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product_id: 3258212
title: "VS197D-P 18.5\" WXGA 1366x768 VGA Back-lit LED Monitor, Black"
brand: "asus"
price: "KD 99.37"
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# 5ms ultra-fast response time 50,000,000:1 smart contrast ratio 18.5" widescreen display VS197D-P 18.5" WXGA 1366x768 VGA Back-lit LED Monitor, Black

**Brand:** asus
**Price:** KD 99.37
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🚀 Elevate your workspace with ASUS clarity and speed — don’t get left behind!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** VS197D-P 18.5" WXGA 1366x768 VGA Back-lit LED Monitor, Black by asus
- **How much does it cost?** KD 99.37 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Best For

- asus enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted asus brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Crisp 18.5" WXGA Display:** Perfectly sized for productivity without cluttering your desk.
- • **Lightning-Fast 5ms Response:** Smooth visuals that keep up with your multitasking pace.
- • **Energy-Smart LED Backlighting:** Eco-friendly brightness that saves power and your energy bills.
- • **Brilliant 50M:1 Contrast Ratio:** Experience deeper blacks and vibrant colors for sharper presentations.
- • **Corporate Stable Model Certified:** Guaranteed availability and rapid replacement for zero downtime.

## Overview

The ASUS VS197D-P is an 18.5-inch LED-backlit monitor featuring a 1366x768 WXGA resolution and an ultra-fast 5ms response time. With a staggering 50,000,000:1 ASUS Smart Contrast Ratio, it delivers crisp, vibrant visuals ideal for professional environments. Designed for office efficiency, it includes energy-saving LED technology, built-in power adapters for a slim profile, and is Corporate Stable Model certified to ensure consistent availability and rapid replacement service. This monitor is the perfect blend of performance, reliability, and eco-conscious design for the modern professional.

## Description

Product Description               Asus VS197D-P 18.5 inch Widescreen 50,000,000:1 5ms VGA LED LCD Monitor (Black)                  From the Manufacturer               Productivity Class VS Series Slim LED MonitorsMake What You See, AmazingIf you're looking for some serious business monitors, then get a monitor that's made for it. VS series monitors are built from the ground up to be used in the office environment with embedded power adapters into the design while still remaining slim and stylish. For added convenience, these monitors are VESA compatible, so you can neatly place it on a wall. VS monitors deliver Full HD quality visuals and are LED backlit delivering brighter displays than non-LED backlit monitors. With an ultra-fast 2ms response time, enjoy smooth motion playback for videos and movies. The first monitors to be featured in the renowned Corporate Stable Model (CSM) program, VS monitors are guaranteed in stable supply for a minimum of one year so you can order the same model without worry of it being discontinued and, with the included advanced swap replacement service, saving you time should the unit require servicing. These monitors are EPEAT Gold and ENERGY STAR certified to reduce environmental impact and save on energy costs.Learn More View largerASUS Smart Contrast Ratio (ASCR) is a dynamic contrast ratio that measures how dark a screen can get. With high dynamic contrast ratios of 50,000,000:1, ASCR delivers a more defined image especially while watching night scenes in movies, playing games, or giving presentations. View largerASUS Splendid Video Intelligence Technology, or Splendid for short, is a quick image setting selectable through buttons on the monitor. Featuring different scenario settings ranging from game to scenario modes, choose your preferred one for your task at hand. View largerFeaturing the latest in display technology, connect to your devices with an assortment of options. More inputs give you more options for customizing your PC setup like setting up multiple displays. ASUS Monitor Series VB VK VW VE VH VS PA VG Panel Sizes 17" - 22" X X X X X 23" - 25" X X X X X X 27" X X X Built-in Speakers X X X* X* X* Slim Design X Picture-in-Picture X X* X Webcam X HDMI X X* X* X* X* X X DisplayPort X X* X X 3D Ready X IPS Panel X* X *Select ModelsKey FeaturesFull HD displays for amazing high-definition visual clarity (Learn more)2ms response times for smooth motion playback LED backlit for energy-efficient operation and brighter luminanceBuilt-in power adapters for space-saving yet still slim design50,000,000:1 ASUS Smart Contrast Ratio for more defined images in dark colors (Learn more)Advanced connectivity for convenient ways to connect your PCs and notebooks (Learn more)Splendid Video Intelligence Technology quick image presets for your preferred task at hand (Learn more)Corporate Stable Model certified for one year guaranteed supply (Learn more)ASUS Rapid Replacement service for quick product replacement should a unit be sent for repair (Learn more)Should something happen to your ASUS monitor, rest assured, you're covered with a 3-year system and panel warranty to protect it from the unfortunate. For even greater convenience, one-of-a-kind ASUS Rapid Replacement cross-shipping sends you a replacement unit as soon as the defective unit is in the mail—shortening your waiting time.

