ViewSonic VX2729wm 1ms

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ViewSonic has debatably fallen off its alight in the TFT monitor market in current years. Its monitors were once the wonderful choice for gamers, being reasonable yet capable and were the first TFTs for many enthusiasts making the move from their desk-hogging CRTs. As response times dipped below 16ms and monitors went widescreen, though, the competition became pretty ferocious and we've only seen one or two monitors from Viewsonic in the last few years that were worth considering at all. Perhaps it’s because ViewSonic has been championing 3D displays which have pretty calamitous image quality.





The VX2739WM continues to inflate the sleek-looking, TN panel-based range of monitors that ViewSonic has been agitated out for a while. The main selling points are a 1ms response time (the fastest we've ever seen claimed for a TFT) and also a large 27 inch 16:9 viewable screen, although the native resolution is only 1,920 x 1,080, unlike the Dell U2711 which, although it had an aspect ratio of 16:10, managed to cram a tremendous 2,560 x 1,440 panel into its 27 inch diagonal area.

The looks are perhaps the most pleasurable part of the peripheral. The stand is simple, flimsy and not predominantly effectual at keeping the huge panel still, with the smallest amount knock to the desk resulting in a conspicuous tremble. This is made all the more evident due to the lustrous bezel. It's not going to topple over backwards if you sneeze, but it would have been nice to see a sturdier stand on such a hefty monitor. There's also little in the way of adjustment, with just 25 degrees of tilt available. With no height adjustment obtainable, the idea is you tilt the screen to your liking. The thing is, monitors are best viewed head on with your head level. As an alternative you'll need to find some magazines to stack under the VX2739WM's stand to raise it if necessary. If it's too high to start with, well you're stuck. It really is a fundamental sin given you'll be using the monitor every time you use your PC. With this fact in mind, the lack of height adjustment means you're taking a risk as to whether you'll find it comfortable and we deduce for some, the VX2739WM just fell off the end of your shopping list.


The Viewsonic VX2739wm will soon offer a new device in the 27-inch class. In addition to 1080p resolution (1,920 x 1,080 pixels), it advertises the producer with an incredibly low response time of one millisecond. To achieve this value, Viewsonic is forced on the TN-established technique. Although this has disadvantages in the color stability, but allows low response times for a very reasonable price - in the case for about 350 €.

Viewsonic VX2739wm Test - the equipment

Because of the of 27" in 16:9 format, the screen is significantly larger than the incumbent monitors games of 22-inch class. The device measures 648 x 490 x 251Millimeter sets around on plastic, some with piano finish - a few silver applications still provide a certain value. On the front, only the power switch is located, the controls for the OSD are on the right. On the back of the connections are right and left to stand next to the base bracket. With a classic D-Sub connector has the VX2739wm also each have a HDMI and a DVI port to - there are two audio ports, USB ports, speakers and power supply. The processing is priced according to the unspectacular. The only adjustment for the monitor position, the device offers a tilt of -5 to +20 degrees.

Viewsonic VX2739wm Test - the image quality

In terms of image quality must be at TN devices generally take a cut in - this technique is not designed for image editing and color fastness is generally not on the program, in comparison to the competition but still refer to as well. Even with a favorable tool for color calibration can enhance the result is well - for amateur photographers, it is still useful as a last resort, players interested in this little, if at all. The brightness distribution of the Viewsonic VX2739wm is acceptable - the deviation from the center is 15 to 17 percent and falls with the naked eye to spot. FYI: LCDs use a few lights and "distribution areas" provide to every possible area with light. This can lead to big savings at excessive brightness differences which manifest themselves as dark areas. The Viewsonic VX2739wm is in this discipline, however, no problems.

Something you have to make compromises with the other hand, interpolation, no matter whether you're working with native aspect ratio, or whether you want to work in 4:3 mode, fonts are represented mostly faded, at least on one axle. The result is not catastrophic, but tends rather satisfactory - who so often want to play at lower resolutions, we recommend to perform the device. Also in the frame, the power consumption of 48 watts at full brightness it goes back to around 2 watts in standby mode. As the viewing angle of 170/160 degrees are Viewsonic, these data confirm we certainly, as even a fairly steep angles the picture is not extremely losing quality. Also positive is the range of brightness, the display provides 35-310 Candela, it can thus be prepared for all game situations - only in direct sunlight is not enough from the maximum brightness.

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Viewsonic VX2739wm Test - the reaction rate

The maximum reaction rate can rise no joy to say the least. With the maximum setting are indeed achievable in the real world no one-millisecond values, and you end up in about 10 milliseconds, but the bow waves and artifacts, especially in light transitions are ugly. Playable, yes, nice to look at, no. Luckily, you can manually select between three settings. At the slowest setting, the display is around 27 milliseconds, fast-moving streaks are visible. In the central position it has minimal artifacts, but also a minimal streaks - in numbers it is 14-17 milliseconds. If we choose the moderate reaction rate, making even fast FPS or racing games mood - with this setting is the Viewsonic VX2739wm full for games.

