ViewSonic Graphics Series CRTs

[Skotty]

I've just about lost all faith in ViewSonic as a company.

At work, we have quite a few ViewSonic CRT monitors. Some of them are Graphics Series (mostly G810s), others are Profressional Series. All of the Graphics Series monitors look like crap. The most common problem is fuzzy picture, most notable with text at high resolutions. This problem does not exist in the Professional Series.

I therefore managed to get my Graphics Series monitor replaced with a new Professional Series monitor. However, it died after less than a year of service. So we sent it in under warranty to be fixed. They call back at what seems like months later to ask if we would take a white monitor; otherwise we would have to wait for the black one to be fixed. We said we would wait on the black monitor, being uncertain what garbage we would get if we accepted the white one.

Another few weeks go by. Guess what they sent us? A dusty, 500 year old looking Graphics series monitor. The picture is dull, and the color occasionally flickers with a blue tint. iirc it's a g225f. I am so pissed. Their monitors are proving to be low quality, unreliable, and apparently their service department can't be trusted.

Anyone else think ViewSonic is the Wal-Mart of monitors? I'm thinking of just buying my own monitors for work since my employer insists on buying ViewSonic.

 

[Matts0344]

I only owned 1 viewsonic CRT, It had a problem with this curvy line going down the screen, sent it to viewsonic for them to fix it, after a couple of months it came back, I through it out and am using an LCD now. Don't think I will ever go back to CRTs.

 

[Zstream]

Originally posted by: Skotty
I've just about lost all faith in ViewSonic as a company.

At work, we have quite a few ViewSonic CRT monitors. Some of them are Graphics Series (mostly G810s), others are Profressional Series. All of the Graphics Series monitors look like crap. The most common problem is fuzzy picture, most notable with text at high resolutions. This problem does not exist in the Professional Series.

I therefore managed to get my Graphics Series monitor replaced with a new Professional Series monitor. However, it died after less than a year of service. So we sent it in under warranty to be fixed. They call back at what seems like months later to ask if we would take a white monitor; otherwise we would have to wait for the black one to be fixed. We said we would wait on the black monitor, being uncertain what garbage we would get if we accepted the white one.

Another few weeks go by. Guess what they sent us? A dusty, 500 year old looking Graphics series monitor. The picture is dull, and the color occasionally flickers with a blue tint. iirc it's a g225f. I am so pissed. Their monitors are proving to be low quality, unreliable, and apparently their service department can't be trusted.

Anyone else think ViewSonic is the Wal-Mart of monitors? I'm thinking of just buying my own monitors for work since my employer insists on buying ViewSonic.

I has one problem with viewsonic and that is a 17 inch LCD with 5 dead pixels.

The CRT's are decent but nothing great, most above average LCD's IMO are equal to a CRT.

 

[liquid51]

I'm not much of a viewsonic fan either. I'm still using a 17" A72F CRT. I hate this thing. It does the same thing your garbage series were doing, so I'm stuck at 10x7 just so I can read without getting a headache .
Thats ok, as soon as my new vid card and westy arrives, I'ma kick it to the curb!

 

[BernardP]

I am still using my Pro Series Viewsonic PF775

Bought it for $550 (Canadian) in April 2000, so Happy Seventh Birthday.

The thing looks as good as when it was new. Never had a hint of trouble. So maybe writing this will make it die, so that I can go and buy myself a nice big LCD...

Still good or not, I am getting a widescreen LCD before 2007 is over. Thereis a downside to buying higher-quality components: It's harder to justify replacing them

I remember I came so close to buying a Sony Profeel CRT. If I had, I would still be using it. :disgust:

 

[yhelothar]

That sounds pretty bad.
I used to have an IBM P275 CRT that had a bit of issues with sharpness at higher brightness levels. I called up IBM, and they 2nd Day air'ed me one immediately, no questions asked. Along with the replacement monitor, they provided a return shipping label, so that to return the old monitor, all I had to do was to call fedex to pick it up.
No hassles whatsoever.
Viewsonic does suck.

 

[Pugnate]

I used to own the VX922 and now the VX2235. Enjoyed both of them for the most part.

 

[BassBomb]

If you want a good CRT, grab a Sony AG monitor.

I had an old Optiquest(Now aka Viewsonic) Q71, which I retired when I got a LCD.

Once I decided to dual monitor, I brought it up and the difference was astonishing. The CRT was considerably bad.

So I devled into my basement, found a rebadged Dell (Sony) CRT and it was 100x better.

 

[PingSpike]

I have an old viewsonic 19" that I bought for $15 last year from work. Its picture is a bit blurry. My wife has no complaints though, she runs her PC at 1024x768 anyway.

My current monitor is a vx2235 from costco. I don't really have any complaints, although he bezel is kind of stupid looking.

I don't know if I would call them trash, but it seems like they used to be a name that meant a quality monitor. I feel they are middle of the pack. I wish costco had carried a samsung when I went monitor shopping.

 

[bigsnyder]

Yeah, the good CRTs dried up about 4-5yrs ago. I picked up a refurbed Viewsonic P95f+ about two years ago.
One of the last high quality CRTs made.

 

[JRW]

Ive only owned one Viewsonic monitor for a brief period , I ordered a P95F+ brand new off Newegg.com and although it had a nice vibrant picture there were wavy lines present towards the top half of the screen (not related to moire adjustments) ,im not sure what kind of defect it was, also text etc. was blurry towards the sides of the screen which turned out to be *normal* for this model because it had a vertical pitch rating of .25mm in the center and .27mm on the sides. (my bad for overlooking this spec) It was annoying just looking at the system clock in the bottom right corner due to the loss of focus, I ended up sending it back and paying the differance for a 21" Sony G520P (link to specs here) which turned out to be an excellent monitor, it has a crystal clear image with no variance in focus throughout the screen due to being .24mm vertical pitch corner to corner.

I gave the G520P to my mom but it still works like new (about 4 years old).