## Features

- 18.5" 1366x768 LED display with 5ms response time

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Standing screen display size | 18.5 Inches |
| Screen Resolution | 1366x768 |
| Max Screen Resolution | 1366 x 768 |
| RAM | 1 GB |
| Brand | ASUS |
| Series | ASUS COMPUTER INTL |
| Item model number | VS197D-P |
| Item Weight | 6.1 pounds |
| Product Dimensions | 17.6 x 14.2 x 7.8 inches |
| Item Dimensions  LxWxH | 17.6 x 14.2 x 7.8 inches |
| Color | Black |
| Computer Memory Type | DRAM |
| Department | womens |
| Manufacturer | Asus |
| ASIN | B005PAIVII |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Date First Available | September 24, 2011 |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** ASUS
- **Screen Size:** 18.5 Inches
- **Resolution:** HD
- **Aspect Ratio:** 1.78:1
- **Screen Surface Description:** Glossy

## Images

![VS197D-P 18.5" WXGA 1366x768 VGA Back-lit LED Monitor, Black - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71SuRynTzML.jpg)

## Questions & Answers

**Q: does it have an hdmi connectivity**
A: per the discription:50,000,000:1 ASUS Smart Contrast Ratio dynamically enhances the display’s contrast to delivering lifelike images; Inputs of D Sub, DVI, HDMI

**Q: does this monitor have DVI connectitvity?**
A: There's only one VGA connector on the back and that's it.

**Q: Does this Model has an HDMI connection?**
A: http://www.pcworld.com/product/1410160/asus-vs24ah-p-widescreen-lcd-monitor.html

**Q: what is the response time?**
A: The response time is 6ms. I watched netflix on it without any problem. I'm not sure about playing games

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Love it!  Great bang for the buck IPS panel!
*by J***A on January 30, 2016*

I do wish it didn't default to full brightness among other things. That full brightness default is really really bad and probably will cause light bleedthrough and other such things to be far worse in a far shorter time than it should be. I googled around a bit (I don't have proper calibration tools) and read a review that said to set it to standard mode with 99, 96, 100 colors with a brightness around 35-40% (I ended up finding 35 to be the best balance.) The default contrast of 80 was about right, but I found it a bit easier on my eyes to go down slightly to 75%. With this it's about as close as it's going to get without needing special adjustment software to get white balances and such exactly right. It should default to something closer to this sort of level and let people adjust away from ideal to suit their tastes rather than having to adjust towards ideal. If they do this for the sake of store displays (and come on, who puts an IPS panel like this up in a store display?) then it should simply have a store display mode like most devices have that set settings appropriately.But I won't knock off a star for bad default settings. It's a matter of a few minutes for the user to adjust settings after all (though quite a few more to figure out what actually is right. Still, their sRGB mode isn't too bad as far as presets go.) That's just a minor annoyance. Similarly, I will state that actually operating the menus is very confusing with the button layout they've chosen (plus it would be nice if the buttons were on the side -- or perhaps just the up and down) but again, that's something you do once when you first get it and likely never again. Putting that aside, everything else is just wonderful. Obviously you're not getting a true professional photographer level IPS panel display here, but for this price range you're getting shockingly close. Given that this is priced almost exactly the same as a TN panel display of comparable quality (or less even) it's simply an amazing bang for the buck choice. The colors are far far better (not "more saturated" just clearer and more accurate,) the grays (lines and etc) look better, and blacks even look blacker (I didn't even realize how bad my old TN panel display was at blacks! And it was LED backlit too, so it has no excuses at all.) Also, on my previous TN panel display I could see the dithering it was using every time I did anything with a lot of motion such as moving a window around. It drove me insane. No visible dithering here. Probably it has to compensate less since it can more accurately produce a wider range of colors. That or it's just a heck of a lot faster in its dithering such that my eyes simply can't pick it out.I was a bit concerned about the latency rating. After some study I've come to realize that latency ratings are very poorly reported anyway however. In fact, most TN panels claiming as low as 2ms latency can still be closer to 10ms in aggregate rating (it's not just about one color to a similar color, but large changes particularly when changing brightness of a pixel significantly.) Anyway, one of the first things I did after I stopped wowwing at how much better everything 2D looked was to fire up an old game, Unreal Tournament 2004. Now, you might be thinking "oh, that's an older game. It's not pushing things as hard as a newer game would do!" Actually, in respect to testing a monitor it's just the opposite. Newer games are slower paced with slower movements (more body awareness in particular) and generally lower range movements with smoother animations. In other words, a newer game is designed to change less per frame than an older game. (In fact, many go so far as to enforce a 30 FPS framerate limit. Then they change even less obviously...) Unreal Tournament 2004 can get extremely fast-paced with many movements being done more by a quick very slight flick of the wrist on a good high DPI mouse (and I disable mouse smoothing and acceleration and set USB polling higher for as close to a 1:1 response as I can reasonably get -- thankfully my drivers support disabling it for the system since you can't simply hack the USB driver DLL anymore with Windows versions past XP) and I started up an "instagib" session where a single shot with the "laser" style weapon is enough to kill -- or be killed. This requires one to move fast and act faster. In other words, I tested this screen with a _LOT_ of motion. If there was any ghosting at all, it was beyond my eyes to pick it out. The game ran just beautifully with me having absolutely no problems whatsoever (other than being a bit out of practice.) Oh, and it looked a heck of a lot better than it used to (too bad I had gotten rid of my CRT in favor of a TN panel back before 2004.) In fact, I'd go so far as to say that the better handling of blacks makes it much clearer in games where sometimes you might have a lot of shadows in some areas.Also a plus is the fact that it supports not only DVI, but VGA and HDMI as well. With HDMI audio is output to a line output audio jack (analog only I think) so it actually can handle audio (which is more than most monitors with no speakers can do.) Obviously that's inconvenient if you rely on HDMI for audio, but overall it's actually the best possible way a display like this could possibly handle HDMI without actually having speakers and frankly I'm impressed that they thought of it. Hopefully not many people rely on HDMI audio with computer systems anyway, but I am thinking of connecting a Roku stick to it some time just to enjoy how much nicer it would look on this screen.I don't recommend this for a professional CAD designer or photo editor to use on a regular basis, but for this price range I can safely say that this screen would be a beautiful replacement for all the TN panel displays people are buying.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Impressive performance and features for the price
*by C***T on October 1, 2018*

