Viewsonic Ve510+1 15" LCD Monitor With Speakers

by ViewSonic

Product Details

• Item Weight: 7.7 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 11.7 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006B6XD
• Item model number: VE510+-1
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,295 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 21, 2002

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great LCD Display, but poor speaker (Radio Quality !), July 25, 2002

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"setiawan3d" (Indonesia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Viewsonic Ve510+1 15" LCD Monitor With Speakers (Electronics)

Before I begin my review, I need to explain to readers that I'm new on LCD Viewpanel user. My requirement for LCD Display was my CRT monitor would dying soon and a need of space.

Overall, this LCD is good, It's color is good.

Since I'm in Video Editing fields, the color is really important for me. If you're using it for video / graphics / desktop publishing, I can recommend this one. At first I'm a bit worried on color when using LCD, but, after take a look, the color is great, almost like CRT monitor. The LCD panel had Larger viewing angle (Larger Horizontal and Vertical view)

Other thing which make this product good is so thin (and smaller) compared with other LCDs (including other Viewsonic LCDs). My workspace is very-very limited, but when I remove the CRT monitor and changed to LCD, now I have a lot of space, larger space.

Unfortunately, this is why I only put 4 stars for this product, the built-in speaker is poor, not really good. The quality of the sound is just like hearing radio. I suggest you bought other speakers if audio is an important thing.

Other great things you can have from this, although I'm not using it, you can put this viewpanel on the wall, mounted on the wall. It already had place for screws in the base for attach to optional wall mount adapter.

When buying this unit (or other newer viewsonic monitors), you'll get Viewsonic color Wizard CD-ROM to calibrate your viewpanel. It helps a lot.

Hope this review can help you on making a purchasing decision.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Acceptable, but..., December 26, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Viewsonic Ve510+1 15" LCD Monitor With Speakers (Electronics)

First, I'm assuming my specific ve510+ was defective. Some pixels (little dots) were permanently blue. Other pixels never lit up at all. This problem persisted on two separate computers: one with a Radeon graphics card; the other with an nVidia. Certainly, the image was viewable. Only a few pixels seemed to be affected. Nevertheless, this funkiness bugged me. So, I returned the monitor.

Nevertheless, even ignoring my pixel problems, I am only giving the monitor three stars. Frankly, given the brand (and the price), I expected a higher quality image.

Certainly, the colors were good. However, the overall image did not appear to be a significant improvement over other 15" LCD displays costing considerably less than the ve510+. ...Actually, I thought the picture was a bit grainy -- but then, maybe I was influenced by the odd and/or missing pixels... :-)

Bottom line, the ve510+ appears is an acceptable monitor. If color is your primary criteria, it may be one of the best choices. However, I cannot recommend the overall picture quality. And, for those on a budget, I feel you can purchase a comparable unit at a significantly lower cost.

Hope this helps!