Its not completely bogus or else I wouldn't have done it. I said you have to take the reviews with a big grain of salt, because people are quicker to complain than praise, and some people are idiots.
For example:
And looking at the Viewsonics 3 "1-star" reviews what did they say:
1 guy said it sucks for the xbox 360 because it flashes off and on. (What's really happening is that Viewsonics that are multi-input detect when there is no signal, blackout, and then probe the other inputs and switches to the first live one it finds. And the 360, like you'd expect, cuts the video signal when transitioning between hd modes, initializing games, etc... triggering the input probe.) And so viewsonic blacks out and then comes back on shortly after with a OSD label saying what port its on that goes away a few seconds later. This happens on PCs to when you change the resolution too. I'd actually expect this sort of "problem" with most monitors with an xbox 360. But maybe some don't have the OSD label and just fade to black, and that might be preferable if you are only using one port. I wouldn't really call this an issue, although perhaps its not the best screen for an xbox 360 because of it, if the label annoys you.
1 guy said it had washed out color at the bottom but not at the top. Almost definitely a defective unit. I hope he got it replaced. Its not really a fair review of the product, since its a defective unit, but it does give us an idea how good their Quality Control is; it must be pretty damn good because there aren't many reviews like this!!
1 guy didn't know the technology. All fast LCDs are 6-bit. And the bleed he talks about is due to the dithering...they use to 'emulate more colors'. That's par for the course on a fast screen. If you want 8-bit perfection your looking at a 20ms screen that costs twice as much that sucks for games and video. This guy bought the wrong product, or is an idiot, or both.
Now read the 19 1 star user reviews for the Sceptre, and you see stuff like this too. But you also see a lot more posts saying stuff like "poor quality crap" "uneven brightness", "broke right away". Now I agree that these sites are a magnet for complaints, both justified and unjustified... but how do you explain that the viewsonic monitor, with 3 times the number of reviews, has only a fraction of the number of negative reviews?
The only rational answer is that the Viewsonic is truly an exceptionally good product.
Honestly though, if you are content to spend the extra cash I am happy not to and beyond that this argument is beyond pointless.
I found your comments interesting, and we clearly have different perspectives.
