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The price on Amazon is very good, and my monitor was delivered in just three days! And the monitor is terrific, much better than I expected. I'm seeing details in games that I never noticed before. The difference in brightness and contrast from my old CRT is astonishing. Now I want that TV tuner gadget that will let me hook up my X-Box to this monitor.

In addition to the monitor you get all the cables you need for either analog or digital connection, a Quick Start Guide, and a CD with an Adobe Acrobat manual that explains how to use the On Screen Display--it's very easy and user friendly.

My monitor is connected to a two year old, NVIDIA TNT2 graphics card, analog only, but it still looks great.

I've been a tech for about 10 years now and this monitor doesn't deserve 5 stars. It's not horrible but I had to lower the average review because those people did not know what to look for.

Problems
- The dot pitch is only .28 so reading text is kinda fuzzy. I've seen perfectly clear 17"'s with .264 mm dot pitch.
- There is "pixelization" when watching movies or viewing images. This is probably due to the dot pitch. It's slight but noticable.
- The response time says .25ms but when watching fast paced DVD's or Games I can see "ghost" images which equate it to about 40ms response time. I heard somewhere that it was a hardware issue with the way they built the outerscreen on the vx900.

Conclusion
I researched other 18" and larger screens but none of them offer the quality I'm used to. Be careful before you buy this. Take a dvd like "Blade II" or "Gladiator" to your local retailer who carries this and test it there to see if you like it first. Also view a text or the windows help file so you can see if the fuzziness is ok with you.

If you go to Viewsonic's web page and compare the specs that they give, you will note that according to Viewsonic, the VX900 has a 500:1 contrast ratio vice the Amazon advertized 600:1.