Design

As you can tell from the dimensions and weight show on the spec sheet, the VX2835WM is a monster of a monitor. I had to clear my desk in order to comfortably fit the monitor on to it. Design wise, other than it being absolutely huge, the VX2835WM comes in a stylish black. I found that should I want to place it in a living room setting, the VX2835WM would have no problem blending in with the rest of the furniture as its combination of colour, design and size makes it look like your typical widescreen LCD TV. Now add to that the speakers located at the bottom of the screen, and the VX2835WM starts to look more and more like a normal LCD TV. The VX2835WM does not have the option for height adjustment, which was understandable considering if you attempt to mount the screen any higher from the base; it's more than likely that it will topple over.

Connections

Now connection wise, you'd be pleased to know that the VX2935WM comes with a huge host of connections. The VX2935WM comes with HDMI with HDCP, component, composite, S-video as wekk as a 15-pin mini D-sub. If you're wondering where the DVI connector is, ViewSonic decided to totally eschew it and instead provide a DVI to HDMI cable to hook up to your PC.

Interface

The VX2935WM interface is rather easy to use and understand and its' built-in OptiColor Mode comes with seven different setting; standard, text, Cinema, Game, Portrait, Scenery and Vivid. These settings are pretty useful if you're too lazy to manually set your monitor and they do a pretty good job as well, though the more discerning and fussy user would still prefer to set the monitor manually.

Surprisingly though, for a monitor of its size, ViewSonic gave the VX2835WM pretty tiny buttons, which although were pretty usable, did cause me some problems when I needed to do some adjustments, as I would sometimes accidentally hit the power buttons. This wouldn't have been so bad if the VX2835WM start up wasn't so slow. Compared to most monitors we've tested, the VX2835WM was rather slow averaging at around 20 seconds from turning it on to showing the images. This made the constant accidental switching off of the monitor kind of irritating.