Monitor Reviews

I bought my P95F+B a few days ago.

The good: Flat panel. With adjustment, you can get the picture right out to the edges. The color is fantastic - especially in games. The ultra-bright button really makes games pop. The aperture grill bars are almost unnoticable.

The bad: The base doesn't mount into the unit. You have to struggle to get the monitor to sit on the base. After you ajust the H/V/Geometry settings they seem to get lost.

The ugly: Wow, the text just sucks. I have a largish mushy spot a little southwest of center. Text becomes a problem at any resolution above 1024x768. The refresh rates will go higher than 85Hz, but raising them does not solve anything.

I'm returning this as soon as the shop I bought it from has a G90 in stock - although I've heard bad things about those as well. When you are looking at monitors, make the salespeople turn off the crappy movie they always use to demo and pull up Outlook or this web page. Take a good close look at the text before choosing the monitor and opening your wallet.

I wish I had stuck with a CRT Monitor, but I wanted one of the slim new LCD monitors. I found that this one is hard to view. It doesn't scroll well and you have to view from a certain angle to be able to see the screen.

A big problem is that the screen flickers, sometimes with different colored hues. The defect makes the monitor hard to view. I'll have to send it back to the manufacturer for repair or replacement.

I initially bought an LG 15" LCD however it had large dark spots so I swapped it for a Viewsonic VE510s.

Initially I thought this had a better picture than the LG. It has excellent brightness and strong colours. However the backlighting is not constant, with an obvious dull patch covering much of the top 2cm of the screen. This is especially obvious on my Mac, as the tool bar is normally white, not gray. Another issue is the picture seems to be finely interlaced. This is only really obvious on blue background pictures and log-on screens.

For the money it isn't too bad, although I wouldn't buy another one.

I purchased this plasma display after my Phillips FlatScreen fell off the ceiling. The resolution is comparable to most high-definition entertainment systems, but you're obviously buying this for the kitchyness of owning a 42" "plasma" something. I would certainly wait for this technology to advance a couple of years before dropping this amount of cash.

I bought two of these. One died after 3 months, so I sent it in to get fixed. When I got it back it worked well. Now they are both broke. The good news is that Microtek is replacing them with a new model(c593). Hopefully that one works better.

The monitor performed well, screen was crisp and clean and bright, but it died after two months of service. Tech Support is a toll number that is no longer in service. Despite the three year warranty, it will be a challenge to get this repaired, not to mention the inconvenience. I would recommend another unit.

Although the 1024 x 768 res at 75 Hz produces a relatively crisp picture with incredible color, the lower 800 x 600 res is very blurry. I plan to compare other lcd monitors in the next few days and will quite likely return this monitor. Otherwise, the monitor has great controls, looks very sweet, is very stable with its well-designed pedestal base, is a fine gray/silver color, and uses at most the power a 30-watt light bulb pulls.

Hi Folks,

The big problem is that Viewsonic calls this a Home Wireless solution. If the NEVO doesn't come bundled with the airpanel then you can't get it seperate. I have tried endlessly to get this option. Don't purchase. Find another solution.

I'm disapointed, because it's not easy to set up installation. Connection to one of my computers depended on some "codes" of access, one of wich was easy (setting up a code to each user logging in Windows). The other one was almost impossible to me, and it worked in one of my computers and not in the other.
The MAIN DISAPOINTMENT, tough, is the FALSE afirmation that it could run as Remote Control for all appliances in the house. Viewsonic and Nevo says that (Nevo even has some sites showing it) but NEITHER ONE of them gives you or sell you the IR adaptor anymore. So forget it. You can't use it as a Nevo Remote Control. I bought for that purpose, so that's why I'm giving bad review for this product. I'm having some fun with it, but I'm not in the MOOD to tell that.

Not worth it. Get an iPAQ...

Ghosting was unbearable on my 17" monitor when plugged into this extension. Did a little research and found the product information for this F2N025-06 cable on the Belkin Website. The last bullet item states: "NOTE: Will only work on monitors smaller than 17 inches."

Sure wish I had seen this information on the Belkin site before I wasted my time and money.

This review is for the Belkin F2N025 6 Ft PC Monitor Extension cable. I start off saying this because if you read many of the other reviews listed here...you will see that the reviewers are talking about other types of extension cables, like for their printer or keyboard. Those cables are very different, and serve a much less demanding purpose.

Video cables are very sensitive to RFI interference. Just look at the cable that came with your monitor; it's very thick (at least twice as thick as this Belkin model)) and it has one or two ferrite clamps (those round large objects near the end of the cable.

