GadgetRatty: Is ViewSonic's New 26" Display Too Cheap to be Good?

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Is ViewSonic's New 26" Display Too Cheap to be Good?

2008-07-01 04:24:27 by Charlie Sorrel in Gadget Lab

ViewSonic has announced a new monster sized 26" LCD monitor, and it's cheap enough to make us worry. The $530 display will show 1080p images (the resolution is 1920x1200 pixels), offers a contrast ratio of 6000:1 and has HDMI, VGA and DVI inputs.

The problem? I no longer trust cheap monitors. I bought a cheap-o 22" Acer AL2218W a few months ago, and it's a piece of junk. Out of the box I had a bright blue stuck pixel, the fluorescent backlight bleeds white and makes the corners glow and the picture, next to that of my MacBook, is dull and flat. This isn't to knock Acer. It's a complaint about cheap LCD panels.

And the cheap ViewSonic adds in another worry: built in, 2.5 watt speakers. All these spec-sheet extras usually point to one thing: a poor quality core product. Still, I could well be wrong as I haven't even seen one yet. 26" is a good sized screen, and if you're using it to view movies from a cross the room, even my imagined problems won't be noticed.

Press release [ViewSonic via Crave]