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I purchased this lcd monitor on 04/15/03 and still going strong & with its 3yr warranty it's a great purchase.The only problem that I had it is the power cord box that the monitor plugs into going to the wall outlet in which the manufacture replaced with Practically no questions asked .Thats all I had go wrong with it since I purchased it in 2003.
IT'S STILL IN USE TODAY,NEVER HAD A BETTER LCD MONITOR THAN THIS ONE

I think I paid around $300 for this monitor on Amazon, 4 years ago. All is still well aside from a few pixels out. Great product.

I read the comment about how all the people giving good reviews must have not had their monitors for long and I had to write. I bought my first Cornea MP704 somewhere around late 2001 - early 2002, and it is still going strong and and looking good well into 2007 - is that long enough?

When my mother was looking for a new computer during 2003, I did not hesitate to buy and send her a Cornea MP704 at the same time that I bought and sent her a new PC. She is still using hers also. When I decided to go dual-monitor, I went and looked for a Cornea MP704 and found one (I seem to remember it was on eBay) and bought it. It is also still going strong, I have to look at the little label I put on the back of of my two to tell them apart.

Last month (Feb 2007) I decided to buy a monitor to put on my desk at work. I've bought someone's used MP704 off eBay, and this one is flickering. From my experience building PC's I know that the power supply is usually the first component to go, and the symptoms don't usually point obviously to the power supply. So on a guess I searched online on "Cornea MP704" and "power supply" and "flickering", and voila! I am here. So what do you expect with a five year old monitor? I'm going to get a new power suppliy off of eBay and I expect this great monitor to last another five years for me.

The only other thing I have to say is - if you hate the Cornea MP704, kindly box it up and send it to me.

My office purchased eight MP704 monitors almost three years ago for use on four dual monitor workstations. We have had no dead pixels and no issues with blurry images or resolution problems. We did lament the lack of NT4 drivers, but after we upgraded to Windows 2000 this was no longer an issue.

Last week one of my monitors began to flicker, and this afternoon it died completely. As I had two identical monitors to experiment with on my own desktop, and six more readily at hand, I decided to swap the power supplies of the two and see if, perhaps, it was the power supply that had failed, and not the monitor.

Sure enough, the power supply was the culprit. A quick search of the web yielded one supplier of a replacement power supply (http://www.digital-house.com/digitalpowerproducts/ac.html), but as the price is a bit high ($60) I called Cornea directly and asked if the power supply is covered under their 3 year warranty.

In fact, it is, and they are faxing me information to send my broken one to them for replacement.

Now they may not in fact follow through on this promise, and if so I will post a follow-on review critical of that aspect of their customer support, but I thought it was only fair to report that the cause of the flicker problems reported on Amazon to date is most likely the power supply and NOT the monitor itself. And even at $60, a new power supply is still much cheaper than a new monitor.

In summary, I remain very satisfied with our Cornea MP704 purchase, and would not hesitate to buy from them again - with my own money (rather than taxpayer money) this time.

The MP704B is an awesome, solid monitor, when it's working properly. You've probably noticed a lot of very favorable reviews, but those reviews were most likely written after those customers owned this model for only a short while - the real problem starts to occur months down the road.

The MP704B has some great specs and it has terrific performance, especially for a no-name brand like Cornea Systems. I've never seen an MP704B with any dead pixels. Also, this model has great color, easy to use controls, and excellent response time (no ghosting at all).

However, I have used 3 of these models, and all 3 have had flickering problems. After some amount of time (anywhere between 6 and 14 months), the monitor will start flickering on startup. It gets worse and worse until it flickers even after it's been on for a while. As such, I've had to RMA 2 of them, and the third I will RMA soon.

This is a solid LCD monitor that can rival any other brand, when it's working properly. In reality, however, it's probably not worth the hassle of RMA'ing it every year, especially considering the warranty is for 3 years only - after that you're out of luck.

My advice would be to spend some extra money and get a quality monitor that works correctly all the time.