ASUS VW266H Monitor Review

Manufacturer: ASUS
Product Name: ASUS VW266H Widescreen LCD Monitor
Model Number: VW266H
Price As Tested: $279

Full Disclosure: The product sample used in this article has been self supplied.

Today, Benchmark Reviews has as it's subject the ASUS VW266H 16:10 Widescreen LCD Monitor. Following the LCD trend, ASUS offers an affordable, large LCD monitor that not long ago was cost prohibitive for us working class computer folks, and a stretch for even the well heeled. Well, enter the 21st century because that was then and this is now. Folks, this is a 25.5" 16:10 aspect ratio 1900x1200 native resolution LCD monitor for under 280 USD. No, that's not a typo. It's 25.5", really. Still not interested? You should be because this panel is a nice piece of hardware for business, gaming, and all around computer use with the added luxury of having 25.5" of desktop space.

The trend in LCD monitors is to follow LCD TVs in that more and more we see LCD computer monitors taking on the same 1080 resolution (a 16:9 aspect ratio) as their TV LCD counterparts. Well, if you're on to this then you are an enthusiast working in front of a monitor connected to a computer, not watching a movie on a TV LCD, and you know you want a 16:10 aspect ratio. You also know you do not want a 1080 (16:9) aspect ratio that was originally designed for watching movies. Why?

Because at 16:10 you get a 1900x1200 resolution which means you get more vertical area for documents that are vertically oriented, which means just about everything, such as the Benchmark Reviews website you're reading. Let me just say that at 1900x1200 compared to 1900x1080, you get more screen real estate. Let's not diverge into a debate about aspect ratios. If you like the 1080 16:9 ratio, then you're in luck because they are much cheaper. On the other hand, if you want the 16:10 aspect ratio, you're still in luck because this monitor delivers, and at a very good price, even though they have been hard to find online.

The good news is that even though the trend is moving to homogenize all monitors to 1080 (16:9), the good old 16:10s are available (although harder to find and more expensive). This is the case with the monitor we have today. Even almost a year ago, when I bought this monitor, I had to really look in order to find one. Today, I can't find one! Every place I've looked is out of stock. However, ASUS continues to list it on their website and they have no replacement listed. There are perhaps two things happening here: (1) They are getting ready to replace it with a newer model or (2) It's just so popular that no one can keep them in stock. The sister monitor to the VW266H (the VK266, which is the same monitor except with a built in web cam) isn't available either.

Closer Look: ASUS VW266H

The ASUS VW266H isn't much different than any other monitor on the outside. It's black with a silver accent on the bottom that runs into the silver control buttons. To its benefit, it's sleek and tight looking from a design perspective, with a nice thin bezel. The stand is your basic back and forward tilt and it's degree of adjustment is adequate. The monitor comes with your basic set of cables so you needn't run out looking for cables. This is important too because cables get quite expensive. (I can remember the days of unboxing a printer with no power cable.)

Now I want to say something about the warranty of this monitor, and I saved it for this section so it doesn't get overlooked. Even though warranties specific "X" number of years for the "panel" that doesn't mean your protected if something goes wrong. It's the small text, you know, that's buried not only in the warranty hard copy, if you can find it, but also in the ASUS website. Well, I'll save you the trouble of finding it as you can link directly to it here: ASUS VW26H warranty.

Okay, so with that out of the way let me say that the warranty is pretty good. Since this isn't an ASUS PA series monitor, and I couldn't find whether or not it was a Non-ZBD or general ZBD (Zero Bright Dot) monitor. I think it is general, but either way, you get either 12 months 0 bright dot warranty and then after that 24 months at 3 or less bright dots. Or, you get 36 months at 3 or less bright dots. Either way, it's a decent warranty. There are other factors, such as black dot and all of the specifics of the warranty at the ASUS warranty site, as mentioned. Feel free to knock yourself out!

So here we have the backside of the ASUS VW266H. Handsome fellow, right? It is, and the logo is actually a cover that slides off giving you access to the VESA mounts. I tossed mine in the recycle bin because I could really care less about how the backside of my monitor looks, and it's just another piece getting in my way. You, however, may choose to show it off to your friends and brag about it. All kidding aside, you can also see that the base has a cable collector, and that, at least, is useful.

Yep, it's a side view. Really though, the monitor is pretty slim. Slim and also light at only 17.4lbs and even less with the base off (in case you're mounting it on an arm). This is some important information if you're buying an arm or already have one, since arms are weight rated.

