Best HD monitor? 23″ ASUS VS238H-P LED Review
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This is my ASUS VS238H-P HD LED IPS monitor review. This monitor is one of the best monitors that you can get right now for under $160. It’s currently $159 on Amazon with free shipping. It has great reviews: an average of 4.5/5 stars. If you click the link at the top of this post that will take you to the best price on Amazon for this monitor so you can order it. This is a 23 inch HD LED monitor with IPS technology. It supports a full HD resolution of 1920×1080, and it has an all black finish which looks really nice. On the back of the monitor you’ll see it has 1 HDMI port, 1 VGA port, 1 DVI port, and a 3.5mm audio jack input. In the box it comes with a power cable, a VGA cable, and a DVI cable but no HDMI cable. This monitor does not have a built-in speaker, but I’m not a big fan of built-in speakers on monitors so that wasn’t a problem for me.
Some of the features for this monitor include a slim elegant form factor which makes it very lightweight. It has a 2 millisecond response time for smooth motion playback. Since it is LED-backlit it is more energy efficient. It has a 50,000,000-1 smart contrast ratio for more defined images and dark colors. It also has a feature called Splendid Video Intelligence technology which provides quick image presents for your display. This is an IPS display which provides some of the best viewing angles for monitors currently on the market, and it does produce very accurate colors. I’ve been using this monitor for months, and I can tell you right now that the colors and fonts are very crisp. They look so good on this monitor.
This is a very good monitor if you’re a Windows or Mac user, even if you’re a gamer or not. I don’t play many games, but I use this on my Mac and I’ve played some games. It looks really good to me. The response time is very high so you don’t get any blur during high motion gaming. What’s great about this monitor is you can quickly toggle through the built-in presets for your image display. It has theater mode, gaming mode, standard mode, scenery mode, and a couple others. Each mode looks different and is made to be suitable for whatever you’re doing on the screen. For me I really like the theater mode. It brings out the colors and looks very good. Most of the time I leave it on standard because the brightness is a little too bright for me on the other modes, and I just turn the brightness down to below 50 on standard.
I also like the fact that you can tilt this monitor. You can tilt it back and forth and change the viewing angle very easily. The stand for this monitor could be a little bit better. It’s kind of a small stand and can be a bit wobbly if you’re on an uneven surface or if you tend to hit your desk frequently. But it’s not that big of a deal, and I actually like the smaller stand. It doesn’t take up very much room at all so I like that aspect of it. The stand and the bezel of the monitor both have a glossy black finish to them. They’re shiny, but the screen itself is a matte screen so you don’t get that glare if there’s a light behind you which is really nice.
After months of using this monitor I have no dead pixels whatsoever, and the screen looks just as good as the day I got it. This is an excellent monitor, but if you’re doing high-end graphic design or hardcore photo editing you probably want to spend a little bit more money and get a higher quality monitor. However, this monitor is perfect for people who want to upgrade to a large high quality HD monitor but want to save money and not break the bank. So I highly recommend this monitor. 95% of the users out there will be extremely pleased with this monitor.
By Andy Slye