FYI: To reach the very low response times, must TN panels use the overdrive technology. In the pixels of the panel to override artificially in order to turn quickly - trying to anticipate the electronics, which will shortly be changed pixels. Too stark settings, this leads to miscalculation and the aforementioned contrast edges. In theory, it is true values by 1 millisecond possible, in practice we would like to do that to such a distorted picture, however.

The new 16:9 screen from Viewsonic holds not complete, which promises the marketing department, but this is the gambler does not matter - the values achieved are perfectly acceptable, even with fast games and the picture quality is good. Only the interpolation and the equipment could be successful. The device will probably come for 350 € on the market, the street price is expected to level setting at 300 € - an acceptable price, but also with broad-based competition.

Performance

Following on from the utilitarian exterior, the OSD is much an identical story. It's easy to find the way thanks to a simple set of buttons, but what was a little disquieting was that all the color bars in the color controls were set to greatest already. If the display dims a little over time, you won't be able to dapper it up. This point is more than a little concerning, as when we first fired up the VX2739WM and looked at some games we would unquestionably have liked to be able to boost the colors as they looked washed out and very bland. Brightness too was previously set to maximum, although the VX2739WM did prove bright enough in all of our tests.

With adjustments limited to color, brightness and contrast and most of these already set to greatest, we were left with little option but to continue testing. We've already mentioned that games looked washed out, exclusively there was an apparently lack of contrast and vibrancy with Crysis looking particularly life-less compared to even basic IPS monitors such as the NEC MultiSync EA231WMi. Video playback was much the same, although we were overwhelmed by the level of element in dark areas making an allowance for this is a TN panel - it was lacking in the Lagom image test suite but movies did look immense on the large screen.

Something else we were predicting, but didn't really knowledge, were loss of sharpness given the resolution on such a large panel. The Dell U2711 is incontrovertibly sharper and the extra space on the desktop was the most conspicuous advantage here thanks to its higher resolution, but the VX2739WM didn't fare too badly, even when looking at photos full-size.

It's an embarrassment then that the colors are slightly lacking as this could be a much cheaper option than the Dell for large screen photo editing. For web browsing its ideal though. Text is even and comprehensible and the color issues are less evident and of course there's plenty of room. However, we did notice a fair amount of backlight bleeding, predominantly in the corners and at the top.

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Gamers will be happy to read this news, because the response time monitor is a very important time to capture the action happens in the virtual world, and Viewsonic is just to satisfy this requirement with the new VX2739wm. The model boasts of being the first in the world to offer 27-inch 1ms response time, as other models with that figure arrived at screen sizes below.

The LCD panel has a resolution Full HD 1080p delivering a dynamic contrast ratio of 100,000:1 and using an anti-glare technology, and includes a pair of integrated speakers to be used in other applications besides a PC monitor, as consoles or DVDs. In terms of connectivity, including HDMI, DVI and VGA, always useful than a four-port USB hub, which makes this product a fairly complete solution.

Serves name VX2739wm and just came to beat records. Not only talk about a good 27-inch monitor with Full HD resolution, but rather they represent the world's fastest team to reach the impressive figure of 1ms response time . These are the two major strengths of the latter submitted by the home team ViewSonic.

Equipped with a TN panel, 1920x1080 pixel resolution, has an aspect ratio of 16:9 and a contrast of 1200:1, which together with a brightness of 300 cd/m2, an estimated life of 50,000 hours and their two-speaker system of 2w each team makes it ideal not only for play but for all types of content. Vision that is reinforced by integrating HDMI 1.3 and DVI-D (HDCP) so you can connect to all types of video sources.

The best pixel performance guarantee and 3 year warranty

One of the aspects that make a bazaar leader in ViewSonic displays is its enthusiasm to superiority ViewSonic is committed to use the maximum grade panels and offer the unsurpassed pixel policy presentation in the market. We also back our displays with 3-year warranty for your tranquility of mind.

[MaggieK]

Nice design, but for me personally, too high a price. So with my two LG W2261VP Monis it is 2ms, but cost only about half (at 22 and 21.5" diagonal). “The maximum reaction rate can rise no joy to say the least. With the maximum setting are indeed achievable in the real world no one-millisecond values, and you end up in about 10 milliseconds, but the bow waves and artifacts, especially in light transitions are ugly. Playable, yes, nice to look at, no. Luckily, you can manually select between three settings. At the slowest setting, the display is around 27 milliseconds, fast-moving streaks are visible. In the central position it has minimal artifacts, but also a minimal streaks - in numbers it is 14-17 milliseconds. If we choose the moderate reaction rate, making even fast FPS or racing games mood - with this setting is the Viewsonic VX2739wm full for games. ” I liked this very much.

[RogerFielden]

The reaction rate refers to the speed of how quickly change the pixel color - and that is not important, as in the article already written, obtained with less overdrive a much better picture without ugly fringing. inputlag is the long, how long does the visual signal to be displayed on the display. Since Schema can take up to 20-50ms. This is of course much more important, but unfortunately almost never tested, instead ..