AOC - 27" Widescreen Flat-Panel LED HD Monitor - Black

i purchased my 1st 27" AOC in 2014 and decided to get another in 2015! Love my dual setup! AOC def the best bang for your buck! Great quality!

I've purchased 3 of these monitors in the past 9 months. One for my business, one for wife (personal use) and one for a client. This monitor includes speakers and has HDMI, DVI and VGA inputs. A excellent monitor for the price and an unbelievable value when on sale.

I wanted to install dual monitors with my home desktop PC. In order to purchase another monitor to match my existing one, I would have had to pay almost double what I paid for the two AOC monitors. The resolution and speed are perfect for my needs (graphic arts, photo editing, etc.)

What I really like about this computer is that the colors just pop and its so clear, I do graphics and they look so clean looking in this monitor. AOC is great product.

Based on the price of this monitor, I was skeptical on the quality. The 20,000,000:1 contrast ratio was good, but I had seen better on cheaper monitors. However, as soon as I set this thing up, I was blown away. The 27 inches turned out to be far bigger than imagined, the contrast ratio was more than I would ever need, the thing was extremely fast (It has a 2ms response time!) the screen was super thin, and the design was stunning. Additionally, it came with built in speakers! In other reviews, people said the speakers were not very high quality, however I beg to differ! The sound is very crisp and clear, not to mention the fact that it has good volume to it, and can be turned up fairly loud. Additionally, here are some set up tips. When the box is first received, it says that it is "Windows 7 compatible", but don't worry, it works completely fine with windows 8 and 8.1 as well. Make sure to keep the box close when setting up the monitor, as the instructions are printed on the outside of the box. (I found that a little odd, but it wasn't really an inconvenience) Next, the monitor comes with an audio cable and a VGA cable. I DO NOT recommend using those cables, as VGA isn't very fast, and the audio cable has to be plugged into the headphone jack since VGA doesn't have in-line audio, hence making it extremely difficult to switch between speakers and headphones. I would definitely recommend using an HDMI cable, as it has better picture quality than VGA AND has sound in-line as well. I got an HDMI cable from this very website (bestbuy.com if that was hard to figure out :P) for only $5. Last but not least, the monitor comes with a disc too. On the instructions, it makes it look like the computer needs the disk software in order to run, but don't worry, as that isn't the case. All the disk comes with is a PDF of the users manual, an some optional drivers. (For some reason I wasn't able to install the drivers, so it's a good thing the monitor works fine without them.) Overall, terrific monitor! Don't hesitate to buy it!

Product is great for the buck. No regrets. Am a happy camper!

I was skeptical about this monitor as I was not familiar with the brand AOC but after reading reviews I was glad I purchased it. It works perfectly with my Mac with not much setup needed. Could use some speakers and the buttons on the machine are not that great, but can't really complain for the price!

I was skeptical about the brand and monitor for about a year. When it dropped down to $150 during President's Day weekend, I had to jump on it. (For reference, my previous monitor was a 2008-2009 Samsung 24" 1080p LCD Syncmaster which still looks better than most monitors today.) I've only had this monitor for a day. Out of the box, the picture settings were horrendous. Washed out colors and virtually no black levels. After a few tweaks within the monitor's OSD settings, the colors were still not to my liking. Then I discovered my graphics card has a setting called "Nvidia Vibrance" which enhances color and darkens blacks. After a few tweaks, this monitor stood out! Blacks are deep and colors are vibrant. Out of the box, my set has no dead pixels but horrible flashlighting (backlight is visible on the edges of screen where bezel is on too tight). 1080p content on this monitor looks great, anything lower than that (1080i/720p) looks awful. Text is nice and sharp. Overall, this is a great monitor for doing papers and playing games in 1080p. Just please have the patience to tweak the settings before writing it off like I almost did.