| | |  | Broadcaster Products | Home » » Acer AL2216Wbd 22" LCD Monitor - Black | | | | | | | Description: | | A monitor ideal for watching DVDs and playing video games!Enhance your vision with this Acer 22" LCD monitor! Incorporating the latest LCD technology, the Acer AL2216WBD offers the best visibility, performance and unprecedented value. The outstanding 300 cd/m2 brightness, together with optimal 700:1 contrast ratio, renders crisp images and enhances legibility. With its fast 5ms response time, the AL2216WBD brings remarkable display quality to your desktop! | | | Features: | |
• 22" TFT LCD monitor is ideal for gaming, multimedia and video applications
• Native 1680x 1050 resolution
• 1 DVI Port and 1 VGA Port
• 700:1 contrast ratio, 5ms refresh time, 300cd brightness
• 170 degree horizontal and 160 degree vertical viewing angles
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 20.2 inches | | Product Width:
| 16.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 7.8 inches | | Product Weight:
| 10.6 pounds | | Package Length:
| 22.2 inches | | Package Width:
| 18.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 5.9 inches | | Package Weight:
| 13.6 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 314 reviews |
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115 of 121 found the following review helpful:
 Unbelievable value!Sep 26, 2006
By David J. Silver
"davyboy"
A 22" widescreen LCD monitor in the $300 - $350 range. Unbelieveable - you might skeptically think. Think again - this one is a great product at a great price. Mine was perfect right out of the box - no dead pixels, fast as lightning (5ms), took me more time to unpack the box then to set up the monitor. Takes almost no desk space at all - and comes with a 3 year warranty! This is most definitely one of the best deals I've found on anything anywhere. With a native resolution of 1680 x 1050, the picture, via a DVI connection is crystal clear and just plain beautiful!
75 of 78 found the following review helpful:
Great bang for the buckDec 05, 2006
By M. Pierce
I've been using a 12 inch laptop for school and it was fine for taking notes. When it came time to doing more intensive work, sitting behind the screen for 8-12 hours with documents overlapping was killing my eyes and driving me crazy. So I went out and picked up this monitor. It's like night and day. I can have two VERY large windows side by side for sifting through and combining information. Plus, I still have the laptop's screen as real estate.
There is a little bit of light leakage on the edges of the screen, but it's only slightly noticeable with a completely black background. My other gripe is that it cannot rotate, but when I have some time I'll see if there isn't an after-market solution I can utilize.
Altogether I'm very happy with the purchae.
-Viewing angle is good.
-Colors are bright.
-The option to set the focus is nice.
-The automatic adjustment works like a charm.
-22" of space is very useful.
-The price is right.
-No dead pixels that I can see.
44 of 48 found the following review helpful:
Great Picture, Right PriceNov 24, 2006
By Aaron Dahl
I bought this monitor to be paired with a computer that I plan to use for AutoCAD and PhotoShop. The images come out great, sharp contrast, vibrant colors, I could not be happier with the picture quality. The wide screen format is nice, but it took a few minutes to get it properly configured with my system. The tilt function does not feel solid, it's like the screen (which is not small) is perched on this plastic pivot, but it seems to work fine, I just hope it doesn't break a year down the road. It does not have any integrated speakers which would be nice, but then who would want a nice big screen with some little speakers that sound like a tin can anyway?
27 of 28 found the following review helpful:
 Good picture, poor standJun 14, 2007
By Wayne
When I upgraded from a 1280x1024 Dell, I expected to see a better picture. What I got instead looked washed out, and lacking in detail. The Dell had a few advantages. I can't fault this monitor for lacking USB ports, although it's a nice feature to have, but I can fault it for having a completely non adjustable base. After finding the right size software box, and a book of just the right thickness, I was able to prop it up to the maximum height allowed by my computer hutch. It still looked wrong. I then lowered my chair to the point that I have to reach up a few inches to use my keyboard, and things look perfect.
Unless you keep this monitor so that the center of the screen is exactly at eye level, you won't get a proper picture. It might not show a big difference, depending on the source, but if you look at something with a mostly white background, but a lot of subtle detail, such as a snow bank or a salt flat, you will lose all the details if you are even two inches above the preferred viewing height. If you are an average height male, and have your chair at the ergonomically correct position for the angle of your arms to your keyboard, then the monitor stand is almost a foot too low if you expect to sit it on your desktop.
You "swivel" by lifting the monitor and turning it sideways. I can't fault Acer for the limitation of my computer hutch's maximum height, but I can fault them for not working well in it, when every monitor I used in the past had enough of a viewing angle that things worked. My Dell's height adjustment was more for comfort than viewability, and it was very simple to do.
Aside from that, it worked great out of the box. Time will tell if it stays that way, but the warranty is good. Setup of the monitor itself was almost non-existent. I plugged in my existing DVI and power cables, and was up and running. I pressed the AUTO button, but saw no difference. That might mean that it was fine to begin with, though. That feature also gives you selectable settings, such as text, graphics, or movie, to further optimize for content.
I had to adjust some of my applications, which is no fault of the monitor, but you might have some setup as a result of moving to ANY wide screen monitor. For example, my ATI TV/media system needed to have a wide screen box checked, and these sorts of settings might be hard to find, expecially for software installed long ago. So if things look very wrong on some applications right out of the box, it's not the monitor's fault, but it does mean that it might take some work on your part anyway.
The bottom line is that it's an excellent monitor, especially considering its price, if your setup allows proper placement.
62 of 70 found the following review helpful:
 Cheap in more ways than oneSep 12, 2007
By Wayne Paterson
"allpar2"
Originally this monitor seemed like a great buy, but it's proven to be nearly impossible to correctly calibrate. Quality as compared to my 19" Viewsonic is fairly poor; text doesn't render as well, the color temperature varies dramatically across the face of the monitor (blueish on the left and definitely pink on the right!), and text is a bit harder to read. There was also a stripe down the monitor which went away when I adjusted the angle - after turning bright blue! I'd keep looking and pay more for a better quality monitor. It's the thing you stare at all day, after all. For movies it might be OK as long as you don't mind a huge color shift from side to side.
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