ViewSonic VX2776-SMHD 27 Inch 1080p IPS Monitor with FreeSync, Ultra-Thin Bezels, HDMI and DisplayPort

I'm using this monitor for a year now, it's durable, elegant, and with great price. The resolution is fantastic! Definitely, worth buying.

I purchased a ViewSonic VX2276-SMHD 22-Inch Super Clear IPS LED Monitor on amazon.com because I have a 13.5-inch Yoga Pro laptop, which is very small for doing homework. Although I am a university student, this monitor would be good in home or small office as well. This 22-inch monitor was intended for a home or a small office. Although, there are many features that makes a monitor worth purchasing, its designs and features, cost and shipping, and accessories are most influential. Design and Features ViewSonic brand is well known for manufacturing high quality products and they did just that with this 22-inch monitor. This monitor is very versatile with connectivity options. It has a DisplayPort, HDM, and a VGA port. HDMI and DisplayPort serves as an interface to connect the monitor to all compatible devices while VGA is used to connect a PC to the monitor. This monitor offers many of features and designs that can be found on larger monitors such as: • Super Clear IPS and panel technology • Frameless design • Versatile connectivity • Full HD resolution • Superior color rendering and intuitive settings ViewSonic offers number of features that appeal to wide variety of consumers. It offers a full HD resolution which is better for picture quality than a standard definition. It provides astonishing clarity and detail, whether it be while working on picture editing or enjoying the latest in multimedia entertainment. It is also designed with a dual integrated speaker which makes a great realistic sound for playing music and movies. The monitor is very thin with a frameless bezel which makes it very light weight. It weighs about seven pounds making it possible to be used for multiple monitor display setup without any problem. Cost This monitor costs $129.99 which is very expensive for a 22-inch monitor. Most consumers expect an average 22- inch monitor cost about $100. The ViewSonic monitor is more expensive because of its exquisite looks. Most companies do not focus on designing 22-inch monitors because of their low demand. However, with its frameless design and super clear IPS, this monitor has a lot more to offer for that price. Shipping and Accessories The product was received four days after ordering. It was shipped in good condition without any damages. As soon as it came, it was plugged in using the cord provided. It came with a few cables such as a power cord, VGA cable, HDMI cable and a sound cable. This product also came with a stand and two pieces to bolt together. The manual was not found in the box but everything was simple to put together. However, this may not be so easy for everyone. Overall, this monitor looks good and performs well. It has more connectivity options than most 22-inch monitors. All these put together makes this monitor a good bargain.

Sorry I wrote a book here. For those of us with ADD (like me), in summary, this is an excellent monitor given the price. For everyone who wants to read the long version :-D I’d give it twice as many stars if I could. I remember my first ViewSonic monitor back when I was doing graphics work in the late 90s before Windows 98. It was an 18” CRT that took up my whole desk but it was cheaper – at $1200 – than any other comparable monitor. It was a great monitor and served me very well. I’ve had several ViewSonics since and I will admit my bias. In fact, I’m using a 24” one here at my desk as a 2nd display for my Dell all-in-one (company issue computer). So anyway, I wanted to hook up a 2nd monitor to my MacBook at home so I could both shoot tethered and edit photos on a decent screen. I didn’t need a huge display, just an improvement over a 13” laptop display. I’m not doing professional work so having the ability to exactly calibrate isn’t important to me. I just wanted reasonably faithful color rendering, flicker free display with decent saturation and uniform display. But when searching for an inexpensive monitor I didn’t rule out any others and kept an open mind. I ended up with this one and I’ve been very pleased with it First things first: It comes in three pieces that you put together with no tools. Base, riser and display. It snaps together, you plug in a power cord and cable of your flavor and you’re done. It’s auto recognized in Mac and within moments you’re done. I’m primarily a windows user and my experience on that OS is far greater and I find that current versions of Win7,8, etc also have no issues with these displays. I have a mac because it was a gift and my old desktop died on me. So for the monitor, its an IPS display and the color is excellent and the display is uniform across the entire display field. There is a faint bit of hazing at the edges but it is a) only noticeable with a very dark background color and b) it is a characteristic of IPS displays in general, not a fault. I’m using it for remote shooting with my Canon T6 and the Canon utilities, Lightroom and Photoshop CC (which sucks, by the way and I’m moving to GIMP). Love the color, love the size and the clarity. So, for about 15 times less than my first ViewSonic monitor, I get one that weighs nearly nothing, takes up so little space on my desk, and has a good bit more viewing area.

