ViewSonic 32 Inch 1080p Widescreen IPS Monitor with Ultra-Thin Bezels, Screen Split Capability HDMI and DisplayPort (VX3276-MHD)

7 reviews for ViewSonic 32 Inch 1080p Widescreen IPS Monitor with Ultra-Thin Bezels, Screen Split Capability HDMI and DisplayPort (VX3276-MHD)

1. 

   Rated 3 out of 5

   Joshua – 24 March, 2023

   There aren’t a lot of decent IPS panel screens in this sort of pricerange. Only a few are even competition for this one — most of them much older with fewer features. So for this range I’d say this one is a pretty decent choice and probably one of the better choices in fact. There are mostly just a few things keeping it from being great.

   First, the settings are just… bad. The default settings it offers for a lot of things are bad. In particular, if you set it for gaming it will, by default, set the “response time” setting to “advanced.” Which sounds good, right? Except this does some sort of processing that actually creates significant ghosting (leading several people to believe the seemingly high latencies are just too high. But 7ms actually wouldn’t result in the ghosting you see with this at all. In fact, that would be more on the order of as high as 15 or maybe even 20ms… My best guess — and this is just a guess — is that “response time” settings of advanced or ultra actually enable some sort of predictive image processing that does more harm than good.) Setting this manually to “standard” corrects the ghosting. I was able to play very fast-paced games with zero problems once I set that to standard, so the 7ms response time that scares so many people is actually fine. (And there are actually multiple ways of measuring response time — in fact there are different responses that SHOULD be measured and provided to the customer but of course are not — so 7ms is not actually as far off from what a modern TN panel 5ms or lower screen might actually do in actual practice.)

   Also, color and lighting settings are rather hard and confusing to get actually right. For example, sRGB actually sets a very warm rather than neutral color. I’ve had to manually set a lot. Unfortunately, I don’t have anything to calibrate a monitor with (it’s surprisingly hard to find anything for external calibration in fact — I’m getting an ancient Spyder 2 for software calibration, but it really would have been better to find the right settings for changing the settings to be right.) When I set advanced DCR to 0, black stabilization to 50 (it’s hard to figure this one out in particular, but so far I think 50 is closest to correct, but I’m a bit torn between 50 and 60 depending) contrast to 50, brightness down to my preference (35, probably just slightly higher would be a bit more ideal for many people,) and the colors to user controlled (100% each to RGB for now — I need to figure out how to tweak this to get it more neutral still, but this is pretty good for a start) it gets pretty close to something that feels very neutral and realistic looking. Yellows in particular seem a bit odd though, so I’m still not quite sure and will be looking for a way to calibrate it better via these settings someday. Once you get the settings right overall it’s pretty nice though and certainly good enough for most purposes (close enough even for many image manipulation purposes I think, though if you need 100% sRGB this won’t do I’m sure.) I think with the right settings it could be pretty incredible in fact, it’s just a matter of figuring them out (which I haven’t quite gotten just yet.) With my current settings though most test photos, scenes of nature, and etc look pretty amazing now.

   One HUGE point against it is the stand is absolute crap. They really screwed the pooch on this part actually. First, you can’t get a third party thing. No VESA mount holes or anything like that to work with. As far as I know the stand doesn’t use any sort of standard connection (it’s something that snaps into the bottom.) The problem is, it screws loosely into a single bar that goes up to the monitor. And no matter how tight you get it it can still be fairly loose. Now, to be clear, the flat wood desk I’ve set it on is almost completely level (less than a degree off. Nothing major.) But no matter how tightly I turned the screw (and it stripped the head a little I was turning so hard) the stand will not stay straight. For some reason it even leans away from the direction the desk is ever so slightly off by, so I know it’s 100% the stand at fault here. And it just stands to reason that with just a tiny thin little bar screwing in like that there will be potential for this sort of problem. That’s why most stands that snap in like this one does at least are much wider. I had to add so much padding to the left side that it raises it by almost a full FIVE millimeters. (Conversely my desk is off level by probably about two folds of a sheet of paper, not even a single millimeter.) Since there are no screw holes whatsoever you can’t even use a third party stand. You’re just stuck compensating for a screen that may or may not tilt severely. And honestly, this is the biggest reason I deduct two stars from its rating since once one gets the right settings they can share with others but fixing the stand being off level requires a fair bit of work. I got some foam material for only a dollar that I was able to cut and stick to the bottom of it in layers, so I guess this is easy enough to fix, but I do call them out on this horrible choice in design with this stand. It may be pretty to look at, but in actual usage it’s just horrible. Especially sticking up on one side with material propping it up. I used a craft foam with a sticky back (1.5mm thick in this case) bought locally for only a dollar and I can’t seem to find something quite equivalent to it here, but 

