If you are spending more than a grand on a monitor, you'd hope it would have an option for a digital connection and a couple extras to sweeten the deal such as USB ports or a pivot option. The Acer FP751 is a big, bright, and beautiful LCD monitor at a good price, but there are competing monitors that deliver even more for the same price. As graphics cards supporting both analog and digital outputs become more common, an LCD with a digital input will provide better image quality because it avoids the analog to digital conversion, which can result in image defects such as pixel jitter. The FP751 has a three-button control panel and a power button on the front of the bezel. The FP751 includes a pair of built-in stereo speakers, but they are wimpy and hampered by the lack of a mute button or volume control on the front panel.
Setup is easy.
The monitor comes with a utility that displays a test image, and then you use the front panel controls to automatically sync on that image. On our tests, it did a perfect job of adjusting the image size and position and clock timing for a jitter-free display. At its native resolution of 1,280 by 1,024, we saw no apparent pixel defects in the image, and the screen appeared to be fairly uniform with only some brighter glow at the top and bottom edges. Colors looked good and were well saturated, and the display showed no color tracking flaws. We did notice some faint banding in the darker shades on color ramps, which makes the display less appealing for high-end graphics work.