I wanted to get a picture of the monitor facing head on. It's quit impressive. So, let's take a little closer look at this rather large monitor.

ASUS VW266H Detailed Features

Obviously these are the controls. I can never remember what the icons stand for so I just start from the left and start pushing until I get what I want. And you will get what you want because this monitor comes with a whole box of settings. So, for posterity, let's go over them.

Starting on the left, we have the "modes." There are a total of 5 modes. You're probably familiar with these "modes" if you've ever adjusted an LCD television in the past couple of years. They give you a variable picture according to brightness and contrast, sharpness, color, saturation, and color temperature. Just hit the button on the fly and you get what seems like a brighter or darker display. Mode choices: Scenery, Theater, Game, Night, and Standard. Next we have the volume control, then the Menu, the Brightness, Input (DVI, HDMI Component, and VGA), and last the on/off button.

My only gripe is that I would have put the Menu button on the far left, not right in the middle, but then who am I right? Actually, I have another gripe too. The button navigation system is a little frustrating because the icons don't always correspond to what you want to do when navigating the menu. That is, however, a minor objection when considering a monitor. The OSD, though, is nicely laid out. Harking back to the menu button, this is the blood and guts of the monitor, and the options you have available get pretty gory. I'm not going to go into each one, but I'll mention a few.

You get preset color temps with Cool, Normal, Warm, sRGB, and User Mode. User mode allows you to adjust red, green, and blue to your needs. The preset sRGB mode does a pretty decent all around, general job of controlling the red, green and blue output. However, I sometimes put my graphics level IPS LCD side by side and use the "User" option to adjust by sight, which further improves color accuracy. I did, however, get the best color accuracy after hardware calibrating the monitor, and we'll go over that in depth later. Another noteworthy adjustment is the "Skin Tones" preset. You get three to choose from: Reddish, Natural, and Yellowish. The preset options are a nice touch and should satisfy most users, but you also get manual adjustments if you need them.

Additionally, if you use one of the preset modes (Theater, Gaming, Night, etc.), you won't be able to access the sRGB option since the sRGB option adjusts all of the monitor color and contrast variables to its own color table. If you see the sRGB option grayed out, simply choose the "Standard" option preset and the sRGB option will be available. Last, let me say that you can drive this monitor to an eye frying, thermonuclear contrast level using the manual or preset adjustments. I'm not kidding. This thing gets really bright. Thankfully, setting it to "Standard" brings contrast back to reality.

Let's look at the main OSD settings:

You can see above what I was talking about when I said some options will gray out if others are selected.

Now this is something you need to know if you have a need for color accuracy and you want to use hardware calibration tools. You won't find Kelvin numbers under the Cool, Normal, and Warm options. What you get is simply Cool, Normal, and Warm. I researched and could not find what each of those corresponded too on the Kelvin scale, so I'm guessing they correspond to other monitors Kelvin numbers, such as "Normal" would be at or very close to 6500. Choosing them confirmed this as "Normal" was much less blue than "Cool" and not as red as "Warm." This is important for calibration because your calibration hardware will ask you to use the monitor's factory settings, plus 6500 Kelvin. Well, actually you can just set the hardware to auto-dumb mode and let it go, and you'll probably get the same result. Anything we can do to get better color accuracy, however, is a benefit.

Here we have the business end of the monitor. This is pretty standard as you get DVI, HDMI, Component, and VGA inputs. You can also see that you have audio input and output jacks. Green is input and the other, black, is headphones or output. The input is there because the ASUS VW266H comes with internal speakers. Do any of you ever use those? Well, I guess they could be useful. I can imagine a time when I'm really broke and need to listen to some music and all I have is my monitor. Kidding aside, I can see that for office use they could provide some sound when needed at no extra cost or desktop real estate. Still, I've never used internal monitor speakers, and later on I'll tell you why. For now, let's get a little deeper into the technology of the ASUS VW266H LCD panel.

Panel Tehnology Features

The monitor is of the "twisted film" flavor. This is what most monitor panels are because they're the cheapest to produce. Like most things in life, though, cheapest isn't always the best, or, perhaps, never the best. So too for the ASUS VW266H. Panels are made from several different technologies, the main types being TA (Twisted Film), VA (Vertical Alignment), PVA (Patterned Vertical Alignment), and IPS (In Plane Switching) and each of those technologies has several iterations of each panel. Since this isn't a technical article on LCD technology, I'll try to make this short and informative, but if you want to know more about these types of panels, please visit Benchmark Review's article on LCDs and the very to the point and easy to understand TFT Central website.