   uxcell 2Pcs 12mm Wide 1mm Thick EVA Single Side Sponge Foam Tape 10 Meters Length

    might be a good choice for anyone else needing to deal with this in the same basic way.

   Finally the backlight bleedthrough isn’t nice. This, unfortunately, is standard for cheaper IPS panels, so I don’t hold this particularly against this one. This is only a problem if you’re doing something with a lot of blacks like certain games and maybe some movies. Probably not much photo work but if you’re looking at an IPS panel definitely don’t look at cheaper ones like this. One thing to note here though: it’s actually pretty uniform. Most IPS panels I’ve used are very non-uniform in their bleedthrough. Usually it’s one or two corners and could be either the top or the bottom. And the bleedthrough tends to be pretty extreme. You’ll have a spot that looks practically white while all the rest around it is black. In this monitor’s case it’s both better and worse. Where those are confined to a really small area this one has it much more uniformly spread out. Which means there’s a much larger area affected by bleedthrough making blacks all around suffer, but it’s also a lot less actual bleedthrough in each area in comparison so the blacks don’t suffer as much where they do. Which one is better or worse is more down to personal preference than anything else, but I suppose overall this is less bad probably since it’s more uniform and less disruptive.

   I think there is a LOT of potential here. I believe with the right settings it could have pretty amazing color especially. I think for its price range it might potentially even be one of the best options available. There are a rare few that can be cheaper and a few others in this range, but the visual quality is the most important in an IPS panel and I think maybe it might have an edge or two there for this pricerange. If you’re willing to go up to ranges more like $500 then this is not the way to go, but for this low price it beats at least those others I’ve compared it with in actual visual quality after I set it right. The stand is a huge screwup, but at least it’s not too hard to compensate with the right materials. I do not believe the user should have to do this though and packing material under one side to prop it up defeats any fashion benefits of its design anyway, so it just plain needs to go and be replaced with a real stand instead of the awful ultra-thin bar triangle thing.

   UPDATE: The Spyder2 arrived. After a lot of hard work tracking down drivers they’ve removed from their primary site I finally managed to find the old drivers from before they took them all down (ironically on their Japanese website.) It turns out their software supports calibrating the screen’s built-in controls before creating a color profile. I found that with the standard 2.2-6500K calibration it told me to set the red to 100, green to 91, and blue to 88. This ends up being about 6467K which is as close as it could get with the RGB output as close to even as it will get (the blue is either too little or too much by a slight margin and green is off as well by a very tiny amount, but overall all three end up pretty close and well within the acceptable range.) Brightness can go higher and this will affect the output somewhat, but any brighter bothers my eyes, so I can’t provide adjusted values at a higher setting. Curiously enough this is actually really close to what sRGB produces, however sRGB has way too much green according to the calibration tool. On the other hand, the ICM it produces after calibrating with manual RGB control overcompensates on the greens such that grays have a greenish tint to them, so perhaps the sRGB setting actually _IS_ accurate. Why it feels too warm to me I couldn’t say, but if you want as close to sRGB as possible it may still be best just to use that built in profile. I’m also using the ICM that ViewSonic provides via their monitor driver though I don’t see much difference with and without. Without something external or a newer, higher quality calibration tool to compare I can’t calibrate better than that.

2. 

   Rated 4 out of 5

   DoverNH – 6 April, 2023

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    Updated: Lots to like about this monitor, however after only two days it has a flicker. See attached video. Its most pronounced on the windows login splash screen. I don’t know if its broken or its simply trying to self adjust and is in some weird loop, but either way its not working properly. Its not always as pronounced as that screen, but that screen has a lot of black on it. I have a GeForece GTX 1060 6GB video card, not top of the line, but no slouch either.

