Apr 13, 2006 Dale Walker     Price for this unit was great, < $2000. I have not tried HDTV input so cannot co...

My Experience: Price for this unit was great, < $2000. I have not tried HDTV input so cannot comment on that. It displays standard TV image with the expected clarity. Color and brightness are good. Picture-in-picture is only available if one of the inputs is HDMI. Had to get a special DVI-to-HDMI cable to connect computer to HDMI. This is completely undocumented. Pic-in-pic has to be managed through the menu, there are no buttons on the remote that enable or change it. If one of the signals is lost for more than a few seconds, pic-in-pic is cancelled and you have to start over to restore it. Typical for screens of this size with this (good) resolution, viewing from less than 2' away is fuzzy and hurts the eyes. Keep this in mind if considering for computer use. You can't be as close as with a smaller monitor.

Problems: Miscommunication between Viewsonic departments caused their support staff to have info on the preproduction model that was changed significantly before any were shipped. Customer Service reps assured me that pic-in-pic worked with standard CATV and computer inputs. It took 2 weeks to find out that this is not correct. The area sales rep assures me that they are correcting the reference info that Customer Service uses. The users manual on the Viewsonic website showed a totally different remote control and on-screen menu from the production model. As of 4/14/06, the English version of the users manual is no longer available on the Viewsonic website so maybe they are revising it. The foreign language versions are still there and are still wrong! I tried computer input using two different recent models of Radeon video, one on a DELL motherboard and one from Diamond Multimedia at "native" resolution, 1360X768. Both were unacceptable. One was clear at 1280X1028 which stretched the image. At 1360X768, the image shrank to the middle of the screen. With the other card, the image was full screen but jumped and twitched. Driver for the Diamond Multimedia card was from 12/1/05. Input from Matrox 450 card displays properly at 1360X768.