Customer Reviews

ViewSonic VX2262wm 22-Inch Widescreen LCD monitor (Black/Silver)

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Ok, I'll make this short and sweet.
After ordering the monitor, it took no more than what was estimated (5th business day) which is seemingly a rare quality when ordering online now.

The monitor itself has a glossy black metallic look to it (if you're into a contemporary, yet 'WOW!' styled look, this is it!). The image quality isn't perfect when you first set up the monitor, but within 2 minutes of playing with the buttons on the monitor for settings, you can fix it to your preference easily. (anyone who says otherwise doesn't have a graphics card that can support this resolution and refresh rate in a reliable fashion; I have the Radeon 4870 HD and it works flawlessly with it)

Now to mention the drawback, which is so minor that it's unfortunate for me to even have to be mentioned, but it must. In my package I got all the parts included for the quick assembly EXCEPT the screw for the stand (trust me, I looked quite hard for it). Without the screw, the sand will hang over from side to side as if it was placed in a ball-socket joint. Thankfully, it's a quick-fix as the screw-hole is a standard size (don't remember dimensions, but it's nothing hard to find in a hardware store). I just grabbed a look-alike screw from my bin of extra's in the garage and sized it down with a grinding stone so it would be short enough to not stick out of the stand.

All-in-All I can't believe this thing is only 200$! It's definitely a 400-500$ monitor, easily. If you're tempted to buy this, don't hesitate! Who knows how long this price'll last.

Ok I have had my monitor for 10 days now, at first I was not happy with the brighness and contrast of the monitor. After making adjustments with my graphics software and using the controls on the monitor itself I finally got a great picture. I think four stars for picture quality. Now the sound is on the opposite side of the fence, poor and I mean poor sound quality. I was surprised that such a monitor with a great picture quality would actually have such poor sound quality, I did install the wow software but still poor sound, and I have made every adjustment on my computer and the monitor to no avail. Overall I gave this monitor four stars, has a great picture. I really dont care about the monitor speakers as I have surround sound for my computer, and the sound quality is great, you can pick out a surround soud system for your computer for under $50. So for the price great monitor.

I love everything about this monitor, EXCEPT that there are no height and tilt adjustments. :( I had to perch mine on a monitor stand so that I wouldn't be angling my neck downward while I work all the time. Aside from that bit of annoyance in the design, the screen quality itself is great!

I purchased this monitor as a 2nd display for my Mac Pro. My primary display is a 2 year old 20" Apple LCD (not one of their new LED monitors).

At first glance, it looks great next to the Apple monitor, however after a few days I noticed some oddities:

1) Color reproduction is not as good as the Apple monitor, although still excellent for something in this price range
2) Response is a little slow, but not off-putting
3) Using it in a darkened room is not recommended. The monitor is bright enough, but you can clearly see at the edges of the screen a lot of light "Bleed through" that affects the picture. Daylight or when lights are on this is not an issue.

The upsides are that text is exceptionally clear and crisp so reading email and browsing the web is great and that the monitor appears to be HDCP compliant so if you do happen to watch something in Hi-def, you shouldn't have a problem.

I have still given this a 4 star rating as it really is excellent for the price.

Quality of the image is excellent! Size is perfect, and it is not bulky, unlike the older models.

