PC Monitor 17-inch 4:3 LED Backlit Monitor 1280 X 1024, 60 Hz Refresh Rate, 5Ms Response Time, VESA Mountable, VGA, HDMI, TN Panel, Built-in Speakers

Color is not adjustable so everything is muted from email to websites. Works fine with the exception of the color being off. I will be replacing with a better monitor as I need color for some of the reports I use. 5/3/22 I am editing this recommendation as the company reached out to me after my review and sent me a new monitor. This one was bought for my home office as a second screen and I had already bought a replacement since the colors/brightness was an issue for my needs however the company sent me a bigger screen that allows for color/brightness adjustments and it works wonderfully. Highly recommend if for no other reason than the company wants the customer happy.

Needed a smaller, second monitor for a home recording studio. This one is TRULY TERRIBLE. It fails at brightness, resolution, and color (other than that, it's wonderful!). It's too dark. It's too blue. My Mac cannot find a resolution or a display profile that works for it. I tried to adjust the monitor settings on the monitor, but the only thing worse than the instructions are the adjustment controls themselves. This piece of junk is going in the trash the minute the new Acer I ordered arrives. Lesson: don't cheap-out over $20.

Unlike some other monitors I tried this monitor is able to take unusual (for North America) inputs like HDMI @50Hz and @48.8Hz (that e.g. Pentagon, a clone of ZX Spectrum computer, produces) without any issue. Good for retrocomputing!

The image: perfectly adequate for a monitor in this price range. The on-screen display buttons are in back and it takes time to get used to which button does what. Switching between inputs takes several button clicks--could be easier. There's no LED on front indicating whether the unit is on or off. All tolerable. The real disappointment though is that only the top two of the four VESA mount holes are threaded. The lower two holes are simply holes in the plastic cover. If you mount this monitor on any sort of monitor mount with a tilt adjustable gimble, a 2-screw mount is quite inadequate. When you tilt the screen (especially tilting upwards), unless you take special care to hold the bottom of the VESA mount, all the torque is put on those two small screws. It wouldn't take much to rip them right out of the back. Were all four corners of the 100mm mount properly threaded, it would be totally fine, but they are not. Less important (and not affecting function), the connectors are misaligned in the frame. Normally such build issues end up with the entire set of connections a bit shifted to one side or the other. Here (see second pic), they all over the place. HDMI: Upper Left, VGA: Upper Right (and rotated), Audio: Upper Left, Power: Left. While the positions don't appear to affect function, it certainly reveals poor build quality. A crooked sticker on the back (first pic) reinforces that observation.

I bought two of these monitors to use in a 3 monitor workstation configuration. This review is in response to the criticisms of the VESA mount by other customers. I do think it is a bit cheap but it is totally workable in my opinion. As another customer reported, the lower two screw positions have no metal threaded holes. I found, however, that I could create threads in the plastic holes just by threading the screws in. The weight of the monitor can be supported by the metal threaded holes for the upper two screws so these lower two screws work fine just threaded into the plastic. I did find that the plastic around the upper two screws protruded out from the case a bit and prevented my VESA screws from being long enough to reach the metal threads.

The packaging was smaller than I expected, but the monitor arrived intact and fully functional. I connected it up to my NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 & it worked perfectly. I did have to adjust my display settings to share monitors and to make my larger monitor primary (I use the 17" for research/walkthrus). Excellent replacement for an LCD panel with pixel rot & more energy efficient!

I was looking for an inexpensive 4:3 monitor to play some classic console games on and wanted to avoid the sometimes questionable Ebay route and cat hair filled vents usually associated with Facebook Marketplace pickups of tech products. Having used a Thinlerain portable monitor before, I assumed I knew what I was getting and was prepared for some shortcomings... I was wrong. The package arrived sounding like a box of Legos, come to find out that the stand is just left freely rolling around the box. I verified there was no screen damaged and set it up. That same stand was two very cheap pieces of plastic that never did fully clip together. The monitor itself had another set of issues. Firstly, it states 4:3 all over the page... it is indeed a 5:4 monitor. It also has a bit of an identity crisis. In big letters on the box, it claims "Widescreen," um... nope! Finally, they advertise an LED backlight. I have a very hard time believing this last part. This monitor has nearly no proper viewing angle. Every position leaves a portion of the screen entirely washed out and unreadable. Furthermore, the contrast ratio is essentially non-existent. The picture seems to be on and too bright or off. Attempting to correct the hazy, washed out mess led me to the "HDR" mode, which this monitor certainly isn't capable off. What it does do, is obliterates the brightness, crushes the blacks and cranks the colors to neon, though still on a murky gray backdrop. It was in this menu that I recognized the OSD as the same as on a small 8" CCTV monitor I use for projects. This is simply a scaled up version of that product. I cannot think of a good reason anyone should use this. In the end, I rolled the dice with a refurbished monitor from 2007 at less than half the process, threw on an Allstate warranty and the experience has been much better.

Bought this monitor as a second monitor for my desktop. The size is what I was most interested in as I don't have room for another large monitor. This is very decent for the money. The picture if very clear and I was pleasantly surprised. Working great thus far.