did anybody have any new info about if the problem still remains with any monitors that were sent or resent recently??

Is there any news about getting screen updated / fixed by manufacturer?

Just to add my 2 pence. I bought my monitor from Camgeeker on ebay

It also has substantial overscan. Another problem is that there is a bug with the colour settings so that each time I switch the monitor off and on the colour resets to default and then if I increment the saturation and decrement it again, the colour goes back to how I set it. Wierd.

Any hope of firmware update?

Does anyone know of a similarly priced monitor with peaking that does not have overscan? Thanks.

My PV Deal H056 monitor arrived last week and I have just done a detailed evaluation. I was concerned about it like others here. I have done some comparison photos (posted below) and find the PV Deal H056 monitor to be better for me than my Feb 2012 Lilliput. You'll see in the photos the H056 WB looks off. I spent >30 minutes just trying to color balance it with a MacBeth chart, this is it's weakest point.

My example of the H056 monitor seems to have had a 2nd serial number sticker placed over the original one. Was it revised? People can check against my serial number in the photo below. Did I get the first revised one at PV? Did anyone else get one like this?

The resolution is great, that was why I bought it. Easily focusable with or without the peaking function. The peaking function is a fixed level of peaking (or sharpening -white outline), just they labeled it "focus" and it does help to focus. The menus are easy to navigate and more responsive than my Lilliput 569 (the menu system on the 569 is a mess, because it uses push-knobs with slow responsiveness instead of buttons and has a lot of options).

Color Rendition: It is definitely a little challenged in this department. The presets are 5600 6500 and 9300 (I think). The GH2 OB screen looks much more accurate (see photos). maxing out the brightness or contrast or saturation has the effect of washing out the reds, greens and blues. All three colors are not accurate in their subtler shades. @Vitaliy_Kiselev *IF they could add in the firmware a user definable color balance in the menu (like on the Lilliput 569, user definable RGB controls) , that would make this a great monitor.

Overscanning: There is a tiny amount of over-scanning on the top of the frame (less than 2% I'd say) and slight (ca. 5% over-scanning on the sides (see photos). I believe this is done to display in 16:9 properly.

CORRECTION (Oct. 13th): I have added to more images below. I checked the image on the chip and found the framing was not exactly off, the GH2 is generating a grey line in display mode 3 (underscan) and that is what looks like a white line on my photo. check the last to photos which are screen grabs. I checked it again and posted again on p.7. The H056 is not over-scanning in the vertical dimension, it is accurate!

16:10 stretching/oval effect: I am lucky this is not present on my monitor (like it is on my Lilliput). See photos.

Saving your settings: @abadseed2 mine is saving my settings, even with all power pulled off. But I did notice while color balancing it, one setting (contrast I think), had decided to not to display what I had dialed in. it "woke up" when I went to tweak the setting and the problem didn't return.

Build quality: It is plastic, but harder plastic than my Lilliput. The flexible sunshade is really nice and won't break like my Lilliput 569 fixed shade could.

Screen: it is glossy. Will have to check it out on an outdoor shoot, if it's problematic.

Screen size: 5.6"

AC power supply: works but cheap.

DC power: The battery plate fits a sony NPF battery, but is a little tight to get it on and off on my example.

Shipping Time: I ordered via the daily deal on 8/20, it showed up in the china post tracking on 8/22 and it arrived in 24 days on 9/13 to the USA.

Tracking: I asked VK in a PM, within hours he said they'd email me and I should check my junk folder (it wasn't in there). He followed up sending them a second email and then I had an email from the seller with the tracking #. I think they were 1 extra day slow to mail it. I am too when receiving funds via Paypal (too many scams). Or maybe they had to revise one :-) for my shipment?

If you are in the USA, you can track it on USPS.com once it enters the USA (mine took 22 days to show more than that it had left Shanghi). I think customs in the USA is holding stuff from China Post longer than in other countries. It might not be the seller's fault.

The HDMI connector in the back was finicky with one cable and stable with another. I have heard of this happening with all HDMI cables/connections, and I don't have much experience with HDMI.

For the deal price, I am very happy with it at first glance. I will use it for focus and my tests reveal I can count on it for framing headroom as well. Color should be judged on the GH2 swivel screen if at all.

To everyone who wants a monitor with no over-scanning, perfect 16:9 and perfect color... I don't think it exists anywhere near this price. I had a chance to play with a 1500$ TVlogic and found while it had a lot of great features, the menus were slow to react and the red peaking was almost too much to see the shot through it.

My background: I used to be a focus puller back when we were shooting on film and am used to looking at really expensive equipment with a lot of detail (b/c scratches on film ruin everyone's work).

OK, trying to add the rest... Oct 13th, I added 2 screen grabs at the bottom to show this headroom framing issue is actually a non-issue: the H056 top and bottom framing are accurate. See my post on p.7 for more detail.

@CFreak Thanks for great review! Could you please post a picture of your GH2 with the LCD mounted on the hotshoe? This would help me estimated the bulkiness :)

@Peter123456 I agree that overscan is a more serious fault than inaccurate color or not having good peaking functionality, but I don't consider it a dealbreaker necessarily. When mine finally arrives, I plan to use the camera's LCD for framing, and the monitor for focus. Not ideal, but I don't want to pay $50 shipping and wait another two months to get another questionable monitor from China. If it has the correct aspect ratio, and only minor overscanning as @CFreak reports, I'll probably keep it.

I also doubt that clipping the subject is likely to happen with a monitor that overscans, for me at least. I'd be more likely to give too much headroom and space on the sides, given a monitor that overscans, as I'd be basing my framing decisions on a cropped view.

@CFreak Is that the 5" Lilliput monitor? I can't really tell. I have the newer 7" one, not the 5D piece of crap and it doesn't display that squeeze effect you're getting there. Odd.

Monitor color temp options are: 5600, 6500, 9300 degrees kelvin. Most computer monitors are natively D65 (aka 6500 deg. kelvin) so that is perhaps the H056 native white point too.

Mine arrived today (ordered Aug. 28), and I wanted to post just some initial thoughts.

First of all, it does not have any issues with horizontal squeeze related to a 16x10 aspect ratio. Circles are circular, which is a huge relief as anything else would have been a near deal-killer for me.

Colors don't look exactly right, and I haven't had a chance to do in-depth testing, but I can say that they do seem good enough for my purposes. I color correct everything I shoot, so slightly off colors on a monitor are not a major issue for me.

There is a slight overscan, but it isn't huge. I would guess about 3-5%. Again, it isn't bad enough to be a deal-killer for me, but I will need to make a conscious effort to always verify framing on the camera's LCD, to ensure there are no boom mics or other problematic artifices entering my shot just outside the view of this monitor.

The screen itself is gorgeous. The display PPI is impressive - to borrow a buzzword from the laptop / smartphone industry, it looks "retina" at standard viewing distances. It's quite glossy, but the included sunshade should help mitigate reflections.

The build quality is about what I was expecting given the price point. It doesn't feel like it'll break spontaneously, but I wouldn't want to ever accidentally drop it, or run into something with it while carrying my rig around. The only issue I've found so far with the physical build is that the top and bottom 1/8" screw holes don't quite line up with the outer plastic encasement on my unit. I was able to fasten an articulating arm, but I had to align it very carefully to not thread the screw in incorrectly.

In closing, my experiences so far are consistent with what @CFreak posted, but not with what others have said regarding severe horizontal squeeze or large-scale overscanning. This makes me wonder if there were some small improvements made in or before August.

More thoughts coming soon.

@CFreak No, just the one S/N# sticker, and the build date is blank.