Product Description

ViewSonic¿s 22" VX2262wm widescreen LCD offers the perfect balance

Product Details

• Color: Black
• Brand: ViewSonic
• Model: VX2262WM
• Platform: Windows
• Format: CD
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 12.35 pounds
• Native resolution: 22
• Display size: 22

Features

• Full 22" viewable widescreen with 1680x1050 resolution
• Images leap from the screen with Super-HD 1680x1050 resolution and video response as fast as 2ms
• 20,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio delivers richer detail
• The SRS WOW HD sound* powerfully complements your games, movies and otheR multimedia applications
• Demanding designers, professionals and gamers will love the sophisticated performance of the 22" VX2262wm

Customer Reviews

Simply fantastic, with 1 very minor drawback
Ok, I'll make this short and sweet.
After ordering the monitor, it took no more than what was estimated (5th business day) which is seemingly a rare quality when ordering online now.

The monitor itself has a glossy black metallic look to it (if you're into a contemporary, yet 'WOW!' styled look, this is it!). The image quality isn't perfect when you first set up the monitor, but within 2 minutes of playing with the buttons on the monitor for settings, you can fix it to your preference easily. (anyone who says otherwise doesn't have a graphics card that can support this resolution and refresh rate in a reliable fashion; I have the Radeon 4870 HD and it works flawlessly with it)

Now to mention the drawback, which is so minor that it's unfortunate for me to even have to be mentioned, but it must. In my package I got all the parts included for the quick assembly EXCEPT the screw for the stand (trust me, I looked quite hard for it). Without the screw, the sand will hang over from side to side as if it was placed in a ball-socket joint. Thankfully, it's a quick-fix as the screw-hole is a standard size (don't remember dimensions, but it's nothing hard to find in a hardware store). I just grabbed a look-alike screw from my bin of extra's in the garage and sized it down with a grinding stone so it would be short enough to not stick out of the stand.

All-in-All I can't believe this thing is only 200$! It's definitely a 400-500$ monitor, easily. If you're tempted to buy this, don't hesitate! Who knows how long this price'll last.

Good monitor, a few minor problems
About 3 years ago I bought a Viewsonic VX922 monitor, and recently it only works intermittently when tested on several PC's, it won't come on reliably. If you turn it off and on 30 or 40 times it will eventually come on, but then at any moment it will go off again. I'm told this is probably a damaged component in the monitor from heat. So I bought a Viewsonic VX2262wm and it came today. The only problem I had with it was very odd, and that was the enclosed disk with the drivers was warped! That was a new one on me, to get a warped driver disk with such a nice monitor (and it does appear to be a very nice monitor). So I went to the Viewsonic website to find the drivers. I always just put my model number in the search box on their website and that usually works. Well, not today. First confusion occurred when I checked the back of the monitor for the exact model number. It says Viewsonic VX2262wm-2 on the back BUT below that it says "model VS12132". Attempting to find the drivers using all three of these numbers, the VX2262wm with and without the -2 and the VS12132 do not bring up the drivers. I called Viewsonic and told them this, so hopefully it will be fixed by the time anyone reads this, the person agreed it needed to be fixed. So OK I'll do it the manual way, go to Support, Downloads and find it there. Opps, sorry, no can do. I walked through this with Viewsonic on the phone and the girl was as mystified as I was. Finally, after being on hold quite a while, she said go to Products, Desktop Monitors, Size, 22", and then scroll down to VX2262wm and lucky me, there was the driver. After downloading the driver I asked the person that since my PC had set up my monitor with generic drivers, how did I get the PC with WindowsXP to realize I had new drivers installed? Telling the PC to detect new hardware didn't work. Plug and Play didn't work for me; it didn't say "new hardware found, do you wish to install drivers". The young lady had no idea whatsoever. So I nicely said good bye and called back today July 7th, 2009 and got another "monitor tech support expert". I said OK I've downloaded the drivers for my monitor, and I want my monitor to use these new drivers, how do I tell XP to recognize them? He said, "You don't need the Viewsonic drivers." Oh ho! Wow, and all this time I'd be under the false impression that they were somehow useful and I needed them. I guess driver conflicts are something not to worry about. I'm kidding, of course. Viewsonic has good reasons to keep their drivers up to date, and there are good reasons to use the correct drivers with your monitor, especially for us gamers. So I called back twice and talked to two more Viewsonic employees. Both of them could not find the drivers for me on the website as the first young lady had, and both of them couldn't tell me anything about what to do after downloading my new drivers. It's all very simple, you go to the control panel, go to System, Hardware, Device Manager, open Monitors which should have a drop down to whatever driver your monitor is currently using, in my case it was "Plug and Play Monitor", you right click on this and choose Update Driver. As you've downloaded the new driver to your computer pick search for drivers, it takes a while but it should automatically find the new drivers you've downloaded and install them for you. Now when I look at device manager under monitors it says Viewsonic VX2262wm Series. I shouldn't complain about Viewsonic. They answered their phones each time instantaneously which is wonderful compared to other companies where you might wait a very long time. And the people all tried hard to help me, and spoke English, which is also refreshing. They were courteous to me as well and seemed somewhat embarrassed when they couldn't answer my questions. I just hope this monitor lasts longer than the last one, although I guess in our throw away society three years is about average.

Great Deal~!
I am completely satisified with my new monitor! Best deal on the web ! Not one merchant even came close to the discount that Amazon gave me!