I bought the 1080p version of this monitor. It is a great monitor with a few odd design choices I don't love. The Good: The color is crisp and vibrant and the tiny bezel looks really great (measures somewhere around 1/4 in or 1/2 cm.) I kind of wish I had bought two at the Prime Day price to see them side by side with that small of a bezel. This thing is also very thin. I saw the product images beforehand, but in real life it's just crazy how thin the panel is. The Bad: The silver accents are not great. I didn't think I would care, but that shiny silver strip along the bottom of the panel reflects my blue LED keyboard really brightly. Also, the power cord is non-standard. I thought I'd be able to just swap out my old monitor and plug in the previous HDMI and power cables, but this monitor has a power brick and special power cable. The stand is not able to be height adjusted, which I didn't actually expect at the price, but it is worth mentioning. All in all, I would still buy another one of these, and am very much considering paying full the price for a second (got mine $30 off on Prime Day). EDIT: The monitor was on sale for $20 off so I bought a second one. However, this one arrived with a shattered screen. Be aware that the shipping method is a little janky with this item. The original monitor box is inside a larger amazon box with a single piece of crumpled fill paper (that is protecting nothing). That means the outer box will likely be crushed if other items are stacked on it. Replacement was shipped for free and received 4 days later. EDIT 2: Four years later and I am still using both of the monitors. However, I just noticed an issue. The color on one has either changed or was always different. I generally work in my main program on one monitor and have folders and/or websites open on the other for reference. I happened to extend a white window across both screens and noticed a huge color difference. One monitor has a very bright white and one is very warm. I tried running color correction on both monitors and the warmer colored monitor just can't get a bright and accurate pure white no matter what I do. It almost looks like when you set it to reduce blue light (but I don't have that enabled). I am only using the brighter white monitor as my main work monitor now.

