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Product Description
Whether you’re using it as a second monitor for your laptop at the coffee shop, or you’re plugging in your PS4 on the go, the Hori Universal HD Gaming Monitor is ready for action anywhere you need it. This 15.6-inch panel offers a resolution of 1266 x 768p, low lag, and a high refresh rate to support your games and content Read More
I don't understand the pricing I'd be expecting sub $100 for this, I can just use my 1920x1080p Tablet that cost less than this to use as a second monitor and carry around, plus I can use it whilst I'm travelling?
Glorified budget tablet. Very easy to repurpose an old tablet laying around or find one on ebay or craigslist for cheap, but hey, if money is no object, what's another piece of crap tablet lying around collecting dust.
Looked interesting until reading those specs; I'd rather spend the extra bit of money and go for a GeChic monitor. The price point on this with respect to it's capability is waaaaaay off.
Got my monitor. Some initial impressions:
Input lag indeed feels very low. Initial testing indicates I can consistently get within 1 frame (~16ms) of a simple input lag test. Will need more testing to verify how low it actually is.
Speakers actually sound OK, and get decently loud. Nothing special, but better than expected.
Screen has a matte coating, which I prefer for something like this.
The LCD panel quality is really bad. Viewing angles are awful, colors are washed out (especially darker ones) and my monitor has one dead/stuck pixel. I will contact Massdrop and see what their policy is on the dead pixel. Also feels like there's some sort of sharpening effect going on that I can't get rid of, which is particularly noticeable with text. You can see the sharpening effect create a small outline around Cammy in SFV. A bit distracting, but easy to ignore once you actually start playing the game. Retro games (via OSSC or HDMI based consoles like the Super Nt) look pretty good, although the poor viewing angle and color reproduction is still a problem, just less noticeable with upscaled/linedoubled 240p stuff.
Overall I'm still pretty OK with what I got. The LCD panel is pretty craptastic and begs for improvement, but the low input lag and portability makes this a uniquely useful monitor for me. I probably wouldn't recommend it to most people since they probably won't forgive the bad LCD (just look at other comments in this discussion).
If the intended use is to have a console plugged in then this makes some sense as there are multiple HDMI inputs with decent input lag. However, if you want to use it as an auxiliary portable monitor for a PC or Mac then this is not worth it. There's equivalent alternatives that are cheaper and far superior alternatives for not much more.