About 3 years ago I bought a Viewsonic VX922 monitor, and recently it only works intermittently when tested on several PC's, it won't come on reliably. If you turn it off and on 30 or 40 times it will eventually come on, but then at any moment it will go off again. I'm told this is probably a damaged component in the monitor from heat. So I bought a Viewsonic VX2262wm and it came today. The only problem I had with it was very odd, and that was the enclosed disk with the drivers was warped! That was a new one on me, to get a warped driver disk with such a nice monitor (and it does appear to be a very nice monitor). So I went to the Viewsonic website to find the drivers. I always just put my model number in the search box on their website and that usually works. Well, not today. First confusion occurred when I checked the back of the monitor for the exact model number. It says Viewsonic VX2262wm-2 on the back BUT below that it says "model VS12132". Attempting to find the drivers using all three of these numbers, the VX2262wm with and without the -2 and the VS12132 do not bring up the drivers. I called Viewsonic and told them this, so hopefully it will be fixed by the time anyone reads this, the person agreed it needed to be fixed. So OK I'll do it the manual way, go to Support, Downloads and find it there. Opps, sorry, no can do. I walked through this with Viewsonic on the phone and the girl was as mystified as I was. Finally, after being on hold quite a while, she said go to Products, Desktop Monitors, Size, 22", and then scroll down to VX2262wm and lucky me, there was the driver. After downloading the driver I asked the person that since my PC had set up my monitor with generic drivers, how did I get the PC with WindowsXP to realize I had new drivers installed? Telling the PC to detect new hardware didn't work. Plug and Play didn't work for me; it didn't say "new hardware found, do you wish to install drivers". The young lady had no idea whatsoever. So I nicely said good bye and called back today July 7th, 2009 and got another "monitor tech support expert". I said OK I've downloaded the drivers for my monitor, and I want my monitor to use these new drivers, how do I tell XP to recognize them? He said, "You don't need the Viewsonic drivers." Oh ho! Wow, and all this time I'd be under the false impression that they were somehow useful and I needed them. I guess driver conflicts are something not to worry about. I'm kidding, of course. Viewsonic has good reasons to keep their drivers up to date, and there are good reasons to use the correct drivers with your monitor, especially for us gamers. So I called back twice and talked to two more Viewsonic employees. Both of them could not find the drivers for me on the website as the first young lady had, and both of them couldn't tell me anything about what to do after downloading my new drivers. It's all very simple, you go to the control panel, go to System, Hardware, Device Manager, open Monitors which should have a drop down to whatever driver your monitor is currently using, in my case it was "Plug and Play Monitor", you right click on this and choose Update Driver. As you've downloaded the new driver to your computer pick search for drivers, it takes a while but it should automatically find the new drivers you've downloaded and install them for you. Now when I look at device manager under monitors it says Viewsonic VX2262wm Series. I shouldn't complain about Viewsonic. They answered their phones each time instantaneously which is wonderful compared to other companies where you might wait a very long time. And the people all tried hard to help me, and spoke English, which is also refreshing. They were courteous to me as well and seemed somewhat embarrassed when they couldn't answer my questions. I just hope this monitor lasts longer than the last one, although I guess in our throw away society three years is about average.

The monitor LOOKS great but the time it takes to find and use the volume control buttons make it a real pain if you want to lower or raise the volume quickly.
You need to work the controls like BRAILLE - one control to find AUDIO another one to raise or lower the sound. Who thought this was sexy? My old monitor had a volume control right in front that you could raise or lower easily. This unit is sleek and the sound is ok once you figure out how to work it but it is not the best design by a long shot. Quick shipping from Amazon was really the best part of the experience - the monitor takes a while to get used to.

I do not understand why people think this is a bad monitor. I bought two of these things and the worst thing about them is the sound(Which is every flat panel monitor or tv) and maybe the buttons on the bottm but i got used to that. So buy some REAL speakers and not rely on crappy monitor speakers. I have a 1gb graphics card and go dual output of dvi to each one of the monitors and trust me the picture is great. Then someone said something stupid about they dont like it because you cant raise it up and down? Buy a dell monitor and pay the price you crybaby not every single monitor does that because its pointless. I use these monitors at least 6 hours out of the day and i have my computer chair set to eye level and they are perfect or i can lean them up and down if i really needed to. They are full HD MONITORS.1080p and they stand up to it. All the people who say they have bad picture quality did you ever think it is the ghetto graphics card you got hooked up to these things. I have had them for 6+ months and they work great so far!

I am completely satisified with my new monitor! Best deal on the web ! Not one merchant even came close to the discount that Amazon gave me!