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Due to the overwhelmingly positive reviews on Amazon and the fact that Testberichte.de has set the monitor to square one, I opted for this screen. I can not identify the problems described by other buyers. 120 Hertz on the PC only run on the DVI adapter. HDMI is obviously only the optional connection of peripherals such. As a 3D Bluray player or a 3D satellite TV box. It would therefore be absurd to want to operate the screen using the HDMI adapter to the graphics card.

Anyone who uses a Bluray burner or the appropriate PC hardware and uses WIN 7 64bit Ultimate, is also likely in the next few years have no difficulty in being able to operate the screen properly with all kinds of 3D applications. My PC is equipped among other things with a Bluray drive from LG, a NVIDIA GEFORCE 570, with 16GB of DDR3 SDRAM, a 256 SSD drive from Samsung and Asus Maximus IV Extreme. I admit that this is not a cheap solution. But who expects that all components work together properly and smoothly and operate a 3 D screen will, must necessarily engage a little deeper into their pockets.

After I connected the monitor, he was immediately recognized, without having to install the supplied driver on the CD. A quick NVIDIA 3D Vision set up and everything was ready. To easily view images or movies in 3D and be able to adapt the depth effect individually, I recommend Power DVD 12 Ultra. The quality of the 3D effect depends certainly on the imagery used and is even less appropriate imagery, still appealing. The best effect achieved obvious 3D games that are fully compatible with the NVIDIA or images that have been manufactured with a high quality 3D camera. NVIDIA offers multiple slide shows for download, showing what is able to achieve under optimal conditions the system. The slide show "Cars", a skin then really from the stool. I bought the movie John Carter, and was quite satisfied with the result, the Power DVD achieved, on the whole. Since I have not seen the film in the cinema, I can not say whether the 3D effect in the cinema or on the screen better comes into its own as well. The conversion from 2D to 3D is a nice gimmick, but the result should not be compared to a pure 3D solution. Switching from 2D to 3D is always the software side. That is perfectly adequate in my opinion.

The screen is almost too big at a viewing distance of about 50 cm. A disadvantage is that the display can be adjusted in either the height nor the inclination angle. I have my bass speaker used as a stand. Thus, my eyes are level with the center of the screen. That is not ergonomic, seems to me, as a carrier of progressive lenses, however contrary. The best solution would be a three axis adjustable wall mount. The required holes brings the monitor already.

The on-screen menu is self-explanatory and the Touchpoints ergonomically good to use. Set the monitor from the ground up to light, can be permanently corrected with little effort. If necessary you have to turn off the previously controlled by a sensor brightness control. First, to fix down the brightness, contrast and gamma value in the NVIDIA Control Panel. This causes obviously much, however, is required in order to finally readjust better by software can. In the next step, the corresponding values ​​must be regulated on the monitor side as far down until an acceptable black level has been established. The picture is now too dark. Now, however, can be optimally adjust the values ​​in the NVIDIA Control Panel. To optimize one should rely on the Windows internal monitor calibration. At the end of the monitor provides a well-Drawing, color fidelity image with decent black levels. If the picture after this calibration affects too dark, you can finally raise the monitor brightness and contrast in 2D mode carefully.

The NVIDIA glasses is probably a bit clunky. However, those who like to sit on the nose glasses with Porsche or Colani Design, is likely to be charmed by the spectacle. The glasses battery can be recharged via USB, replace the nose gusset and a lens cloth is also included. The synchronization between the screen and the glasses work perfectly even with a seat pitch of about 4 m.

Since I have been controlling my monitor in 2D mode, the picture gets a little too dark, if you go into 3D mode and the glasses touches. In some applications, especially in games, you can easily compensate for this, however. For this, the 2D image is consistent. Perhaps we should encourage at NVIDIA to implement for the 2D and 3D operation manual separate modulations. The exchange between the two profiles for the 2D and 3D operation should be automatic then again.

All in all, the 3D technology is not perfect yet. The hardware seems now to meet the requirements. However, the software side could be improved still a lot. It would be nice also if there was an optimum, uniform format. I personally would have preferred passive 3D because of the lighter and cheaper glasses. Due to compatibility issues (missing drivers; not all glasses can be used, etc.) and the line or grid generation in HD mode, I have preferably recourse to the proven Shuttertechnologie. Until the industry sold their old junk and the latest, glasses-free technology brings cost effectively to market, the Acer is certainly a very good choice. Charisma technologies can afford only wealthy people to apologize.

Conclusion: I would highly recommend the monitor with a clear conscience, since it provides very good results even in 2D mode.