I'm very pleased with this monitor. I needed to replace my second screen and didn't want to spend a lot, but needed a monitor with 1920x1200 resolution. This seemed like a decent bet. It has exceeded my expectations with regard to performance. The clarity is excellent -- it rivals my primary screen which cost three times as much!The monitor is very lightweight. It comes with both DVI and VGA cables, which was unexpected. I like that there's no power transformer or wall wart. It has just a regular power cord. Set up is simple (just attached the base and no tools are needed).Of course, at this price point some features are not present. For example, while the screen can be tilted back and forth a bit, it does not have any up/down adjustment, nor can it be swiveled into portrait mode. There's no USB connectors and no speakers. But for me, none of those were deal breakers. I wanted a good quality monitor that was affordable, and this hit the mark 100%. Plus, it does not scrimp on connections. There's DVI, VGA and HDMI. I'm using DVI at present since the PC I'm using it with is a few years old. But, my next PC will probably have a HDMI connection, making this monitor future-proof (well, as future-proof as any tech product can be).If you're looking for a basic monitor that does not scrimp on image quality, this should definitely be on your short list. Also, check Amazon Warehouse for used ones. I got mine there (it was probably a customer's return). It looks brand new, and only ran me $127.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Works with MacOS, Rare issues
*by S***J on January 10, 2018*

Overall, I am pleased with this purchase.I needed a second HD monitor at home and this one was affordable. It works via plug-and-play with the MacOS through the HDMI port on a Macbook Pro. Easy to set up through MacOS display settings. Colors and frame rate is fine for what I use it for.Screen is not retina display so you may notice a difference depending on the monitor you use. Sometimes when the computer wakes or starts up, application windows may hide partially off-screen. I'm not sure what's at fault but you can easily drag them back into view. Rarely, the HD monitor may shut off for a few seconds and come back on. Normally not an issue for me but could be for gamers.Disclaimer: I was using this monitor with a 2013 Macbook Pro via HDMI port for over a year.Pros:- Viable display for Macbook Pro / Mac via HDMI port- Screen is adjustable through settings and ideal for my use- Comes with VGA adaptorCons:- Sometimes application windows hide or appear off-screen where they need to be dragged into view (not sure if OS or monitor driver issue)- Rarely, the monitor may shut off for a few seconds and then come back on to work for a long time (not sure if hardware or monitor issue)- May notice a difference between displays (say if one is retina and the other is HD)

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