrast is stellar and consistent. I love the height of the screen; no neck strain. No need to repeat everything the others said. It is simply the best monitor in the house.

I have been using this screen for some time now. I calibrate it with a sypder pro 2 and it shows good detail. I don't do detailed color corrections (I have my lab do those) so for my purposes it works great. It gives me good detail,good blacks and whites, with sharp color. It has been a good choice for me.

Only 2 bad pixels on this machine. Other than that, it was very nice and a good price.

This monitor has excellent color resolution, brightness, consistency across the entire screen and refresh rates. Very good for doing video and photo work/ upper end graphics. It also has a built in USB hub for 4 devices.

The one major weakness (and why it gets 4 instead of 5 stars) is its lack of support for HDMI, a format which will probably be more widely adapted in upper end video and photo work).

I was interested in getting a monitor that had accurate color for photography. I am totally pleased and I love the size. I had a 17" before and this one seems so large. My pictures look great and they print out the same color. What else could I ask for. Very simple to set up. I haven't used all the fancy stuff like TV & all but I hope to.
I do recommend it for photography........

Un-boxed, plugged into the back of the mac, set monitor displays and the images are awesome! Price is right, very competitively priced compared to others. Highly recommend.

Color calibrating the monitor using Apple tools on Mac doesn't exactly work. In the end, this doesn't totally matter and one could always do it manually. However, Viewsonic support sucks on this matter and they claim that their monitors are not supported on Mac - so for other Mac users, I would recommend a non-Viewsonic monitor.