   Original Review:
   It has 4 inputs and that super amazingly awesome! I connect three different computers to it, so having at least 3 inputs is super important. 4 is way above average on monitors. However the interface to switch inputs is via a crappy menu system and not a single button like others. This could drive you nuts. Also if an input is no longer there it will auto switch to something with an input. I cannot find any way around this in the menus. The information I was able to find before I purchase “implied” that it was a single button to switch inputs. So that part sucks when switching between computers.

   The screen is okay. There isn’t anything bad about it. I find flesh tones are too red saturated. I would not use this for Photo/Video Editing. This is not that monitor, don’t even attempt it, you will be disappointed.

   On the other hand for the price point, web-surfing and office type work is great. Compared to my 2k (1920×1200) monitor this is quite the upgrade and you will love real 4k and all the space you have. I bought the 32″ and not a 27″ and I think that was a good move. On Windows 10 you can scale everything on the desktop so it’s not super tiny small. I found 150% is my sweet spot. 32″ gives you a bit more room to maximize the zoom vs amount of desktop space in use. I might have needed 175% on a 27″ monitor to get things to look the same size. Even though the pixel count is the same you need to factor in the actual size of icons and whatnot. 32″ for me gives me more space. Text from applications is crisp sharp, there are no pixels that I can easily see. Compared to my old 2k monitor this is amazing!

   This is not an IPS panel, but instead, its MVA technology. The screen is really large, which is awesome, but its so big in fact that the viewing angle becomes important. The left and right if I’m sitting center is no longer 100% perfect because of the viewing angle. Not outrageously bad, maybe 10% worse to the right or left of what you are working on. I suspect IPS is better, but I didn’t read up on it so I don’t know.

   Finally it has VESA mounting holes (100mm x 100mm) and I was able to mount it on my monitor arm. I added the spacers since it could bump into their bracket if used without the spacers. There were no specs on the screws (it would be nice to put a sticker or put it in the manual so you knew what max length was supposed to be). I used M4x16’s (x4 of them) (which is 16mm long) and that seemed to work just fine. That was through my VESA backing plate and spacers and it didn’t seem to hit anything on the inside. It would have been super nice if they included 4 screws.

   Other than that its a good price for a brand name monitor, but there are plenty of monitors in the price range. I’m happy I have it, but I probably should have splurged for a more expensive display. If you are doing Office work you will be very happy once you get the settings adjusted to your liking. The thing that held me back from other brands was the lack of a dedicated input select button, which in the end this one doesn’t have.

3. 

   Rated 3 out of 5

   Al Pod – 24 April, 2023

   Eines vorweg; Der Monitor gehört mit seiner Optik zu den schönsten die meinen Schreibtisch gesehen haben.
   Alles wirkt sehr wertig, der Standfuss gibt dem Monitor einen edlen Touch.

   Was ich bemängele ist aber der technische Aspekt. Mir gelang es nicht, ein klares sauberes Bild hinzubekommen.
   Die Grundeinstellung mit einem hohen Schwarzanteil sorgen dafür das das Bild eher schmutzig aussieht.

   Mit einem tiefem Schwarzwert wurde das Bild ansich besser, es war aber zu dunkel.
   Die Helligkeit des Monitors war dabei auf 100 eingestellt.
   Wenn dann Einstellungen am Grafiktreiber vorgenommen wurden, wurde das Bild wieder schlechter.

   Weiterhin ist die Bedienung des Monitors sehr schlecht gelöst. Die Knöpfe befinden sich hinter dem Monitor, sodass man gar nicht sieht, welche Taste man bedient.
   Ich habe mir damit geholfen, durch tasten mitzählen die richtige Option zu finden ?!
   Das kann es aber auch nicht sein.

   Ich habe wirklich viel versucht um ein gutes Bild zu bekommen. da es mir aber nicht gelang ging der Monitor wieder zurück.

4. 

   Rated 4 out of 5

   Ricardo – 25 April, 2023

   Falta ajuste de altura .
   Bonito design

5. 

