To test out the HDMI input and see what the Envision could do, I hooked up my Philips Blu-ray Disc player. Watching Sony’s Immortal Beloved on Blu-ray yielded an excellent picture, superior to that of my local hi def broadcasts. Out of the box, colors were a bit oversaturated and sharpness was too high but these things were easy to fix.
As a computer monitor, the Envision was a mixed bag. I set my Dell’s nVidia graphics card to output 1440 x 900 and at first, all seemed great. However, when switching users on the XP machine, the image would often shift north a good inch or two. This was usually fixed by switching users again, but that grew old quickly. I’m not sure if this phenomenon was the fault of the video card or the display as I did not have another PC in-house to test with. When the image filled the screen though, life was good and the 5ms response time impressed when watching movie trailers at apple.com.
With street pricing under $400, the L19W661 is an exceptional value for the money. yy
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