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HP (Hewlett-Packard) LP3065 30" LCD Monitor

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• Reviewed by: sjlukacs

  Updated: 12-06-09

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

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  Strengths: clear, crisp, bright, fast, overall just excellent. the stand is also excellent. the ability to connect and switch between three computer inputs is also a plus over the apple 30" cinema.

  Weaknesses: i would like more brightness control, like when it is dark in the room to make the screen less bright. also, more out usb ports of its built in hub.

  Overall Evaluation: the large single display, along with its crisp clear and fast picture make it far superior to dual monitor setups, especially in dual-link 2560x1600 resolution mode.

• Reviewed by: slickninja

  Updated: 06-01-09

  Overall Rating: 3 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:1

  Strengths: Large real estate, relatively inexpensive, USB Hub, multiple inputs

  Weaknesses: Overly bright, saturation is absurdly overdone (wide gamut), no OSD, Anti-glare coat gives the display a "dirty" look.

  Overall Evaluation: Wide Gamut monitors in theory sound like a good thing, you get more color representation as the monitor tries to obtain displaying 96% of the Adobe RGB 1998 color profile as opposed 92%. Now that sounds nice, you get 4% more colors but the RGB data sent to a wide gamut display colorimetric's distance between any two colors is much larger. This means you gain more colors at the cost of less accuracy. Using the Delta E as the index for the color measurement, an RGB color of 240,250,200 and 240,250,201 would normally have a Delta E difference of about 1 on a regular LCD, 2 on a Adobe RGB display and on a wide gamut. That's a two fold increase on the Adobe RGB, and 4 on the standard. However, the OS, graphics card, Apps and so forth would all need to recognize this to make use of the colors accurately..So what does all this translate to? This display looks displays colors overly brilliantly. Remember the color setting on your old CRT TV? Its the same effect without the bleeding where the colors are unrealistic and eye fatiguing. The HP is no different. I stupidly ordered this instead of the 305T but found it unusable for motion graphics as it was too bright, too overblown and too inaccurate. As a motion graphics editor I don't demand the same precision as my print media friends do but I do want a display I can stare at for hours and displays the colors well. THe 3065 is NOT that display. .I've used several 30 inch displays. To this day the 305T has been my favorite. I'm boxing this and sending it back. With OS X, there's simply no hardware controls for nVidia but even in windows this display is disgustingly overdone. .Of course you can listen to all the positive reviews, but if you value accuracy at all this is not the display for you. .One strange feature that's welcome but totally unnecessary is the 3065 sports 3 inputs. Seeing that the display cannot do scaling it will not double as an HDTV. It will only accept 1280 x 800 or 2560 x 1600.

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  Updated: 03-18-09

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:1 Years

  Strengths: Gorgeous display, crisp, clear picture.Absolutely the most bang for your buck

  Weaknesses: As with any flat screen, it can get rather hot. This thing puts off a decent amount of heat (not like a 360, but still quite warm).

  Overall Evaluation: I don't know how I ever considered another monitor "good" after owning this one. Every aspect of it, from the USB to the Dual-Link DVI is spot on. This is FAR superior to Dell's excuse for a 30". You will not find a better monitor in almost any price range.

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  Updated: 10-21-08

  Overall Rating: 4 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:5 Months

  Strengths: Nice and bright color reproduction, Power supply built into display, 3 port DVI, good response time, stylish design

  Weaknesses: No HD (high density) component or other connections are offered on the display

  Overall Evaluation: When you see it at first sight one that will catch your attention is the size of this lcd monitor, widely huge 30" screen. For movie lovers and gamers will do like it very much. With 2560 X 1600 scree

• Reviewed by: lunyip

  Updated: 01-21-08

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

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  Strengths: More accurate coloration out of the box than others.

  Weaknesses: The looks can be improved.

  Overall Evaluation: At around $1200, this is one of the highest quality 30" LCD 2560x1600 resolution. I have read numerous reviews online and determine this LCD is the best price and performance ratio among Dell, Samsung, and Gateway.

