Customer Reviews

ViewSonic VG175 17.4" LCD Monitor

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This is an excellent monitor with super crisp text and outstanding graphics. If those are your uses, you'll be very happy with it. However, if you are a gamer...or have kids who play games...I was happier with my old 19" CRT. I think you would be too. Although game graphics are great, fast movement results in blurred images. I bought this monitor specifically because I had read reviews stating that this was not a problem with this monitor...but it is. Not an overwhelming problem, just a little disappointment.

Bought this monitor six months ago, when it was more money, and I still do not regret it. This ViewSonic is outstanding. I watch DVDs, my MPEG movies, and digital pics with exceptional clarity. My brother, the computer nerd, was so impressed, he too, bought the LCD flatscreen; actually said I made a good choice. For my needs (fyi: I use this for creating my own webpage, graphics, sending MPEG movies & digital pics...the creative side of my brain, and excel, but I am far from a computer wizard), I required a monitor w/a large screen, takes up very little space, beautiful resolution, and clear type (in some monitors the actual type is hard to read, not as bold as this monitor). This ViewSonic delivers. For me, a must-have.

Have had this for about 7 years. No problems. Using it for regular at-home work on the computer as well as to watch periodic online videos.

The pictue quality is good when the product is new. But--as people have reported elsewhere on the web--after a few years, a key capacitor fails, and snowstorms of horizontal lines persist for 15 to 30 minutes after startup. I found the company's tech support and customer service to be very unsatisfactory. When you compare the price of the VG175 to the life of the product, it's a poor investment, unless you know how to replace a defective capacitor.

To say the least this is the bomb I took one look at it and knew I had to have it. its worth every penny of the price for that crystal clear LCD diplay.when you're playing Nascar racing 4 you feel like yor actually in the car!.just to get everything straight this moniter rocks.