The w1907's 19-inch wide-screen silhouette bears a familiar resemblance to its bigger (22-plus-inch) w-series siblings, but it's less adjustable. Still, with above-average text quality and built-in speakers, it's a good all-purpose display.
HP w1907

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- Adjustments
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- Display
- General
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- Included Hardware
- Included Software
- Interface Connection
- Screen Specs
- Dimensions
Adjustments
| Adjustments | Tilt and swivel adjustments |
| Height-Adjustable Base | No |
| Pivot | No |
| Swivel | Yes |
| Tilt | Yes |
Green
| Energy and Ergonomic Standards Met | EnergyStar |
| Maximum Power Consumption | 49 |
| Standby/Sleep Power Consumption | 2 |
Included Hardware
| HDTV Tuner | 0 |
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| Microphone | 0 |
| TV Tuner | 0 |
| USB Hub | 0 |
| Webcam | 0 |
Interface Connection
| Audio Digital Optical | 0 |
| Component | 0 |
| Composite | 0 |
| Downstream USB ports | 0 |
| DVI | 1 |
| DVI-D | 0 |
| DVI-I | 0 |
| HDMI | 0 |
| Headphone Jack | 0 |
| S-Video | 0 |
| Upstream USB ports | 0 |
| USB | 0 |
| VGA | 1 |
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Pros
Good-looking monitor
Downloadable display-settings software
Cons
Primitive cable management
Tilt-only adjustment
Bottom Line
LCD with built-in speakers sports fewer physical adjustments than larger HP models, but is capable for home and office use.
HP w1907 19-Inch Wide-Screen LCD Monitor
w1907 Review, by Roy Santos December 30, 2007
The w1907's base is actually cantilevered, rather than double-hinged, so it offers only a tilt and swivel mechanism. Two small nubs on either side of the silver-and-black stand secure and hide cables from frontal view. They're rudimentary protrusions that HP calls "cable management."
The glossy-screened w1907 did do very well in PC World Test Center text tests, producing agreeably sharp text in office documents and Web pages alike. It garnered enough praise to raise its score to Very Good in that test segment. It did fine on our graphics test, getting a Good from the judges. They gave it high marks for natural colors on a photo of colorful fruits and Web pages. Skin-tone reproduction and screen brightness, although good, slightly paled in comparison with other monitors.
A glossy bezel, slightly thicker than most in this class of monitors, surrounds the screen, while a touch of silver wraps around the edge of the monitor, providing thin design accents.
This 19-inch wide-screen has built-in speakers, located in the back of the monitor. They are adequate for operating system warnings and other beeps and pops from software applications. But for multimedia sounds, results are mixed. Audio in movies is sufficiently audible, but whispered dialogue is barely discernible to the ear. MP3 playback, on the other hand, is loud enough to hear. You can adjust the speaker volume using the two middle buttons out of the four silver on-screen display (OSD) buttons on the lower right of the display.
The OSD menu was easy to access and navigate. Controls include color temperature, inside which you can find individual adjustments for each RGB channel. Our test unit came with no software, but HP says My Display, its OSD replacement software, would work on this model. I downloaded and installed it, and found that it credibly replaced the monitor OSD and even added basic screen calibration features.
Scenes from Lord of the Rings: Return of the King revealed richly colored costumes and excellent background detail. Images were sharp and video was smooth, even in fast action clips. An autumn scene produced satisfying coppers, oranges, and yellows. Skin tone on actors was uniformly realistic.
Better-looking than many monitors, the HP w1907 would fare decently at a business, a home office, or at home for personal use, while adding some style to the desktop.
--Roy Santos
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Performance
| DisplayMate Motion Test Result | Very Good |
| DVD Motion Test Result | Very Good |
| Gaming Motion Test Result | Very Good |
| Graphics Score | 78.3 |
| Horizontal Viewing Angle Test Result | 180 |
| Interface Tested | Digital |
| Refresh Rate Tested | 60 |
| Text Score | 80.6 |
Review Now! Already own it? Tell us What You Think
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Reviewed by: rusblue
Strengths: Well packaged. Connected , adjusted resolution and hit auto set , worked like a charm
Weaknesses: Speakers were ok - nothing to brag about
Overall: It's a much brighter and nicer screen. The video colors are vivid and has a stylish design. Text and images are very sharp which reduces or eliminate the eye fatigue experienced while working on non-TFT LCD monitors for long periods of time. Overall a pretty decent monitor.
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Reviewed by: savingeye
Strengths: Monitor, picture quality, rigid contruction
Weaknesses: Speaker system is subpar
Overall: Really like the product, however the integrated speaker is very tinny. Will not recommend if you are wanting to watch DVDs or use as a media entertainment. The monitor itself had great picture quality and resolution. For the price is a great purchase, specially if you are getting on a combo deal, but budget to get a speaker system to supplement your experience.
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Reviewed by: dare_devil
Strengths: Good picture quality, nice contrast ratio, DVI input.
Weaknesses: No HDMI support, the stand could be designed better, the location of connection ports couldn't be worse.
Overall: I like the looks of the monitor. I am not a big fan of widescreen aspect ratio for PC. I am using it in 4:3 ratio so it's a waste some real estate. Looks like my PC does not support the native resolution of the monitor, therefore, the text is not as clear. However, when I hook it up to my laptop then the monitor performs a dot by dot scaling which looks amazing. i can't figure why it doesn't do the same with the desktop PC. I heard comments about the weak speakers but the sound is loud enough for a monitor. The monitor has it's separate volume control from your PC. May be that's the setting others users need to play with to crank up the volume. One think where HP fouled is the location of the connecting ports. It's hard as hell to get to the speaker port once the monitor is assembled.
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Reviewed by: aceskull
Strengths: Great Perfomance, bright, gray to gray scale, no dead pixel
Weaknesses: stand
Overall: I love this LCD, it's 10x better than my old 17" LCD. The clarity of this LCD is really amazing. Gray to Gray to scale is better than most avg. LCDs. I hardly see any ghosting effects. Watching movies is really nice. I really recommend this LCD, the only thing I didn't like is the stand only pivots doesn't go up or down, otherwise its cool. 4 out of 5
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Reviewed by: levilie
Strengths: Clear,Sharp and Bright Images.
Weaknesses: Nothing
Overall: The text is sharp, the images are bright, and the color quality is really Great...The Set Up is very Easy too...the Built in Speakers is a Plus...Its worth purchasing. I highly recommend this product.
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