   Rated 1 out of 5

   YO’s Taverne – 5 May, 2023

   Ich war auf der Suche nach einem Monitor mit einer WQHD Auflösung, 32″ Größe, eingebauten Lautsprecher, IPS Panel und einem ganz dünnem Rahmen. Die Optik ist mir auch sehr wichtig. Ich mag Displays die auch ansehnlich sind.
   Dafür habe ich mir ein Budget von 350€ gesetzt.

   Viel Auswahl gibts in diesem Bereich leider nicht. Nach 3 Tagen Recherche habe ich mich für dieses Model von Viewsonic entschieden. Auch wenn viele Berichte durchwachsen waren, hat mich das Package und das Design angezogen.
   Ich mein was kann schon viel schief gehen… dachte ich mit meiner Naivität.

   Ersteindruck… für den Preis absolut Top. Die Wertigkeit der Materialien sind für die Preisklasse erstaunlich. Ein absolut schlichter und schnörkelloser Monitor, der auf jedem Schreibtisch gut aussehen würde. In meinem Fall hängt er an der Wand. Auch die VESA Adaption ist sehr stabil. Wer aber viel Wert drauf legt, das man keine Kabel sieht, muss etwas tricksen. Ich habe mehrere Winkel Adapter für Displayport und HDMI bestellen müssen, weil die Anschlüsse dafür sehr weit unten am Gehäuse sitzen und nach unten zeigen. So gehen die Kabel schön von außen nach innen.

   Auch wiegt das Ding auch merklich. Kein Vergleich zu den meisten TV’s in mit der selben Größe. Für mich aber nicht schlimm. Das ist eine Sache zwischen der Halterung und dem Monitor. Die müssen miteinander klar kommen.

   Nach der ersten Inbetriebnahme habe ich das Ding nach meinen Bedürfnissen eingestellt und kalibriert. Das Bild ist ausreichend scharf und die Farben anständig. Bei konstant hellem Licht und Büro Tätigkeiten ist es ein guter Monitor.

   Kommen wir jetzt zum großen ABER (siehe mein eingefügtes Bild). Die Katastrophe beginnt bei dunklen Bildern. Die Ausleuchtung ist einfach eine Zumutung. So eine Desaströse Ausleuchtung habe ich noch bei keinem Monitor in meinem Leben gesehen. Wie kommt sowas nur durch die Qualitätsprüfung? An diesem Monitor würde alles passen, wenn da dieses Riesen Manko nicht wäre.

   Ich bin einfach nur enttäuscht 🙁

6. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   RKA – 14 May, 2023

   good cour contrast, high resolution, thin bezel

7. 

   Rated 4 out of 5

   YO’s Taverne – 9 June, 2023

   The Good:
   1. Very bright panel (I’ve been using it 60% brightness).
   2. Pleasing aesthetically: slim bezels, metal stand, thin display (if only half way down).
   3. Crisp image, good contrast. The preset colour profiles are terrible but the menu allows you to achieve a somewhat accurate colour profile.
   4. Display port AND hdmi outputs.
   5. Not too heavy for it’s size.
   6. 100mm x 100mm vesa mountable.
   7. Discrete power indicator under the panel, can be disabled in the menu.
   8. No external power brick.

   The Bad:
   1. Glossy panel (the manufacturer claims anti-glare coating, but it’s as glossy as they come – keep it in a dark room).
   2. The top of the monitor is thin at 8.5mm but the bottom half is 40mm.
   3. The menu buttons are on the back and are very hard to use. At least there are 5 of them so you don’t have to keep mashing one to cycle through menus, but I’ve found myself pressing the wrong ones all the time.
   4. No display port cable included in the box
   5. The vesa mount is at the bottom of the monitor. Had to over-tighten my mount to prevent the monitor from tilting forward.
   6. The speakers are terrible, quality and volume wise (no surprise).
   7. Some back-light bleed out of the panel corners, visible against a dark background.

   The Ugly:
   Under no circumstances should you buy one of these from a place that doesn’t accept returns. It’s like ViewSonic doesn’t even do quality control. I have returned two of these before getting a decent panel. The first one had a number of dead pixels and back-light streaks. The second one had a dead pixel right in the middle of the panel. The third one I’ve ordered from amazon warehouse, at a hefty discount, which turned out just fine aside from a few cosmetic scratches. The review would’ve ended up being a one star if not for Amazon’s no fuss returns.