Thursday, May 1, 2008

Hewlett-Packard w2408 monitor

Hewlett-Packard w2408 is an attractive 24-inch wide-screen LCD that uses a bright screen to produce eye-skip images.

It has a native resolution of 1920X1200 pixels, enabling it to display a good deal more than standard 20-22-inch displays. For example, you can easily see the two Microsoft Word documents side by side with a little space to spare. The w2408 is also an impressive contrast ratio of 1000:1, a brightness rating and a maximum of 400 nits. It also has a 5 ms pixel response time, making it a good choice to watch your favorite movies or play fast action games.

HP has chosen to equip the w2408 with a bright screen, which is both good and bad. Glossy screens are remarkable for the production of bright colors and deep blacks that are difficult to achieve with the most common mat screens. Unfortunately, brilliant screens are also prone to display reflections of lights background, furniture and their activities, which can be a real problem in an office.

The w2408 is wearing a shiny silver stand with a thin black bezel around the LCD. The stand is pleasantly flexible, because it provides the pivot, height, tilt and rotation adjustments. We note that when we turn our stand, the angle of vision causes limited to the screen appear dark when we switched from landscape to portrait mode, which is a type of LCD panel used in the w2408, May and be a concern for some users. On the other hand, if you use the normal display in its landscape mode, and you do not tend to overcrowding colleagues around watching the screen, the angle of view oddity May not be a question for you.

Angle of vision aside, the ability to change portrait mode means that you can access Web pages or long documents without making a lot of scrolling. In landscape mode, you can easily view two documents side by side, or display a spread of design or large spreadsheets without wasting time scrolling.

Connectivity includes USB, VGA and a compatible DVI-HDCP. The HDCP compatible DVI is a plus, but we also see other video inputs - such as S-video and composite - made available, especially for a display which is targeted at the consumer and office equipment markets .

We find the HP w2408 be a very good performance, displaying rich, detailed images with deep blacks. Text net, even in small font sizes. A quick check of our favorite movies and 3D games only minor ghosting with fast moving images. Our only real complaint with this display is a little narrow angle of vision, although this is mainly a concern if you see these documents on screen with colleagues.

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