ASUS VW266H 25.5-Inch Widescreen LCD Monitor – Black
Saturday, January 16th, 2010 at
2:43 am
High end gaming, Full HD, HDMI, Component Input, SPDIF out, 2ms and 3Wx2 Build in Speaker
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Like it a lot. I bought one to go with my Asus VW246H 24″ 16:9 and liked it so much I snagged a second VW266h 25.5″. The but comes in for several reasons. Both VW266h displays suffered from a bluish tint. Different batches manufactured several months apart. Issue has been reported by others in several forums. Calibration is the cure. A hueypro calibrator took care of it just fine. The huey pro is not as automatic as one thinks, even after setting the monitor back to defaults it took several attempts to get “close enough” matching for dual VW266H displays. The blue tinge was quite noticeable when the VW266H was next to my VW246H. More than likely you will need a calibrator to make the VW266H look as great as it can. You might not notice if you are running just a single monitor and are not very computer savvy.
The second issue is that it is 1920×1200 and 25.5″ diagonally. This means the dot pitch is a bit on the large size and some smaller text loses its image quality. In Windows 7 I found upping the text size to a custom setting of 115% pretty much took care of the issue. Every now and then the text is a bit screwy on a few web pages. Any higher than 115% and text on those same web pages are really messed up.
Color shift is a bit more than 24″ monitors. Color shift is a problem on all TN displays, IMHO anything larger than a 25.5″ would not doubt greatly benefit from higher resolution, say 2048 x 1152 or 2560 x 1600. Hard to find IPS/VA LCD panels give you greater viewing angles and better color but for most TN LCD panels work out just fine. I Have not found a decent IPS/VA panel larger than 22″ and that is too small for my old eyes. Don’t let anyone kid you, if you want a monitor that you can mount on an optional arm or mount so you can rotate it 180 degrees for text you really should be looking at IPS or *VA displays, TN displays simply are not good as vertical text viewers.
The back cover pops off for those who want access to the VESA mount.
Loving the real estate and size of these 25.5″ displays. The size makes up for the shortcomings. If I had it to do over I would probably buy the X-Rite i1 Display 2 instead of the hueypro. IMHO the hueypro just seems cheap and the X-Rite i1 Display 2 gets better user reviews than the spyder3 or the X-Rite i1 Display 2. The hueypro is quite a bit less expensive and did do its job after several tries. I would buy the VW266H displays again and I would not be without a calibrator even if it is just a hueypro no matter what monitors I bought. The VH266H offers a lot of bang for the buck.
Monitors seem to be the hardest thing to choose in comparison to other computer parts. TN versus IPS/VA panels. Google is your friend. 1920×1200 (16:10) versus 1929×1080 (16:9). I found that TN panels are just fine for most as are either 16:9 or 16:10.
This is an excellent monitor for the price. At 25.5 inches diagonal, this is a huge screen (by the standards of PC monitors). The pixel size is slightly larger than my old 1680×1050 21 inch monitor, so I get more pixels without having to squint at the screen– in fact the VW266H is slightly easier to view.
The only two downsides to this monitor are the stand and built-in speakers.
The stand only allows the monitor to be tilted up and down; no other adjustment is possible. Given that an Ergotron mount with full adjustment (and the ability to rotate the monitor to “portrait” orientation; this monitor can make an awesome e-text reader) costs about $100 at the moment, I can forgive Asus for not including a more capable mount– it would have increased the cost by a pretty penny, and most people can live without it.
My gripe with the speakers isn’t that they don’t sound very good– what do you expect from speakers built into a monitor?– but that they turn off when the monitor goes into standby mode. This can be good or bad, depending on your particular circumstance. For me, I’d rather the speakers always stay on.
I have owned this monitor for six months now and it has been one of my best purchases in years. I wanted a some what large monitor to use on my glass computer desk which consist of my PC, Xbox 360, PS3, and an original Xbox. First, this awesome thing is full 1080P (1920X1080P) via HDMI, DVI, VGA and even component! it’s also widescreen 16X10 and not 16X9, confused? it looks a bit taller and larger than other monitors of the same screen size (25.5) but, all 16X9 material like PS3 and Xbox 360 games are upcoverted to 16X10 meaning your gaming world will look just a bit more skinny and taller, this makes the games look awesome though, I have switch to 16X9 mode a couple of times (you get slight 1 inch thick black bars on the top and bottom) but original 16X9 looks weird to me now, characters look fat etc similiar to when a full screen picture is stretch to fill a widescreen display. You will love gaming on 16X10 trust me it looks wonders without any loss of picture quality. I have my PC on VGA, my 360 on HDMI, my PS3 on DVI (via hdmi to dvi) and my original xbox on component running in 480p (note that this component input is capable of full 1080p though) I noticed that 480p on this monitor looks so much better than my old Sony 32 inch HDTV, games like halo 2 and ghost recon look like 720p games! I recommend to not use the build in speakers though (who does?) buy yourself some nice PC speakers and just use the audio out jack from the monitor and your set. The 2ms response time is brilliant on first person shooters with no ghosting at all(ghosting is what makes the screen blurry when turning or slowly moving in games). The bluish tint was there with factory settings so take a few minutes to adjust the brightness and saturation, or use these: SPLENDID : Scenery. BRIGHTNESS 100. CONTRAST 100. SHARPNESS 100. SATURATION 73, ASCR: OFF (VERY IMPORTANT) COLOR TEMP: Cool, SKIN TONE: Reddish. ASPECT CONTROL: FULL (BUT USE 4:3 FOR NON WIDESCREEN GAMES) and for xbox 360 go to your display settings and choose “1080p” from HDTV SETTINGS, choose “standard” from REFERENCE LEVELS, and choose “YCbCr709″ from HDMI COLOR SPACE, for PS3 is all automatic so don’t worry about it. There it is! enjoy!
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