Envision Monitors are good if you really need a monitor fast
Written: Oct 01 '01
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Pros: You can find a mail in rebate. cheap.
Cons: fuzzy spots, cheap
The Bottom Line: If you need an extra monitor, or just don't feel like shelling out big bucks, then this monitor is for you.
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| paramchuk's Full Review: Micron Envision Value Line EN-710 (17 in.) CRT Con... |
Yes, this is the monitor you see at stores with the mail in rebate bringing the total cost to somewhere around $70. And with the age old statement, you get what you pay for, you do rally get a $70 monitor. But this is not that bad of a thing if you just need a monitor to get you through the day of web surfing, and reading epinions.
I bought the Envision 710 out of necessity, our old monitor just stopped working. It let out that horrible smell of burning silicon and melted plastic, nasty. So I made trip down to the local Fry's Electronics and picked up whatever I saw was cheap, and looked decent. The Envision 17 inch monitor I looked at and eventually bought was a measly, $148 plus a $60 mail in rebate(which I am still waiting for, 10 weeks later) but I am told the rebates take a little while. Infact, the company Envision contracts out to track and process the rebates has a web site which I just checked and it said my rebate is in the mail as of last week....I'll keep you posted.
Now some specifics of the monitor. It's a decent looking monitor on the outside, with nice clean lines and a nice small interface for the function buttons. You can adjust all the regular things you would need to on a monitor, color, brightness, screen rotation, screen positioning, screen size all that wonderful stuff. The buttons also enable you to "de-gauss" your monitor, this basically gets rid of any magnetic/electrical field build up around your monitor. So if you see some wavy lines, or excessive fuzzyness then this might be your problem.
Now the quality of the picture itself. The monitor has a refresh rate of 60hz, so it does not flicker like some other cheap monitors do, at least I have not noticed any flickering. It has a maximum resolution of 1280x1024, so it's got decent resolution. The horizontal dot pitch is .23mm, meaning crisper images. Sounds great right? Well... I notice near the center of the screen that things tend to be a little fuzzy and out of focus. No matter how long I fiddle with the controls it still seems fuzzy. It's more annoying when reading text than when looking at pictures :) or playing games.
And one thing that really annoys me is the color on some screens. When there is a solid color displayed on the screen, like at hotmail for example. You can actually see a line, much that a line that would appear on the old dot matrix printers when printing a solid color. Not a pretty site. So if you want a monitor with a 16" viewable area and are not to picky about quality and want to spend as little as possible. Then I recommend the Envision 710 to you....otherwise, it might be better to stay away.
Recommended:
No
Amount Paid (US$): 148 - 60 MIR
Operating System: Windows
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