ViewSonic VX3276-MHD 32 Inch 1080p Widescreen IPS Monitor with Ultra-Thin Bezels, Screen Split Capability HDMI and DisplayPort

Appears to work well
I’ve only been able to use this for a couple hours because of Amazon sending me an incorrect mini pc, which had to be returned. Until I get a replacement, I don’t have the ability to provide 4K input to this monitor. What I did see looked good. Wish monitors could provide at least 2″ of vertical height adjustment in their support stands. Delivery was quicker than originally forecasted.

Terrific Value
The setup video for this monitor was a bit on the silly side…it was actually a lot easier to set up than the poor fellow demonstrated in the video. Most importantly, the cost was phenomenally cheaper than other brands, given the quality of the image I am staring at as I write this review. You need this if you are older and computer literate.

Good value
This is a review of the 32” 4K monitor with an “MVA” panel.This is a good monitor considering how little it costs (for a 32” 4K monitor that is). It has no obvious quality control issues I’ve been able to discern. If you get something for a low price like this, and it works exactly the way it’s intended to work, then you should consider yourself lucky that you got a good deal.Before I bought this monitor, I imagined that a 32” 4K monitor would make my computer life so much better. But I now feel that 32” is just TOO BIG for typical desktop usage. A 27” 1440p (aka QHD) monitor is the sweet spot for a desktop monitor. Most people buying this monitor would be better off with that and you’d save yourself some money or, for the same price, get a monitor that has better features and maybe better color quality and accuracy. However, I am not holding its size against the monitor, it is what you’re buying. Just advice for anyone reading this.As an MVA panel, I had high hopes that the blacks would be jet black and not have the “glow” of IPS monitors. I was wrong about that, this panel definitely has an MVA glow, I guess you would call it. Are the blacks a little bit darker than a typical IPS panel? I don’t know for sure, I only have one other monitor to judge it against, a Samsung “PLS” monitor that I bought 8 years ago for $800. That much more expensive monitor annoyed me for 8 years with its corner glow that ruined the experience of watching fullscreen movies or videos. I am happy to say that this Viewsonic monitor does not have any corner glow and it’s much better for watching movies. Yay! But still not jet-black blacks.The downside of this monitor having an MVA panel is that there’s a loss of contrast when viewing the corners or edges of the monitor. I would not recommend this as an office monitor (where IPS glow doesn’t matter), or for color-critical photo/video editing. But for a home monitor where you would use it in a dimly lit room and use it a lot for watching movies/TV/YouTube/Netflix etc., I think a VA type of panel makes sense. The viewing angle issue is barely noticeable most of the time, and this monitor certainly has a much better viewing angle than a TN monitor, but the issue is there.There’s nothing horribly wrong with the panel, but the colors seem to lack punch. Also, the monitor has a really weird gamma curve that I don’t like. It seems to work better with a Mac, but when I hook a PC up to it, it looks all wrong. Hint: there’s a setting in the menu system called “black stabilization” that’s by default set to 50. Lowering it may improve the look on a PC and give you darker darks and less of a washed-out look. Other than this “black stabilization” setting, I don’t see any other way to adjust the gamma in the monitor’s menu system.Before I bash the monitor, let me tell you what’s good about it: It has a lot of input ports, two HDMI and two DisplayPort (but I have no idea why one of the DP inputs is MDP; if you happen to have an old MacBook with an MDP port, you can just buy an MDP to DP cable which you probably already have anyway), it has an output for sound, it even has built in speakers, but the built-in speakers are pretty bad so they are mostly useless. The monitor also looks really nice. It’s very slim and has hardly any bezel at all.OK, let’s get to the bad. The monitor has no height adjustment, and this monitor definitely needs a height adjustment because it’s so huge; the default height is too high, I wish I could lower it as much as possible so I don’t have to strain my neck to see the topmost part of the monitor.The control system for this monitor is awful. The control buttons are on the back, and even basic tasks like changing the brightness or changing the input requires fumbling with a bunch of different buttons. In the future, I will definitely favor any monitor that has a remote control, or at least a d-pad on the front.There’s very little documentation about what all the functions do or how to use them. I downloaded the user manual from the web in PDF format, but it doesn’t tell you that much about what all of the mysterious functions do. What you can’t do in the menus is change the gamma or set an exact color temperature that you specify with a K value or change the color saturation.But the bottom line is that, despite the bad and the mediocre, there are no defects and it cost very little money. You can easily spend three times as much money for a 4K 32″ monitor that, at the end of the day, is still just a big high resolution monitor.UPDATE A FEW MONTHS LATERThe image quality on this monitor is very good.I realize now that when I wrote the original review, I was getting washed out colors with PC because the settings were wrong in Nvida control app. It was set to “RGB Limited” when it should have been “RGB Full”. Maybe this happened because I was using an HDMI cable instead of a DisplayPort cable to connect the monitor?I stand by in hating the controls for the monitor on the back/right. It takes forever and is a real pain in the ass to adjust even something simple like the brightness.I also stand by not liking the cheap stand that can’t be vertically adjusted.I also stand by 32″ being too big, but that’s not the fault of ViewSonic, it’s what I bought.Everything else about this monitor is great for the price. Especially great for watching movies or TV if you push your chair back about 3 feet form the monitor.

Love this monitor
I like the three inputs and the resolution. It is a great monitor and very thin. I would recommend this to everyone.

I bought this as a third monitor last year to improve my productivity as a content writer. It’s lightweight, thin and easy to mount.My other two monitors , 32 inch LG and 13.8 Surface Laptop, are significantly higher resolution. Still, they work wonderfully together. Colours and clarity are close enough between all three screens. The only thing I notice is that boots up slower than my LG.I highly recommend.

O monitor é muito bonito, de espessura fina, tem um toque moderno e funciona perfeitamente conectado ao MacBook, com o cabo mini DisplayPort. Mantive a configuração original (que funciona muito bem) pois configurar é um pouco chato, devido aos botões traseiros não terem indicação de sua funcionalidade. O som do monitor não é bom, uso sempre com o som nativo do MacBook ou com fone ou caixa de som. Mas mesmo com essas questões, vale a pena! Eu adoro o layout do monitor. É realmente muito bonito.

L’écran est très très grand (ce que je voulais) mais l’encombrement sur le bureau est normal. La qualité d’image et la réactivité sont bonnes. Je l’utilise au travail sur PC où je suis amenée à avoir plusieurs documents ouverts en même temps et cela m’évite d’avoir deux écrans en faisant un split screen. Très contente de mon achat. Très bon rapport qualité/prix.