ViewSonic VA2719-2K-SMHD 27 Inch IPS 2K 1440p LED Monitor with Ultra-Thin Bezels, HDMI and DisplayPort Inputs for Home and Office

It’s okay

Great value for a 27 inch with 1440p resolution. The bezel is fairly thin and looks nice when used in multi display. I am using two of these in portrait mode and the 1440 resolution is plenty large enough for the standard web page at full desktop resolution (which is typically anywhere from 1000-1600px, with most being at ~1400px range). The 1440p resolution is much better than 1080p monitors which will be restrictive in their horizontal capacity when placed into portrait mode.The brightness is good and color quality seems fine to me. I am not extremely particular on this as it doesn't effect my productivity and at this value you can't complain too much anyway. I ordered the first monitor to make sure it would fit in my pre-existing monitor mount as well as see if it looked good, of course, at least compared to my other monitors. Compared to the ASUS VG248's that these replaced: these were much brighter and showed better color. Deeper looking blacks. Better viewing angle. Compared to my fairly new Dell monitors these are on par, possibly slightly lesser in, quality and "vibrance" I would call (as a non videophile). However the Dell monitors were 50%+ more expensive. And being that I am continually upgrading my workstation I tend to always go with the lower-end models.ViewSonic is a great monitor brand and I still have a 19' ViewSonic from the early 2000's maybe older I forget, which still works flawlessly to this day - while I've had many others over the years give out, even with much less usage than the ViewSonic. Their newer craftsmanship and products seem to be made with the same care. Which I've learned comes from companies that care about their products not just profits, which is what we need more of.

I ordered a pair of these monitors in an attempt to upgrade my dual-screen KVM system to higher 2560x1440 resolution. My old system used DVI and this uses DisplayPort + 2 HDMI, and I tried two different KVM switches and neither of them worked properly with DisplayPort connections, so I had to end up plugging one system into the monitors DisplayPort and the other into HDMI and manually switch the inputs. This is why my biggest complaint is about the design: Who thought it would be a good idea to not just make the manual input-switching feature something at least a 4-button process in an on-screen menu - which you can't bring up if there isn't at least one working input? (I only had to press one button on my old monitor to switch inputs) And then thought it would be a better idea to put the FIVE buttons that are used to turn on power and set options on the BACK of the monitor instead of the front or bottom? I seriously have to reach under and press three different buttons on the back of the monitor a minimum of four times to switch inputs or turn it on or off. Extremely annoying, especially when it cycles through every input for several seconds whenever you turn it on. The video quality in this monitor is excellent though, but it doesn't look so great when viewed from an angle.The speakers on this monitor are terrible, and I also use a Roku stick in my setup that I plug into HDMI and run the audio out to a speaker. The audio out on this monitor doesn't work properly. I got two different monitors from two different batches and both have the same problem: I can get the audio out to work with an external speaker, but if I unplug that audio cable or try running it through a KVM switch, the monitor stops sending audio through the audio out jack. The internal speakers are still off, and even if you unplug and replug the speaker, I cannot get audio out to work again unless I unplug my audio, the monitor's power supply, the Roku stick, and its power supply. Seriously. Just restarting the Roku doesn't even fix it, it's a problem with the monitor. On two separate monitors. How hard is it to design an analog audio output jack that works without needing to unplug the monitor?I've owned ViewSonics in the past, so I assumed this would be another great one, but alas it is not. I'm giving it 4 stars for the decent video quality (if you look straight at it and not at an angle) and terrible feature controls and audio, but even that's being generous. If you're only going to use it for video on a single computer and don't care about audio or multiple inputs, you'll be fine.

I needed a good monitor to replace an older one that was starting to flake out. Being a Mac guy, I looked at their monitors and quickly realized their prices put them far out of the range of my budget. My Mac expert friend recommended this ViewSonic and it's perfect for my needs...great picture quality and it has a tiltable screen feature, which my previous ViewSonic didn't have and which I consider a necessity. I haven't calibrated it but the "Standard" setting seems fine.A couple of quibbles...the unit does not come with a remote, which is fine, but the row of adjustment buttons along the lower right of the screen are a little counter-intuitive to use until you get used to them. There was no manual, only a quick-start guide, but the manual is available online (and I'm finding that to be the case with more and more consumer electronics products). The sound quality of the speakers is pretty mediocre; if you want high-quality audio, use external speakers, but the built-in audio is serviceable for things like Zoom calls. It was easy to set up. I'm happy with it.

Bought this almost 4 years ago, still working amazing, good quality monitor.

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I've been using ViewSonic monitors for something like 10 years now, and outfitted my office of 360 people with dual 24" 1080p monitors or single 28" 1080p monitors. I bought two of these 27" 1440p monitors personally for my home office and they are incredible. The only problem I had was that my OEM dock that I bought for my executive level laptop doesn't support more than one external monitor displaying at more than 1080p. Odd - because the brochure says the video card will run up to three at even higher levels. It's not the monitors fault though. I just run one 1440p and an older 1080p (10 years old!) through the dock and the other 1440p directly from the laptop. I considered other monitors that were even higher resolution - but the value of these can't be beat. If your system can handle the higher resolution - then two or three of these are bettter than s single 4k, and cost so much less.