Insignia is the in-house Best Buy brand. I bought this monitor to replace an old CRT monitor. It's not flashy but so far its getting the job done. I had bought a Dell monitor similar to it and found that this Insignia was better in the fact that it has ports for DVI, HDMI, VGA and a headphone jack (all located at the bottom and behind the monitor). *Remember DVI cables carry audio if you want to use the head phone jack. There are no speakers (that I know of on the monitor and no place to mount a speaker bar). The Dell monitor had left off the DVI port while Insignia got this right. Boo on Dell for that! The Dell monitor's base was a little more solid than the Insignia. The Insignia does wiggle around a little if your desk is not solid enough and you bump the desk. The image quality shows the colors are off a little if you are not looking directly right at it. The max resolution on this monitor is about average for an economical purchased. I will be using it for Microsoft office, web surfing and watching some Netflix. I have this hooked up to two computers using a KVM switch. Each of the PCs are Windows 7 and 8.1. There was no software CD to install drivers, I just used the drivers that Microsoft installed during installation. Buttons are directly on the front. Actually scratch the word button it is just a touch to the area the buttons would be at. The power light at the front does go off when you shut it down. The Insignia logo comes up for a second or two on the screen before you can use the monitor. I've had this up and running for a couple of weeks now since this review. So... so far I am satisfied with my buy.

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