This monitor extension cable is not a good one. It causes ghosting of images on the monitor and fuzzy text. I imagine this is because the cable is very thin and not shielded. Also the cable may be in need of an additional ferrite core to go around one end of it. That is the way most cables are assembled which come directly with new monitors. This ferrite core serves to block out RFI interference just as shielding on a cable does. They both work in different ways and are synergistic in their effect on interference.

I tried this cable on three different monitors in different locations and each time the text was ghosting and fuzzy. BTW, when I hooked those monitors directly to the same video cards (without the extension cable) the images and text were again clear and sharp. This cable just isn't very well designed.

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Fuzzy video and ghosting when used at 1280x1024 pixels, 85hz refresh rate. Slightly better but still unacceptable at 70hz.

My wife bought me this as a birthday present. I opened it up and switched it on to find the screen was not working - it was half white-out. I returned the item and got a replacement which had a different problem. I contacted Kogi technical support, who we actually there to talk to but the problem persisted. I am now shipping back for a full refund. I advise people not to waste there time on this product.

Very poor quality product - in the TV mode the unit was not worth watching. I returned it the day I received it. Don't waste your time or money.

Overall I'm pretty happy with my monitor. I use with an IBM ThinkPad X31 in a small dorm room, and it gives me a much better picture quality than the IBM's built-in monitor. Screen clarity / quality is fine, compared to the EIZO monitor I used at work. TV quality is not superb, but that's probably due to the fact that I don't have cable in my room.

I have the same exact problem everybody else did!! I used it for a little over a year, it was awesome while it lasted... then I get that same problem. Black Screen , only a white horizontal line in the middle. Thats it. When you turn it on sometimes it works for like 90 seconds, and then goes bad again. It's way too much hassle to send it back, I'll just throw this in the trash and get a new one, from another brand of course.

Stay away from this product.

Don't buy this. I bought it also based on PC mag reviews that it was an excellent monitor for the price. I've had it maybe a year and now I have the exact same problems everyone else has mentioned, flickering and complete loss of picture.
I'm a bit irked that I'm out 200+ bucks, however, if my option is to pay $60 to send this one back, get someone else's broken monitor and then get told it's my fault, I might as well kick it to the curb and buy one from another company.
Now I'm temporarily using the 6+ year old dell monitor that came with an old computer while I decide what to buy.

I purchased this monitor based on the recommendation from PC World magazine as one of the top rated monitors (Jan 2003). I was very happy until April of 2004. I now get flickering and tearing at both the top and bottom edges of the screen. Occasionally, I lose the whole picture and it goes completely black except for a very bright thin horizontal line in the center of my screen. If I hit the monitor on the side a few times, the picture comes back (for a while). I don't know how much longer this will work, however. I fear it will soon completely die.

The monitor is still under warrantee, but from what I understand, you must contact NEC and give them a credit card # for security, and they will send you a refurbished replacement. Once you get it, you must then box up the old monitor and send it to them at your expense (probably around $60). If they determine the problem is from damage or neglect, they charge your credit card for the replacement. If not, I guess they fix up the broken one enough to give away to another customer who has problems.

I'm thinking it would be better just to write it off as a bad purchase and buy another brand.

This unit can almost never lock onto a satelite. When it does it is innaccurate. I am returning it.

This is one of the worst GPS units I have used. The keys are not intuitive, the battery cover does not fit correctly (how can it be IPX7 water resistant compliant as advertised?), the unit loses GPS lock, when GPS lock is lost it cannot reacquire it.

The screens are nice in that you can configure the information, but the unit is not as flexible as say a Magellan Meridian.

I am new to the GPS user world and had high hopes for this unit. Its primary use was going to be simple for hunting & hiking help. I have read several negative reports that describe fairly accurately the same troubles I have. To be brief, my complaints are: Accuracy - horizontally off by 100 to 500 ft, vertically (altimeter) off by up to thousands of feet; Satellite lock - unreliable no matter what is or is not overhead, even on clear days; Tracking - unit seems to freeze after first waypoint direction is established, but walking in that direction the unit does not always update and is unreliable.

I have other Cobra products that are great, however the most disappointing thing about thie unit is that the advertisement of features is at best inaccurate and at worst misleading. It seems that the unit is working like the rest, but certainly without the improved capabilities expounded by Cobra.

Update: Cobra replaced the unit with a new one with no questions asked. Still problematic but due to Cobra Customer Service being proactive, I raised the rating.