Understanding panel types is important if you need accurate color reproduction and rendering of images. So down and dirty, here's the scoop: Twisted Film panels have a very limited range of visibility before you get contrast wash out and color shift. Even though the viewing angle on the ASUS VW266H states it as 170 degrees horizontal and 160 degrees vertical, that doesn't mean you're going to get a very nice picture at those angles. If you need the additional bonuses that an IPS panel can give you, then you need to know why the viewing angles don't tell you what you need to know.

I set the ASUS monitor side by side to my IPS panel for comparison. After I got the monitors set up, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the ASUS monitor did really well from extreme horizontal viewing angles, even though it eventually washed out the image contrast and color. The vertical was much worse and is typical of all TF monitors. Suffice it to say, if you need color accuracy, you'd do well to look at an IPS based panel. On the other hand, the ASUS VW266H does a nice job for everything else, and for basic graphics and photo editing, it's more than enough, and even good for a TF panel. I was going to leave it at this, but I got curious and decided to do some additional testing, and I'm glad I did.

I actually set the monitors up side by side again and hardware calibrated them with the Colorvision Spyder 2 Suite. I made sure each monitor was using the correct profile by using the Windows 7 Color Management option found in the Control Panel. Then off went the lights, and on went the show. And what a show it was. What I say next is in no way exaggeration. I could not believe how well the calibrated ASUS VW266H stood up to the Phillips IPS panel I use for photographic post processing.

My jaw dropped. I mean seriously dropped. The images on both monitors were nearly identical colorwise with a few exceptions. As far as contrast goes, the ASUS was much brighter, which is typical of TF panels when compared to IPS panels (IPS panels newer than mine have much higher contrast ratio though). There are caveats to this exceptional color accuracy compared to my IPS panel, so an IPS panel is still going to be better for those needing a monitor not only for normal use and gaming, but for professional color applications. Let's look at some of those caveats.

First let me restate that if you need color critical accuracy, be prepared to look at monitors in the thousands of dollars range. I wouldn't even trust my 1200.00 USD Phillips IPS panel for that. On the other hand, I previously thought I couldn't use the ASUS TF panel for photographic client proofing. I've changed my mind, sort of. What I can say is that after calibrating both monitors, and when sitting directly in front of the ASUS, most of the time the color and transitions were so close as to call them identical. This was incredible to me.

What impressed me was not only how close the color was, but how far I could actually move horizontally and continue to hold an "acceptable" degree of color and contrast. The problem is that when you move even a few inches any direction, especially vertically, the TF panel changes contrast and has color shift. That being the case, I'd still use my IPS for processing photography, but I would not hesitate to use the ASUS if I had to. It would be a matter of finding the sweet spot and staying there, for even a few degrees vertical and you shift contrast and color to some degree. Now let's actually see what a good TF panel looks like next to a good IPS panel:

We see here how the TF's color (on the right) is near identical to the IPS panel, and that's impressive. We can also see where the TF panel is a little more washed out than the IPS, which is on the left. This is due to the TF panel having such high contrast, even after calibration. One could back off on the contrast setting before calibration and that may or may not help. For instance, before hardware calibration, you might really turn down the contrast, yes, and then in turn that might prevent the monitor from achieving color calibration.

Another problem with that technique is that you never know how much to take it. On the other hand, I need to increase output contrast when printing many of my images from the IPS panel because it's contrast is relatively low. Confounding the matter is that our eyes become accustom to the contrast (and color temperature) we're working with, so everything looks fine-until you get the prints back. One way of getting around this problem is to go by the numbers in Photoshop instead of eyeballing it. Getting the correct contrast and color is beyond the scope of this review, however, so we'll get back to the ASUS VW266H.

Here we can see an example that with some images, the TF panel has a hard time rendering transitions, and color. This isn't due to the brightness or any other settings because the image is dead on exposure wise as reported in Lightroom 3. It's a TF problem. Some gradients are so complex that the TF technology just can't cope. You can see that the IPS panel on the left does a nice job of rendering the facial contrast and color tones. The TF panel, conversely, gives up by showing us a reddish hue and by blowing out the face. It's not this extreme in real life; but even so, you can't get it under control either. No matter what you do, the face will retain blown out sections and an off color tint. This is an instance where you'd be printing an inaccurate picture because of the limitations of the TF panel. This is not too often a problem and only happens on a few images. It's also the reason you'll want an IPS panel if you do lots of professional level graphics. Next, lets look at how the TF panel compares to the IPS panel at horizontal angles.

