ViewSonic VX2268wm

ViewSonic VX2268wm

The VX2268wm is a year late, but at least Viewsonic has made the most of the time to work on improving this monitor. It uses the same panel as the Samsung 2233rz, but makes some general improvements in a lot of areas--especially the accuracy of the colours it displays, which was the latter's main weakness. Although we don't take it into account in the score for a monitor, it's immediately obvious that the VX2268wm is finished to a much higher standard than Samsung's screen. There's another factor that becomes immediately obvious, though, and that's the rather weak hardware offering. With just one VGA input and one DVI input, and a line in connected to 2 x 2 W speakers, it's a rather limited proposition. It doesn't really stand up to much comparison with the 2233rz, which has a rotating stand (but no speakers or VGA connectivity). When we test monitors, we prefer to count the number of frames of ghosting (phantom images that trail behind moving objects), rather than specifying a number of milliseconds, because response time isn't a reliable measure to compare one panel technology to another.