• Reviewed by: jacmorel2005

  Updated: 12-15-07

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:3 Days

  Strengths: Size, Size, Size, 3 DVI, USB input, Price

  Weaknesses: No scaler, No Video input, Minimum control (Brightness only)

  Overall Evaluation: Great monitor: Amazing real estate, no dead pixel, good image quality for desktop app and games, great refresh speed for games (could not see any ghosting). Great price ($1000)I haven't tested video on it or the adjustable height since it stayed at minimal height. Cable access is somewhat difficult due to the size but that is nothing to fault this monitor as I have the same problem with my 24'. Haven't tested the USB hub yet.I have been using a 24' until now. I am amazed how much more real estate you get with a 30'. I understood that theoretically it has almost 2x more pixels (4MP vs 2.3MP) but this does not prepare you for the impact of seen how big this monitor is. It is HUGE! Make sure you have the space on your desk and be prepared to have to sit a little further from it than even a 24'.I got a great price from techexcess.net (with the $100 mailing rebate from HP it came down at $1000 with H&S). 2x pixels for 2x dollars compared to a 24' = no brainer if you are like me, always switching between windows and wanting to see more information at once.BTW techexcess service was great: they answered emails within 24hr and I received my brand new monitor 1 week after ordering. Thanks to pricegrabber and techexcess for making me save $250 on this monitor!Note: I was originally waiting for the Dell (I am the happy owner of a 24' Dell 2407WFP) but a few reviews including this one (http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,2077914,00.asp) made me reconsider. Time will tell if the HP is as reliable as the Dell but so far I don't regret a bit!PS: I am an occasional gamer, and Crysis on a 30' at 2560x1600 looks amazing (I have a 8800GT which seems to handle this rez without pb. It also scales up smaller resolutions so resolutions like 1920x1200 may be displayed full screen!)

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  Updated: 09-30-07

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:1 Months

  Strengths: Size, Price, Features

  Weaknesses: None

  Overall Evaluation: When shoping I stumbled on to the HP Lp3065 and was looking at 30" moniters. Lucky me I thought that I would be spending two to five hundred more. Having read some reviews I decided to take a chance with the new kid on the block. Resolution, color, Features right out of the box had no problems. My brother and friends having seen it Like it and I think I may have a few more customers lined up For HP. Good product.

• Reviewed by: lanlord1

  Updated: 09-27-07

  Overall Rating: 4 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:2 Weeks

  Strengths: Excellent resolution and clairty. HP outstanding for monitors and printers.

  Weaknesses: Great with monitors very poor preformance with Computers.

  Overall Evaluation: Great HP product. Compared several monitors with in the same price range and found the clarity of the HP would consistantly out preform the competition. Would strongly recommend this product.

• Reviewed by: kraftolino

  Updated: 09-12-07

  Overall Rating: 1 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:2 Months

  Strengths: Good picture

  Weaknesses: Very Noisy when not in use

  Overall Evaluation: Despite the good picture I am terribly disappointed by some regular clicking noise when the monitor is in stand-by mode - considered normal by HP!. Everybody checking out my new screen is laughing about the cheap noise that even a no-name screen would not do. Not recommended unless you are using it only in a noisy office.

• Reviewed by: lilsnooks

  Updated: 08-10-07

  Overall Rating: 4 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:5 Days

  Strengths: humungus screen real estate, good viewing angles, beautiful image quality

  Weaknesses: price, but as far as 30" monitors go, i got it for the very good price of $1400 minus $100 rebate.

  Overall Evaluation: I was considering the Apple 23", Acer 24", Apple 30", Samsung 30", Dell 30", HP 30". At one point, I even considered 2 Acer 20" displays side by side which would have come out to ~$450. Since I make a decent living (but not tons of $) doing video work, my main criteria was: - good image quality (but not top-shelf pro like eizo) - price- screen real estateI worked extensively with the Apple 30" displays when I worked for a company, and so it was hard for me to go to a smaller 24" or a split screen dual 20" setup.I ruled out the Dell pretty quickly based on reviews, cut out the Samsung since it came out a while ago, and then struggled over this and the Apple 30" display. Although Apple has not upgraded their displays in a while, I know well and love the 30" display.All the HP displays at retail stores were hooked up to PCs and appeared "crunchy" to me, but based on excellent online reviews, I bit the bullet and purchased one.Out of the box, the image was a bit too saturated + unnaturally vivid. Using Apple's calibrating tools, I got the image to look just like the Apple displays. Granted, I didn't compare them side to side, but I worked with the Apple 30" display extensively at work, so I was pleasantly surprised that the LP3065 seems to be of equal quality for about $500 less. At this price point, I was willing to shell out the extra $500 to get better image quality, but I'm glad I went with the HP. Clear text, gorgeous pictures and video image.Came with 1 dead pixel. I can live with that, so no complaints. At 1st, it appeared to have many dead pixels and I was super-bummed. But I took the advice of a website which suggested you gently "massage" the lcd - essentially, lightly "wiping" the "dead pixel" and all but 1 disappeared!My laptop does not have the specs to hook up to the HP monitor, but when I upgrade to a macbook pro, I'm very happy to have the option of switching inputs from my laptop to my desktop at the push of a button. But this is icing on the cake. The monitor is gorgeous and I'm so glad I got the 30". Can't imagine less screen real estate now...lol

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