Here we have the IPS panel on the left, and the TF panel on the right again. You can see that even at this extreme angle, the ASUS hangs in there pretty well, especially for a TF panel. We are, however, beginning to see a little washout compared to the IPS panel that's now showing us a little muscle. (Let me state here and now that the point of showing you angle degradation isn't so you can set up your monitor at an extreme angle to play Crysis 2 in your front room while looking over your shoulder into your bedroom. It's to demonstrate that changes in angle, even subtle, can and do affect color and contrast on TF panels. Even small adjustments in angle have an affect, and the degradation is vastly increased when moving vertically. So keep that in mind.) Now let's take the angle step further.

This is just what we figured was going to happen. Now we see the TF panel trying hard to keep up with the IPS, and the IPS is starting to not only show its muscles, but flex them too. We see here that the TF panel is starting to wash out pretty good. Let's take it even further.

Now this is what we wanted. You'll notice that I've even angled the IPS panel further away from the camera than the TF panel here. The IPS panel is so far to the side of the camera that the picture was getting distorted when I viewed it with my eye, like looking at the picture from it's edge. And look at that baby go! It doesn't even look like a darn monitor, but, rather, a static hard print picture. This IPS panel isn't flexing it's muscle anymore. It's pumping iron!

On the other hand, we see the real limitation of TF panels in this example. The poor thing is about to drop from angle exhaustion. But you know what, I was probably 150 degrees to the side of the TF (and 165 degrees from the IPS) and that's really good for a TF panel. Well, there you go. That's the best I can do to demonstrate general differences between IPS and TF technology without hardware equipment and a lab, and I'm fresh out of friends at NASA.

The last thing I want to say about TF panels is that they tend to bleed back light. That means that you can see light coming from the edges of the monitor when in a dark room with a black screen. In gross situations, it can and will affect picture quality. The ASUS does bleed, but not like a stuck pig. Also, I can't really see that it makes a difference when viewing images generally. In the spirit of accurate reviewing, though, here's what it looks like.

Yep, just what we thought. A little bloody on the ASUS side on the right, while the IPS on the left is black as coal.Like I said, it's not bad at all. It probably shows on your screen as a little blue compared the the IPS on the left.

Moving from color and contrast to pixel pitch, let's look at monitor size in relation to pixel density. The pixel pitch of the AUS VW266H is .287. The pixel pitch of most 23" LCD monitors is .258. This means that the larger display actually has less pixel density per inch, which means less image information on the screen. The reason is because the ASUS is a 25.5" panel while the 23" is a smaller monitor--but both have the same display resolution of 1900x1200. Think of this as you would when you blow up an image in a graphics program, or when you have it printed in a large format. The same information in the image becomes less and less compacted because its information is static, while at the same time you're increasing it's viewable area. The result is that the image becomes more and more grainy looking the larger it gets. Does it matter for your viewing purposes on the ASUS?

Not really, since you're not buying this monitor for high end graphics work. In fact, to my eye, the only time I notice it is when I am processing photography (I'm a professional photographer) and some of the images some of the time show a more harsh transition between colors and tones and sometimes grain (in addition to the problems already stated above). Not all images show this. Mostly it's images with a large transitional area, such as sunsets. Overall, I'm impressed with the quality of the picture for a TF panel and I could not believe it's overall horizontal angle of useability and hardware color calibrated accuracy.

I mention these "negatives" in the spirit of accurate reviewing, but I don't see any of the negatives as any reason not to buy this monitor. For with gaming, business use, typing, surfing the web, and 99% of other activity, you're not going to see any of these negatives. In fact, after my tests, I'd be willing to use it for photo processing if I didn't have access to my IPS panel.

One more thing is particularly noteworthy for our less technical readers. Although this monitor is larger than say a 23", you won't get more stuff on your desktop. Again, the reason for this is that both the 23" and the ASUS 25.5" use the same resolution of 1920x1200. What you will get is a bigger gaming experience, bigger text (which is easier to read), bigger images, and so on. In other words, all the same stuff will look larger, and that's good.

