Buy Acer S231HL bid 23-Inch Widescreen Ultra-Slim LED Display - BlackAcer S231HL bid 23-Inch Widescreen Ultra-Slim LED Display - Black Product Description:
- Whether you are a video gaming enthusiast or a graphic design profession, you're going to love the Acer S231HL bid 23" Class LCD Monitor.
- This 23-inch widescreen display features the full 1080p resolution for a better picture. The incredible 12,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio delivers deeper blacks and vibrant whites.
- Features: 1080p resolution 12,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio
- Ports: VGA, DVI & HDMI with HDCP
Product Description
The Acer S231HL bid 23" Widescreen LED Backlit Monitor is essential for your media-minded PC. S231HL bid has monitor that tilts and comes with a VGA, DVI, and HDMI cable.
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89 of 91 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent Value! Buying Another
By Joshua Israel
I bought mine 7 months ago, and it was a great value at $180. Almost a five star product, but some minor issues. When I opened the box, I was shocked to find an HDMI, DVI, and VGA cable waiting inside. I figured most companies would make you purchase the HDMI and DVI separately, so that was a nice surprise. This is good for the person that doesn't know to tell the Best Buy salesman to piss off when he tries to sell them a Monster HDMI cable for $80. I'm buying another one of these monitors, so that should tell you something.PROS:-Excellent picture quality for the price range-Very small and lightweight, but solid structure (read below about the stand - the exception)-Sleek, attractive, minimalist design-Comes with HDMI, DVI, and VGA cords-No problems interfacing with laptop and desktop computers-No dead pixelsCONS:-Less than perfect buttons and user interface-Can't disable the power button's light-No extra features like speakers or USB Hub (but I knew that getting into the deal, so I didn't take off any points)Interfacing:When I first plugged it into my laptop, there were no problems recognizing it or getting it to display in full resolution. I wasn't too happy with the default coloring (it seemed rather cold to me) so I played with it for a bit, and it looks great now.User Interface and Buttons:I was stuck at 4.5 stars, and this is the part that made me go with four stars instead of five. The user interface is pretty bad. The buttons aren't labeled because they are multi-function. When you press any of them, the menu appears on screen and assigns each button an action. You get to choose between a user mode and four others (Eco, Standard, Graphics, and Movies). The customization gives you enough freedom, but physically working with it is just clunky. The buttons would have been a lot easier to use on the side, rather than on the bottom. I would have also liked dedicated Enter and Back/Cancel buttons for the menu. The other problem with the interface is the Power button. It has two LEDs inside - one blue, one orange-yellow. The blue one displays whenever it is turned on and is receiving an image from the computer. When the computer goes to sleep, the button switches to yellow. This is all fine and dandy, but I haven't figured out a way to disable the LEDs. This is kind of annoying because I like my room to be extremely dark at night, and the lights are rather bright. If I find out how to disable these, I'll come back and change the review to five stars.Picture Quality:The monitor uses a matte screen, rather than a glossy one. I much prefer this. If you don't know the difference, look it up - matte basically sacrifices a bit of contrast to reduce glare. I use my monitor to watch full HD movies, play games on PS3, and do standard computer work/games. All of it looks even better than on my HDTV (but that's not hard because it's a budget Vizio). I can't say much about hardcore gaming because I'm only a casual gamer. As for video quality, it's a huge step up from my laptop's monitor, but you have to keep in mind that this is a super cheap LED monitor. Don't expect it to match your brand new $3,000 TV for picture quality. For the price, though, I was absolutely thrilled at all aspects of the picture quality. If you check out the specs on it, you won't be very impressed by anything, so I suggest you take a look at it in person if you can. Always trust your own eyes for picture quality, because going by manufacturer specifications alone can be misleading sometimes. Go to a store for viewing before you purchase online, and I think you'll like what you see.Design and Build Quality:It is super thin and lightweight, and the frame around the edges is pretty thin, which is nice. That being said, it still feels solid, except for the stand. The stand was a bit of a disappointment, as it's just a tad wobbly and my monitor is (ever so slightly) off level. I'm getting pretty picky here, because you pretty much have to get a level out to notice it. Otherwise, everything is solid, sleek, and sexy. Nothing flashy, just a nice, simple design.
