Home > Consumer Reviews > ASUS VW266H 25.5-Inch Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black

Like it a lot. I bought one to go with my Asus VW246H 24" 16:9 and liked it so much I snagged a second VW266h 25.5". The but comes in for several reasons. Both VW266h displays suffered from a bluish tint. Different batches manufactured several months apart. Issue has been reported by others in several forums. Calibration is the cure. A hueypro calibrator took care of it just fine. The huey pro is not as automatic as one thinks, even after setting the monitor back to defaults it took several attempts to get "close enough" matching for dual VW266H displays. The blue tinge was quite noticeable when the VW266H was next to my VW246H. More than likely you will need a calibrator to make the VW266H look as great as it can. You might not notice if you are running just a single monitor and are not very computer savvy.

The second issue is that it is 1920x1200 and 25.5" diagonally. This means the dot pitch is a bit on the large size and some smaller text loses its image quality. In Windows 7 I found upping the text size to a custom setting of 115% pretty much took care of the issue. Every now and then the text is a bit screwy on a few web pages. Any higher than 115% and text on those same web pages are really messed up.

Color shift is a bit more than 24" monitors. Color shift is a problem on all TN displays, IMHO anything larger than a 25.5" would not doubt greatly benefit from higher resolution, say 2048 x 1152 or 2560 x 1600. Hard to find IPS/VA LCD panels give you greater viewing angles and better color but for most TN LCD panels work out just fine. I Have not found a decent IPS/VA panel larger than 22" and that is too small for my old eyes. Don't let anyone kid you, if you want a monitor that you can mount on an optional arm or mount so you can rotate it 180 degrees for text you really should be looking at IPS or *VA displays, TN displays simply are not good as vertical text viewers.

The back cover pops off for those who want access to the VESA mount.

Loving the real estate and size of these 25.5" displays. The size makes up for the shortcomings. If I had it to do over I would probably buy the X-Rite i1 Display 2 instead of the hueypro. IMHO the hueypro just seems cheap and the X-Rite i1 Display 2 gets better user reviews than the spyder3 or the X-Rite i1 Display 2. The hueypro is quite a bit less expensive and did do its job after several tries. I would buy the VW266H displays again and I would not be without a calibrator even if it is just a hueypro no matter what monitors I bought. The VH266H offers a lot of bang for the buck.

Monitors seem to be the hardest thing to choose in comparison to other computer parts. TN versus IPS/VA panels. Google is your friend. 1920x1200 (16:10) versus 1929x1080 (16:9). I found that TN panels are just fine for most as are either 16:9 or 16:10.

This is an excellent monitor for the price. At 25.5 inches diagonal, this is a huge screen (by the standards of PC monitors). The pixel size is slightly larger than my old 1680x1050 21 inch monitor, so I get more pixels without having to squint at the screen-- in fact the VW266H is slightly easier to view.

The only two downsides to this monitor are the stand and built-in speakers.

The stand only allows the monitor to be tilted up and down; no other adjustment is possible. Given that an Ergotron mount with full adjustment (and the ability to rotate the monitor to "portrait" orientation; this monitor can make an awesome e-text reader) costs about $100 at the moment, I can forgive Asus for not including a more capable mount-- it would have increased the cost by a pretty penny, and most people can live without it.

My gripe with the speakers isn't that they don't sound very good-- what do you expect from speakers built into a monitor?-- but that they turn off when the monitor goes into standby mode. This can be good or bad, depending on your particular circumstance. For me, I'd rather the speakers always stay on.

this 2009 model is wonderfully light weight, enjoys low power consumption, while being 15% larger than most 1920x1200 screens. a 3 year warranty from this well respected company is very reassuring with no dead pixels out of the box. I bought two (one landscape, one portrait) running off the same cheap NVidia card mounted on cheap Monoprice VESA arms, with my 4 years old XP P4-CPU, and I couldn't be happier. it will be years till the new 30" 2560x1600 screens get cheap, so best to buy this ASUS now. don't wait for Thanksgiving sales, as prices won't be much cheaper and a great item like this could experience shortages.
the only Con I see is the light weight plastic case means screen boarders have to be a bit thicker than some other 24" of the same resolution, so if you are doing a single desktop across Four screens, you might find the thicker boarder between panels a bit annoying. this screen is not as good with black on black as so called gamer screens costing double, but most black on black complaints with the VW226H can be alleviated with Video card driver updates direct from the card manufacturer and not from MicroSoft Windows updates.

Great monitor, great price, and big...big...big!
Before I purchased, I did a lot of homework, I think the reviews that gave this monitor only average ratings were nitpicking. All monitors in this class have field of view issues, and this one is no different. If you're sitting at your desk you won't notice anything in that regard. You have to compare apples to apples, not sub $300 monitors to $1000 monitors. Too really get a top quality monitor at this size, you may have to spend that much or more.
This monitor has lots of hookups in the back that give you much flexibility. I had no problems with buying it new at Amazon. The monitor had no stuck pixels, and it was in great shape. At this price, anyone who doesn't rave about this monitor isn't being fair.

Just orded this 11/23/2009, set it up and what can I say - this monitor rocks, got it for $279, and when you add in the $30 dollar rebate it is only $249. Sharp picture.
The monitor's brighness is very good, and the dot pitch beats out HP and Dell's for hundreds of dollars less (16.7 million colors at Dot Pitch / Pixel Pitch
of 0.287 mm x 0.287 mm.), where as the competitors are more like .301 mm. Fast 2ms (gray-to-gray) response time (vs the competitors at 3 to 5 ms) and offers maximum resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels. Not to mention the warranty ...3 years vs all of the competitors which only offer 1 year. This monitor replaced a DELL 1905 flat panel. Very Very satisified.