ASUS VW266H Features

• Full HD 1080p for High-resolution Digital Content Display
• 16:10 wide screen with 1920×1200 resolution supports Full HD 1080p vision
• Embedded HDMI simplifies cabling and provides the highest-quality video and audio experience
• Built-in 3Wx2 hidden stereo speakers for multimedia enjoyment
• Night View Mode: brings out image details in scenes with limited light source as in the movies and games
• 25°( forward 5°, backwards 20° )Tilting Angle.
• 3-year system warranty
• 3-year panel warranty

VW266H Specifications

Testing & Results

Testing Methodology

I've owned this monitor for almost a year now. When I got it, I immediately tested it for dead and stuck pixels using simple online color swatches that help you identify stuck and dead pixels. To this day, I have not one dead or stuck pixel. If you need to perform this test yourself, just search for something like "LCD pixel test" and you should find more than enough information to do so.

I also own a 23" AOC TF 16:9 monitor and a 23" Philllips IPS 16:10 panel that I use side by side in a multiple monitor set up. What can I say? I used to use the Phillips IPS panel as my main display. Now I use the ASUS for my main display. It's that good. Out of all three of my monitors, one costing over 1200.00 USD, this is now my main display. The text is nice and crisp, games look brilliant, and for normal computing, it's nice to have a bigger picture and text too. I don't process images on it, though, when I'm processing for clients. That activity is reserved for the IPS panel, but for everything else, I use the ASUS. I would use it for processing if I had to, though, since as demonstrated, after calibration, it's color accuracy compared to my IPS panel was extremely close. I'd just need to be careful about positioning myself in front of the monitor, since TF panels shift contrast and color when moving in front of them.

Last, LCD panels are native resolution only really. In other words, the "native" resolution (1920x1200 for this monitor) is how the monitor should be used. Otherwise, text become somewhat blurry. Again, I was surprised by the ASUS at how well it scaled text when set to 1600x1200. It's almost indistinguishable. Still, you can tell the difference and will want to run the monitor in its native 190x1200 resolution. What's nice about this finding is that if you need to run your games in 1600, you can with hardly any text degradation.

Test System

• Motherboard: Gigabyte UD5 ver2
• System Memory: 12GB OCZ Gold Triple Channel: OCZ3G1600LV2G
• Processor: Intel Core 920
• Video: BFG GTX295
• Primary Drive: OCZ Vertex 2 60GB
• Monitor:ASUS VW266H
• Operating System:Windows 7 Ultimate
• AOC 23" TF 16:9 panel
• Phillips 23" 16:10 IPS panel

Results

There isn't one thing I can list that is a negative, except what was already discussed (and those items were not negatives but simply factual information about TF panels and resolution). As stated above, all TF panels suffer color shift and contrast washout when viewed from extreme angles, and some of the same even at marginal changes in viewing angle. On the other hand, if you view your monitor in front of you, you won't notice it, that is, unless you're doing high level graphics/photography work. This is the same phenomenon that you get when you flip open your laptop and move the screen forward and backwards. You can see the screen change color and contrast. It's no big deal. It's normal. Deal with it (or pay a lot more for an IPS panel with the same 16:10 aspect ratio).

Actually, I do have a gripe, also mentioned above. The navigation buttons frustrate me. That's it. Seriously, this monitor is that good. The OSD is well laid out, even if the button navigation isn't so hot. It comes with all of the cables you need, plus a power cord (believe it or not). When playing Crysis 2, Eve Online, and Mortal Online, plus watching videos, I see no ghosting at all. That's pretty much a thing of the past, though, but worth mentioning.

One other thing to remember is the resolution in relation to your graphics card. If you have an older video card and are using a resolution below 1920x1200, you may run into problems. Suddenly games you are playing at say 1680x1050 become choppy due to the extra load of 1920x1200 resolution on the old graphics card. So is this going to be a problem today? Probably not since even three years ago a 9800GTX card would push a resolution of 1920x1200 under most gaming conditions (You might have to lower options, but you get the picture).

All of this is speculative, however, because there are games out there that will tax even the most modern of cards, and do it at 1600 resolution. Games are now, thankfully, highly scalable and so you shouldn't have any problems finding a setting that will work for you. The point is that if you're stepping up in resolution, check your video card to make sure you can run the software you want to run. The higher the resolution, the more it will tax your video card. Mainly, this only applies to games, and the game specifications should tell you what type of card you will need to run at any specific resolution. Everything else you run, web browser, business apps, watching movies, and so on will most likely be fine.

