The Mozo brand is new to Australia, and we were keen to see what it had to offer. At times its PV776 TFT excited, then disappointed. It’s quite feature-barren, with only an RGB D-Sub input and fairly standard specifications so if you’re after the quality of DVI you’d have to move on.
In fact, the Mozo PV776 scored the absolute lowest in terms of specifications and features as it really had little more than power and RGB inputs.
With DisplayMate the PV776 was only average in the colour and greyscale tests (with a mix of low and high scores), but it jumped right back up when we tested in the real-world applications.
There’s an auto-contrast function for toggling between usage modes, and it’s great when you’re swapping between text, gaming or movies as it worked really well to calibrate the screen each time.
The Mozo screen sat rather low to the desktop, but it’s unique in that the display is attached to the stand by a small ball-joint, which gave the screen unprecedented freedom of adjustment. You’d need to sit it on your PC to get it to the right height, but it’s a great bit of design.
While in general the monitor’s display quality won’t blow you away, it’s still quite a useable screen for many applications. Also it’s cheap, $690 isn’t much to pay for a basic but competent 17in TFT screen, especially given the average price in this roundup is $890 -- $200 more than the Mozo.
The Mozo also came with a cracking dead pixel policy and a three year warranty which saw it easily beat any other for value for money.
So while it’s a fairly average screen to look at and very basic, it represents exceptional value for money. For that we’ve given the Mozo our prized Recommended Award, where normally a more fully-featured and expensive model might win.