I've been hunting for old LCDs that could go down to 15khz for retro computing but wasn't having much luck. The ones that are confirmed to do this are well known in the community and run on the expensive side when sold used. 15khz is needed to use what we'd consider very low resolution screen modes today, like 320x200, 640x256, etc. If you have an 80s or 90s computer, you probably need this if you want to avoid pushing video through a middle device like a retrotink or an OSSC to essentially double the size of the video to make it compatible with modern monitors. They can be expensive devices, and prone to problems especially around switching screen modes. Debugging a broken computer when you're not even sure if it's broken or if it's your video feed box that's acting up is a layer of confusion you don't need. I then thought, maybe I can modify an older LCD in some way - but that's not getting very far. Maybe a future project I don't have time for right now. Plan C. Maybe there's some esoteric monitor used by some bespoke industrial platform that's still modern enough to be on sale but can handle 15khz. I expected to need to spend a lot but at least it would be on something new and generally available. I did spend a lot of time searching and digging through specs of dozens of candidate monitors, and found a bunch of false leads until I came across this monitor, which does indeed claim to go all the way down to 15khz screen modes in it's specs. Being fairly new (2016) and still readily available, and at a pretty cheap price ($139+tax in August 2023), I was skeptical. But hey, this is Amazon, if it didn't work I could just return it anyway. So while I've only had this a few days, I can absolutely confirm that the monitor I received does indeed handle 15hkz modes. I've attached pictures of using it at 720x240 (15.7khz at 60Hz, NTSC) and 720x288 (15.8khz at 50Hz PAL), and I've pushed it down to 320x200 and taken it up to interlaced modes, where it does work, but it still flickers too badly to be comfortable to use normally - this monitor will NOT act as a flicker fixer. I've used workbench, and I've played games. The built in speaker will pass to tell you audio is working, but you're not going to want to use it beyond that, it's pretty terrible, but audio quality is not why you'll buy this monitor. I plan to try it with 8 bit TTL systems next (like the BBC Micro), and I'll come back and edit this comment with success or failure. I got the 24 inch version (VX2476-SMHD), there are larger and smaller but I don't know if they'd work. I do know that the 15khz mode on this monitor ONLY works on the VGA port. I tried using multiple VGA to HDMI adapters to get my Amiga 1200 to talk to the monitor over HDMI and it never saw a signal. Maybe I was doing something wrong, but I wouldn't buy one of the larger versions of this that doesn't have a dedicated VGA port on it without being prepared to immediately return it after initial testing. This monitor also has HDMI and DisplayPort connections for 1080p display, so you can share it with other more modern systems and not feel like you bought a whole monitor just for a few hours of usage every few months, if your retro usage is light. (I think you can ignore the horizontal lines in my pictures, I'm pretty sure that's my A1200 and not the monitor. They don't show up on HDMI inputs from other systems, nor do they affect the on screen displays.) EDIT: I'm back to report that I was able to cable this monitor up to my BBC Master 128 and it works perfectly, I get a stable crystal clear image across all screen modes, and it holds the correct aspect ratio too. This monitor gives you a display that I consider to be BETTER than what RGBtoHDMI or the RetroTink 5 returns, and it just works. The cable was a simple RGB DIN to VGA, I made this by taking an RGB DIN to SCART cable and changing the SCART end to VGA female. I have the 27" version of this monitor on order now, I will write a separate review over there once I've verified it also performs similarly. Edit: 2024-11-20: It's been 14 months and I still love this monitor. I did indeed purchase the 27" version and it too handles 15Khz just the same. I came back to also add that this monitor was featured on a video on the Chris Edwards Restoration youtube channel, search for 'A 2024 Amiga Monitor' to see him put it through it's paces. The price is even $5 less now than I paid. I'm about to order another one :)

The monitor arrived without damage or flaws. It worked at the right resolution and refresh rate on the first try with Windows 10. The default settings were painfully bright. Setting brightness and contrast for comfort was intuitive. All colors and tones looked fine with sunny day action camera video. The metal stand was heavy and easy to put together. Tilting the screen back went well, with just the right amount of friction. I am very impressed with this monitor. It had a sharpness option, so I set it from 50 down to 0. Text looked clear and pleasing. Everything appeared to be high quality. The power LED was white and tiny. The input ports looked and worked well. The power adapter had two cords like a notebook PC (presumably for sending different plugs to different countries). Its power brick was 105 x 46 x 29 millimeters, or the size of a large phone charging battery. Viewing angles were excellent. I'm glad ViewSonic offered IPS panels. I can move my head around a lot and still see a stable, evenly backlit image. Awesome monitor. It worked with SVGA output from an Nvidia card. There were subtle diagonal bands descending when the entire screen was light blue. I presume the GPU, my unbranded video cable, and the monitor couldn't get two megapixels perfectly in sync sixty times per second. Still images looked fine. So did normal screens of text. I had to use Nvidia control panel settings to control highlights, since the monitor's brightness and contrast controls didn't get rid of clipping from the raw signal. I'm happy that 1080p SVGA works and can be reasonably well calibrated. The computer has HDMI output, so perfection and stability are easy to achieve. SVGA input is a good feature if a graphics card fails and I have to fall back to integrated graphics. The review will be updated if any problems arise. I have only been using the product for half a day. ViewSonic made a great first impression!

Modern sleek design, great quality of the picture. I needed certain size of the screen for my work and this one is great. Very light and easy to set up as second screen. Great price!

4 3/4 stars, just wish it were taller. I finally had to get a display to go with my Macbook Pro and I had ordered another brand that would not work right so that one was returned and I bought this one. I love it! Super light, super easy to assemble, and has a great resolution. I mostly do research and a little bit of data at work so this is perfect for me. The only thing is that I wish it were taller. I had to put it on three reams of paper so that I can see it above my laptop screen. Amazing for the price, and so relieved since I really didn't want to spend a lot of money.