ASUS Monitor Final Thoughts

When I was looking for a larger than 23" monitor I new I wanted a 16:10 aspect ratio that had at least 1920x1200 resolution. As I looked, it became obvious that the trend was to move from 16:10 to 16:9, and I dislike that trend. Although the ASUS VW266H is priced higher than a like sized monitor at 16:9, the increase in screen space in relation to cost was a pleasant surprise and well worth the few extra dollars.

While writing this article, I read where, indeed, the reason this monitor is hard to find is because it is in such demand, but again, I can't prove that. At 279.00 USD (plus the 30.00 USD rebate I received), it was, at least for me, a bargain. I suspect that in the coming months, you'll be able to get a monitor similar to this for even a better price, so keep looking if you're not in a hurry.

You're probably wondering why I haven't mentioned the internal speakers yet. Well, because they hardly merit any discussion, except to say, like all monitor speakers, they sound like cheap, tinny speakers. The reason manufacturers do this is because their competition does it. It's not because having speakers in computer monitor is a great idea, especially when you can pick a pair up for less than 20.00 USD that will give you better sound quality. On the other hand, if you're already stretching your budget, those internal monitor speakers may be a life saver.

Something else to think about is how big is too big for a specific resolution? As mentioned above, if 23" monitors are using a native resolution of 1920x1200, how big can you go until things get too grainy? I can't answer that question. My advise would be to read reviews and look directly at a monitor in a showroom, if possible, before you buy that new 27" with a 1920x1200 resolution.

ASUS VW266H Conclusion

The ASUSVW266H maintains the 16:10 aspect ratio so desired by computer enthusiasts, while keeping the price down to manageable levels. There are bigger monitors out there for around the same price tag, but not at this aspect ratio, so watch for that. Also watch for quality. We never know what goes into a manufacturer's offerings, but ASUS is a well respected company and the 266H has a great warranty.

Perhaps the trend for 16:10 25"+ TF monitors is to become even cheaper, much cheaper in fact than even a year ago. One example is the Hanns·G HZ281HPB Widescreen LCD Monitor reviewed here at Benchmark Reviews just last December. So keep that in mind. However, by the time ASUS fills the "out of stock" suppliers again, the price might be even be lower than 279.00 USD (plus the 30.00 USD rebate), when I bought this monitor. We'll have to wait and see.

You won't go wrong purchasing this monitor though. It's done everything I've needed to it do, play games, compute, light graphics work, and that big, big beautiful picture, plus the 3 year dead pixel warranty. Additionally, after color calibrating, the color is exceptionally accurate, at least compared to my Phillips 23" Brilliance IPS panel, and I was very impressed with its horizontal viewing angle.

As for the aesthetics of the ASUSVW266H, it's in line with most other monitors. It's black, thin bezeled, sleek, clean. What more can you say, right? At least that's better than the trend a few years ago that used a silver bezel.

I have no qualms with the quality of this monitor. I've been using it everyday, 8-10 hours a day and have had not one problem with it. It came without one dead or hot pixel and today it remains the same. Remember too that I have two other monitors for caparison sake: the Phillips 23" IPS 16:10 graphics panel and a 23" AOC standard 16:9 panel. From a quality perspective, it's just as nicely built as the other two.

Functionally speaking, it's a monitor on a monitor stand that functions like any other monitor today. It's adequate and I don't know what could be done to make it any better, except to put it on a monitor arm, like I have done. The only thing that bothers me a little is the OSD navigation, but that's a minor issue. Once you play with it for a while, you get the hang of it.

When I bought this monitor, it was the cheapest thing going for a quality name brand 16:10 25.5" LCD panel at 279.00 USD. After nearly a year, it's still going strong without one problem, it shipped without any pixel problems, and it remains so today.

Pros:

+ Big screen
+ Price
+ Build Quality
+ Accurate color for a TF panel
+Really good horizontal view angle + Realiable
+ No dead or stuck pixels
+ 16:10 aspect ratio
+ Very good set of adjustment options, including "user" for R,G,B adjustments.
+ 3 year warranty for dead or stuck pixels

Cons:

- Hard to find
- It's a TF panel
- Backlight bleed
- Internal speakers
- No USB ports
- Frustrating OSD navigation

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