Sceptre Curved 24″ C249W 1920RN Series

I DO TAXES FOR A LIVING AND HAVE BEEN USING A 17 INCH MONITOR FOR YEARS!. A CLIENT TOLD ME TO TRY A BIGGER SCREEN BECAUSE MY EYESIGHT IS GETTING ALITTLE BLURRY AND THIS SCEPTRE MONITOR IS AMAZING, 24 INCHES.. I WILL PROBABLY BE GETTING A BIGGER ONE SOON, BUT SINCE I WORK WITH 3 COMPUTERS, I WILL STAY WITH THE SCEPTRE BRAND. FABULOUS PIECE OF EQUIPMENT..

These are a fantastic bargain. They’re space efficient and high quality, perfect for a home office. I mounted two of these on a boom arm setup and it’s truly amazing to get this price/size/quality for that cheap.

I love the size of the screen and the color resolution is great. I use both monitors for work and they’re awesome. I can read everything and they don’t take up a lot of space on my desk.

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After using this monitor for about a week, I can say that the quality of the picture and viewing angle match those of more expensive ‘brand-name’ ones. It displays the picture quickly upon wakeup, the image is sharp and bright, and the options are plentiful. The VGA and 2 HDMI ports are a plus. The speakers are what you’d expect from those built into a monitor – you should be using external speakers/headphones in any case. The monitor itself is light, slim, and easy to carry around with one hand. Installation of the included stand took less than a minute. I did not attempt to mount it on a wall mount, when I purchase one, I may edit the review based on that experience.

I have bought sceptre monitors in the past, and I stand by them as a great budget monitor company if you want something that’s reliable and inexpensive. I purchased these monitors as secondary monitors and vertical monitors for my setup. From my experience, I knew that these monitors would be good for work other than gaming, so I primarily use them for watching videos, discord, or just as an extra screen for when I am doing work. I overall enjoy these monitors, but I have two major issues that I had first when I got them.

I love the monitors, and they could be a 5-star product if they tweaked a couple of things. I will talk first about the main advantages of the monitors first. Firstly, for $150, you are getting a monitor with decent viewing angles and a good size with 75hz refresh rate viewing. For the price, it is a very good monitor alone for office or schoolwork. It does its job very well and anybody who is doing basic work or maybe some console gaming would have a good experience with these monitors. Furthermore, they are VESA mount* (more on that below), and it has a good display, with a speaker that although quiet, does the job well without sounding blown out. Overall, it is a good monitor, and anybody who wants something basic will enjoy this monitor.

Here are the cons from my experience, as it had a couple off the start. I first opened the box to find that it talks about its return policy on the box. This was extremely concerning since it is almost impossible to send this monitor back. Please keep everything (including box and packaging materials) for the first month you own the monitor. The second issue I had was the mounting brackets you get with the monitor. For one thing, the monitor uses a separate monitor arm, that is screwed into a bracket that comes out of the monitor. If you plan on not using any desk mounts or VESA mounting, then you will have no problem with this monitor. However, I wanted to mount this monitor to a VESA desk mount to use as a vertical monitor. My first issue came when I tried to mount the monitor, when I tried to mount the monitor to the arm by screwing in the screws provided with the arm. The first issue comes with the hardware included with the monitor, there are four standoffs and two monitor screws, but the arm needed four screws, so we already are set back. I found some old monitor screws that fit, and when I mounted the monitor, I realized that the monitor wouldn’t fit due to the bracket secured on the back, which sticks out of the monitor to make more viewing angles. Again, this won’t be an issue for those who are planning on not using any VESA mounting, however, it makes the process a lot more difficult for those who are planning on doing any mounting of their monitor with a third party device. It took me like 20 minutes before I realized that the standoffs that are included are for VESA mounting, which although makes some sense, also makes me question why to include the mounting bracket externally when it could have been included inside of the monitor since there is a cutout section that fits it.

I see this question a lot, and I feel that I should address it here for those who want to game on this monitor: get a different monitor. First, this monitor is a 75hz 5ms, meaning it refreshes the screen 75 times in one second, and it responds 5ms after the information has been sent by the PC. There are plenty of 144hz monitors with a 1ms response time for this price, and I recommend that you look for something at that price. If you want something to game on for the long run, get a 144hz monitor at the same price, it’ll work better overall, and be around the same budget.

Overall I highly enjoy this monitor. I give it four stars since it works very well for what I need it to do, and although it has its flaws I wouldn’t want another monitor. It could have been five stars, only if the price was a little bit cheaper. The price does go up with the blue light shift that occurs, but the $133 option is still a little overpriced, I would personally price this around $115 and it would be the ultimate monitor for the price. Overall, if you want a monitor for office work, then please consider this, it’s a great monitor.

This is a fantastic computer monitor. Picture is very clear and was easy to assemble.
The only thing I don’t like is the on/off switch. Instead of being on the side or front of the monitor, it’s on the back. Bottom button on a vertical row of 5. Very much not user friendly. I can feel on/off and use it without turning it around but to use any of the other adjustments, you would have to turn fully around. Not convienient at all.