Philips 200P 20-inch LCD Monitor (Refurbished)

This came as a refurbished Philips 200WB7EB/27 20-inch widescreen monitor with a quirky 1680x1050 (WSXGA) resolution. No speakers, this monitor includes a quirky USB "pass through" instead of a USB hub (if you plug a USB cable into the monitor, it makes a single USB port available to you... it looks like the Philips engineers ran 4 wires about 4 inches....) As a monitor, it works, and the pivot stand is very good. Simply put, if you want to watch your widescreen movies in "portrait" mode, this is the monitor for you!! Thanks Philips!

The monitor I initially received was the right model but the base had been replaced with a non-rotating, non-adjustable type. I had picked this monitor precisely because of the rotating stand, so I sent it back to be replace. After some confusion over a lost order I was able to get a replacement (no shipping cost to me, but it was a hassle to cart the box to and from UPS). The replacement was slightly different from the described version: it had the swiveling stand but not the USB ports described. That wasn't a big enough deal for me to bother to ship it back and forth again, so I just kept that one. Then a week later ANOTHER monitor arrived, same as the second one, and I had to send that one back (again, not paying for it, but lots of hassle). After a few months the brightness of the screen started to become uneven, not terribly so but patchy enough to be annoying.

My first impression of the screen is that is was kind of dim, but that has never interfered with my using it. I needed the high resolution (not available in most other monitors, even larger ones) and this has met my needs.