92 of 92 people found the following review helpful  Check Your Refresh Rate!, June 19, 2018 By Joshua S. Spell (Wichita, KS) This review is from: Sceptre 27" Curved 75Hz LED Monitor C278W-1920R Full HD 1080P HDMI DisplayPort VGA Speakers, Ultra Thin Metal Black, 1800R immersive Curvature, 2018 (Personal Computers) I normally wouldn't write a review this soon after receiving an item (2 days) but I too had noticed the sort of "pixel fog" that others were describing. I tried updating drivers, going through all the settings both for the monitor and my video card, everything. Finally I noticed that, in the adapter properties, the refresh rate was set to 60 hertz instead of 75. Once I made that change, this monitor became everything I hoped it would be!*
*I didn't notice that it had speakers when I bought it, so I wasn't hoping for those. If you are buying this because you want an awesome monitor with even adequate built-in speakers, look elsewhere. The speakers sound like 1990s earbuds dropped into a tin can.
304 of 316 people found the following review helpful Easy dual mount, October 4, 2017 This review is from: Sceptre 27" Curved 75Hz LED Monitor C278W-1920R Full HD 1080P HDMI DisplayPort VGA Speakers, Ultra Thin Metal Black, 1800R immersive Curvature, 2018 (Personal Computers) After shopping around I decided to purchase 2 of these because you can't beat the price and honestly it's 2017 I don't know why so many monitors are still over priced. This was one of few that had VESA mounting capability at this size. The only bad reviews are saying that you can't mount it, you can, it's really easy- see my photos. My mount didn't come with spacers so I e-mailed Sceptre and they priority mailed me spacers. Now I have a great curved home office at about half the cost. I've been using them for a week- picture quality is great, I mostly use them for work and don't do and gaming so i can't really speak to that. As long as they last a while, I'll be very happy, they look great.
115 of 121 people found the following review helpful Ignore the bad reviews, these monitors are perfect for gaming, movies, or just working., March 12, 2018 By Elaine A. Koontz (Pittsburgh, PA USA) This review is from: Sceptre 27" Curved 75Hz LED Monitor C278W-1920R Full HD 1080P HDMI DisplayPort VGA Speakers, Ultra Thin Metal Black, 1800R immersive Curvature, 2018 (Personal Computers) I was nervous from the reviews that I would find dead pixels or blacks would look greyed out. I took the advice from one of the reviewers about ignoring those flaws and getting these for my new gaming system. I'm so glad I did. These monitors are gorgeous, out of the box. I was careful not to take the protection off the front of the screen until I absolutely had them in the right position. Granted, I have only used them two days now but I'm making sure I turn them off when not in use and have good ventilation in the room to not overheat the system they are connected to or the monitors themselves. I'm very pleased with this purchase.
The only downside would be the speakers, they are not the greatest quality but I'm not taking anything off for them because many of the monitors available like this do not have speakers period so I felt I was getting a real bargain having the speakers included. |