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
Stellar image quality once you get past its near fatal flaws
By James Q. Smith
Acer's software doesn't report firmware version number. I have a manufacture date, "ISO week 30", 2011 and my serial serial number.I compared the 231HL against existing higher quality LCDs: the $400 IPS based Dell U2410 Dell UltraSharp U2410 24-inch Widescreen LCD High Performance Monitor with HDMI, DVI, DisplayPort and HDCPand Sharp's $1000 VA technology 46SE94U Sharp Aquos LC46SE94U 46-Inch 1080p LCD HDTV, both with CFL.ProsPlug and play using HDMI inputThe bright power light isn't annoying. The light points down, and softly lights up the bottom right of the screen without projecting light towards a room, whether its blue or orange lightThe tilt stand adjusts the viewing angle for the best spot depending on the users sitting position; its minimum compensation for lack for a height adjustmentThe Acer LED back light is uniform without back light bleedThe Acer calibration software is slow, functional and bug free. Acer's proprietary calibration scheme is easy to use.ConsThe default colors settings are very bad, compared to the Dell or Sharp. There is no black, colors are washed out by the bright light, and it hurts the eyes. Images appear washed out and small fonts are blurry.The viewing angle is smaller than advertised. Monitor tilt by its maximum 15 degrees will cause a color or grey shift. The images is best looking perpendicular at the monitor, head on.Custom settings do not stick: switch one Acer mode to another, resets all to Acer defaults, regardless whether its set by the hardware buttons, Acer's software or third party.The monitor settings adjust only contrast and brightness. It does not make complex RGB and gamma adjustments such as by the Dell and Sharp LCD.These bugs are on the HDMI port connection. Its possible they may not occur if I use the VGA port, which I did not test, but that won't improve the worst flaw: the black or white levels.You cannot rotate the screen to use it lengthwise, like the Dell, its permanent as a panorama view just like the Sharp TV.Undocumented power featuresInky blacks and better whites can be adjusted via RGB controls through the DDC interface using your video card client software; its otherwise not accessible from the hardware nor Acer's software. Settings stick regardless of any future settings of the monitor's hardware keys. Alas, black level will be reset to factory default if the monitor is unplugged.It took ~ 6 hours of adjustment to decipher what the controls do and get colors right. Here are my settings for blacks and white hot to guide your personal settings:Monitor to USER, Insure DDC is ON through the configuration menu. Turn OFF ACM, the Acer contrast management.I use "Intel graphics media control panel" to adjust the color settings:1: Color enhancement settingsbrightness 50contrast 40gamma 1.0To adjust the monitor occasionally for brightness or contrast, use the Intel control panel, not the Acer hardware keys to avoid losing your custom settings. The Intel gamma adjustment has a bug at 1.0, it sometimes sticks to 1.1 and needs to be toggled between 1.1 and 1.0 to set it correctly to 1.02: Acer Monitor Settings via Intel graphics media control panel:brightness 12contrast 0video gain: r,g,b = 80video black level: r,g,b = 50Video gain sets white level. reduce blue to 75 or lower for warmer whites. Reducing black levels will intensify black and darken the whites. I found 50 through laborious experimentation; Acer's firmware default was 128.Readers can use basic online calibration tests to check your adjustments, see comments.Conclusion:The undocumented adjustment of white and black level puts this monitors imaging at 5/5 it its class but reduced by 1 star due to its firmware. True color based on professional settings is another thing, but users won't quibble if official red is 255,0,0 [ such as the Dell] and Acer's is 253,2,3 due to the actual spectra of the LEDs. While limited by viewing angles, monitors used for desktop are typically viewed in one position by a single user, reducing annoyances by color shifting.This monitor isn't made to be viewed by multiple users or for rotation like lengthwise viewing, like a newspaper.The Hannspree SL231 SL231DPB 23" LED LCD Monitor - 16:9 - 5 ms, its striking similar to the Acer. Its likely these monitors are actually made by an OEM, and can share similar virtues, but Hannspree may have fix the firmware vices.
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
An in-depth review of a good monitor!
By DOBrien
Ok so before I comment on these, I wanted to give some qualifications. I am a professional photographer, who loves to have good (not necessarily the newest) tech.CONSTRUCTIONSetting this monitor up was easy, just screw in the stand and you are ready to go. The monitor itself seems solid, and is heavy enough for its size to keep it firmly on the ground. The only problem I had with the build of this monitor was the stand. It seems a little cheap. I'm not worried about it falling over, but I feel as though for the money spent Acer could have gone with a nicer plastic. Another minor annoyance was that the VGA, DVI and HDMI ports are all horizontal instead of vertical. This means two things: (1) heavier cables like DVI pull down and will wear the connection over time, and (2) wall mounting is near impossible without an ungodly gap. It's not hard to have vertical connections, and more people do it nowadays for the above reasons.VISUAL QUALITYThis was my first LED monitor, and sadly I only have the Apple LED laptop screens to compare it to (unfair advantage in quality being IPS level). That said at this price point you're not going to get too much better. The LED backlight allows for blacks to look awesome, and there is absolutely no light leakage that one might find on LCD monitors with their (on average) two lights. That said, there was something about this monitor that made it a little sketchy for precision photographical work and graphic design. It had a blue hue to it, which was difficult to remove with several different color correction methods, and displaying gradients was a little tough. After hours of tweaking I did get it to look pretty darn good, which saved this monitor a review star, but since then I have upgraded to an LG IPS. One thing that this monitor was really nice for was as a secondary display in Final Cut Pro. While I used the Apple monitor to edit/color correct, using the Acer helped get an idea of what the average user would see. The anti-glare was flawless though, and didn't wash out colors or blur text as I have seen on other monitorsWHY 4 STARS??- Quality is not half bad (+)- Costs almost nothing to run LED (+)- Anti-glare is some of the best I have seen (+)- Stand seems a little cheap (-)- Connection ports horizontal (-)OVERALLOverall I would definitely recommend this monitor to someone who wants good quality but who is not willing to pay a premium for that extra bump. I would not recommend it to photographers/graphic artists, but makes an excellent preview screen for video work. For gaming and general usage, this is a great monitor at a competitive price!
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