Review on ViewSonic VA951S Enhanced Viewing Monitor: Crystal-Clear 19" Display, Eco Mode, 1280X1024P by Jacob Hill

It replaced a 15 year old LCD monitor that was razor sharp with superb color accuracy. As other reviewers have pointed out, there are no instructions in the box and what you can find online is vague, barely covering the basics. Is there some limited picture adjustment done on the monitor itself, with those four little black knobs that are completely invisible in the black frame unless you shine a flashlight on them? For real? Could you make them silver or protrude from the bottom so you can see them? The resolution, even at the maximum of 1280 x 1024, has text so jagged and pixelated that it causes eyestrain, and full-screen images such as photos or drawings are blurry. The color ranges from flashy neon to flashy, and there's no easy way to tone it down to a more natural setting - for example, gold appears olive while lemon yellow appears more ocher. The black font has two borders - one red and one black - which contributes to the blurry and fuzzy look of the font and makes it very tiring to read. And that's with the "natural" setting - the others, focused on the game, make it more alive and invisible. There's no sharpening or anti-aliasing option to try and get rid of jagged edges and blurry images - lowering the resolution just predictably makes it worse. Either it's out of the box, or it is, and that's real shit. This aspect ratio is necessary to fit in a limited space, so you have to use the standard wide aspect ratio and use a much smaller screen to fit in that space. This product is the worst monitor I have ever seen. My first computer, bought 30 years ago, had a better picture than this one.