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Delivery was prompt.Monitor itself is fine. So it's not due to the video card. This is the type where foam is injected into bags, which expands and fills the box. I've verified all the monitor menu settings are identical. Monitor arrived in good shape, with supplier foam packing, not the manufacturer packing.
I use the clips to hold my reading glasses and headset. $10. I've swapped the video cable between monitors - the color difference stays with the monitor, does not move with the cable. If I'd originally purchased two at the same time, there probably would not have been any difference.BTW, I really like the monitor clips that HP sells. I am satisfied with this supplier.The only minor down side is that the color is not the same as same monitor model which I purchased earlier. I'll try the HP calibration on their website first.That is an HP/monitor issue, not a supplier issue. Works great. I'll just calibrate the monitors someday so that they look the same.
This type of packing is probably better than the manufacturer (and more expensive). The firmware versions are different, so it's possible the "color calibration table" in the firmware is different. [.]. No damage that I've found. It's substantially different.
Viewing angles really are that bad, "Halo" light around the edge of the monitor (This is after sending it back for yet another refurb).With brightness dialed down along with contrast, the picture can look good, but over all it really isn't a good monitor.I was really hoping for a refund whenm I returned the first unit, but it looks like there are a ton of available "Famous" maker HPs out there. I felt I had to add to the "Not so great" category.
while i had it, it was great. lifetime ban on hp products. power just turned off, and will not turn back on.
and you can't get angry at these guys, they're just doing their job. but i'll have to buy from some other corporation. its basically hp telling me, "f you consumer, you got unlucky."well, that does it for me.
i bought this product from amazon on 01/25/2008, and it stopped working today, on 04/20/2009. get the extra warranty whatever it is.an overseas tech working for hp told me its rare but there was nothing they can do since the warranty expired. so everyone, good luck in dealing with these thieving corporations who don't even have to deal with their customers' problems since they outsource the work and tech support overseas and make faulty products that barely outlive their warranties, all to increase their executives' paychecks.
tried different cables, it must be an internal power supply problem.1 yr warranty expired, so i'm left with a huge monitor that doesn't work. but just letting everyone out there know that some of these might not last right after one year.
Too bright, in fact; I had to turn off the ambient light sensor and turn down the brightness to avoid eyestrain.There is some backlight bleed when the display is blank, but it's unnoticeable when showing an image, so it doesn't bother me. You can still swivel it on three axes, though, which is kind of nice.Overall, this is a solid display. I like the extra saturation that glossy displays provide.There are two panels used in this model: one is made by Samsung and other is made by LG (yes, the monitor is made by HP, but they buy the panel used inside of it from other companies). If the panel model starts with "LPL", you have the LG one.I'm generally impressed by the quality of the display. I wouldn't bother with them.The display does have a "portrait mode", but it's not going to be usable if you put it on a desk or other surface directly: the stand is not tall enough to accommodate the width of this display, so when you try to rotate it, it will bang against the desk. The white contrast is excellent. The colors really "pop" and the contrast among whites is extremely precise. There is also an "sRGB" mode on this monitor, which is handy for previewing web work, but you'd be wasting the incredible color of this monitor if you set it permanently.The colors seem to drift kind of quickly, too.
The response time is excellent.Finally, there's a USB hub built into the monitor, which is very convenient. I purchased one of these monitors a couple of months ago. I've heard that this is a common problem with the LG panel but not the Samsung.Note that this is a TN panel, and the usual poor viewing angles apply. I find myself noticing a color cast after about two weeks from calibration. You can find out which you have by holding down the menu button when powering up the monitor and accessing a special "service" menu item. Again, a colorimeter is worth its weight in gold here. For a monitor of this size, this is actually a problem, as it's entirely possible to focus on the center of the screen and have the left side of the display appear kind of red out of the corner of your eye if you're not positioned perfectly. Note that this is a glossy display (one of only a handful left, it seems), with all of the pertinent advantages and disadvantages.
It seems meant more for a wall-mount setup. Movies will look excellent on it, so long as you can cram all of your viewers into the display's poor viewing angle. There are also built in speakers.A few minor issues to comment on:There is no DVI input; it only takes VGA and HDMI. Most displays can last about a month before needing recalibration.I notice no ghosting whatsoever, not even in games. You NEED to use the included color profile with this monitor, or better yet, calibrate it with a colorimeter, if you plan on using this display to its full potential.
The included sRGB color mode is also handy in that it may be used to preview how others may see your images on the web. It is important to keep in mind that the colors may appear more saturated on the display than they will when printed, however. My primary complaints are the poor black contrast, the lack of speaker quality (I'd prefer if they just took $15 off of the cost and didn't include them), and the somewhat high price tag. Its wide color gamut in particular makes it suitable for print image editing, while its complete coverage of sRGB makes it suitable for web image editing. I have the LG panel.
You'll need to purchase a DVI to HDMI cable if you plan on using this with most video cards, but these are pretty cheap and there's no sacrifice of image quality.The speakers are very poor quality. The 6500K and 9300K settings are both kind of off, so you may want to fiddle with the individual RGB sliders until you get an acceptable white point. The contrast between very dark shades, on the other hand, leaves a bit to be desired; no amount of fiddling with the settings or calibration of the display will allow me to easily differentiate the two darkest shades of gray on a color chart with this monitor.I saw no dead pixels on this display.This monitor is BRIGHT. That takes a bit of getting used to.Color fidelity: this is a wide gamut monitor with excellent coverage, including 100% of the sRGB color space.
This annoyed me and when I expressed this, the next person (in this long chain) basically said they couldn't solve my problem and so they gave up. So, each one is in a big hurry and screws up trying to understand your problem by reading only one or two lines in your message. But it was too late. Award winning customer service. It must have been someone equally incompetent. It's just plain incompetence on their part.Here's an update a week later: HP has credited my card so that I am not being charged for an extra monitor. First, the rotation software would not work so I could not turn the screen up on it's side and have the picture rotate into place. I still have my original problem.
It would not, physically, rotate into the vertical position and the color seemed weird. Who. I'm pretty ticked off about this, this morning. After a week, I had to write to the corporate address at least twice to get some action.They turned me over to another part of customer service. But I waited to see if this one would work with the software solution that had been sent.
I just want to know who gave them these awards. The new one was worse than the old one. It took a couple of weeks of speaking with someone who hardly listened to me because he was so busy talking, himself, for him to get around to sending me the same "solution" that had failed before. A small problem with the software for this monitor has, thanks to HP's incredibly poor customer service, turned into a $662 problem.
And I only have my original - of which the reliability is uncertain. The original was back to normal after I just unplugged it. I did not cause or deserve this. I went a couple of weeks with no communication from HP and finally just sent the "new" monitor back. I originally paid around $350 for this, and now HP has charged me ANOTHER $662.
So I called back, and talked to a different guy. By the way, I have always been polite in these conversations with them. This problem is not really a huge deal and the monitor is very nice, even if it only functions conventionally for me. Give me a break. Not that big a deal, but I sent a message to their "award winning" customer service, anyway.
They charged my credit card for $662 for the replacement because I had not sent back the original (good thing). He went through some tests with me and decided to send me a new one. Here's why.My first experience with them was going fine, except that, when using their e-mail support, you get a different support person every time - even if you write back within seconds. During all this, my brand new HP w2408h monitor went blank one day.
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