Design is for today standards usual. Piano finish that was considered few years ago as very elegant solution, nowadays is so common that it becomes boring. Power button is lighted with intensive blue light that cannot be disabled and this can become very distracting element in a dark room. OSD menu has a lot of useful options so its “retro” look can be forgiven. Among all those useful options the most interesting are: picture scaling, dynamic contrast control, power saving, backlight intensity control and controls for integrated SRS WOW HD speakers. We didn’t like absence of swivel in base of the display.

Color gradients are displayed without errors but there is hardly noticeable, diffuse, backlight breaching along upper and lower edge of panel. Consistency of black on the rest of the panel is very good. For TN panel viewing angles are better than we expected but not as on some PVA, IPS and similar panels. Response speed is discipline that we expect this monitor will prove itself, and it did. In OSD menu can be found 3 modes that affect response time of ViewSonic VX2260wm. Standard mode disables Overdrive technology while Advanced and Ultra Fast provide slightly faster response times, respectively. Actual difference in response times is hardly noticeable but in Ultra Fast mode ghosting effects of bright surfaces on dark background is very noticeable. Panel is fast even without overdrive but Advanced mode has proved as optimal solution as for gamers as for movie lovers. It is nice that ViewSonic provided freedom of choice but controls on monitor should have been easier to find and use.