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  • Overall Rating
    3 stars 3 Star Review
    Reviewed by: Donpoppie

    Updated:01-21-08

    Duration of ownership:3 Months

    Strengths: Screen size, resolution, USB connection

    Weaknesses: Footprint and smears on the screen

    Overall Evaluation: I have had this monitor for a few months now and it is probably the best monitor that I have ever owned. The picture is beautiful in most applications such as movies, pictures and text, but I have noticed a very poor picture when it comes to dark colors. I do a considerable amount of music production/audio editing and with some of my programs FL Studio 6.0 to be exact the background color is do dark and undesirable it makes it very difficult to see all of the applications editing features and functions. The screen size is very large and allows for all of my software with multiple windows to be up and accessible without minimizing or moving around different windows. Great for musicians that tend to run into this problem. Overall the monitor looks so good that it almost makes the music sound better just by the appearance on the screen. I would recommended this to all of my friends with little caution.

  • Overall Rating
    5 stars 5 Star Review
    Reviewed by: Bestware

    Updated:03-25-08

    Duration of ownership:6 Months

    Strengths: Brightview clear screen, colors and text flawless, great monitor stand rotates to portrait and landscape positions, built-in speakers.

    Weaknesses: Buggy pivot control software for rotating monitor.

    Overall Evaluation: This is by far the best monitor I have used. I ordered it directly from HP. It has a beautiful brightview clear screen with a nice shiny black bezel around it. I develop software for a living and use this monitor more than 12 hours a day. The supplied pivot software for rotating monitor is buggy, especially after updating video drivers. It does not always work right and support to get it to work is not there. Speakers are not the best for music and video, but for basic audio feedback, it is nice to have them there. Two USB ports on the side of the monitor are a nice addition. There is a nice accessory pack available that allows hanging my headset on the side of the monitor, as well as pictures, pen or flower.

  • Overall Rating
    5 stars 5 Star Review
    Reviewed by: domitron

    Updated:05-07-07

    Duration of ownership:2 Days

    Strengths: Beautiful colors, extremely sharp, great contrast ratio, highly adjustable stand, USB ports, screen can rotate 90 degrees.

    Weaknesses: High-gloss screen reflects lights from behind easily. Default settings must be turned way down. Provided software is buggy (even at ver. 1.11).

    Overall Evaluation: Before this monitor I had tried Samsung's 226bw for a week, a comparable widescreen offering. This screen is much better. The blacks are much darker, there is no backlight bleeding at all, and the colors are much richer than Samsung's screen. I am very picky about my displays, but this unit does everything I want. It has no bad pixels at all, and this is common with these units I read. Movies look great on the screen and are ghost-free as does first person shooters. The colors are beautiful, although I do admit that for serious graphic artwork you'd best stick with a CRT since all LCDs have a relatively narrow color gamut, although are far, far sharper. One silly thing about this monitor are the default brightness and contrast settings, which are way too high and make the screen look worse than it should. To get the best picture on this unit, I recommend the user turn the brightness and contrast both way down. I have my brightness down to 80 and contrast to 65. These settings give more accurate color, sharpen text enourmously, and are still so bright and contrasting that one almost has to squint in a dim room to look at the screen. Overall, I love this screen.

  • Overall Rating
    3 stars 3 Star Review
    Reviewed by: giergiel

    Updated:04-23-07

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: USB included, bright,

    Weaknesses: major problems with calibration, text rendering

    Overall Evaluation: Display on my new iMac was perfect straight out of the box, no need to adjust anything, this wasn't by ANY measure. Grossly washed out, very harsh on the eyes text. After one hour of trying to calibrate this monitor (Somehow HP was too lazy to include a predefined color profile), much improvement but still far from what I see on my iMac. So despite my best efforts I have two screens now sitting side by side, one clearly inferior in terms of text rendering and that's the HP. Another problem: color shifts if you look at it from anything but a perfect 90 degree angle, this is especially pronounced in the portrait mode where additionally corners are much dimmer even when in perfect straight on viewing situation. Reflective (i.e. highly polished mirror like finish) not very helpful in normal usage, nice for video though. The monitor could use S-video input at this price ($330) Will probably return it to the store. (minor quibble: I like clean elegant Apple styling, being forced to look at a shiny phony-chrome HP logo, little buttons and totally unnecessary labeling all day long is simply not nice, also the stand is way too massive, out of place visually speaking)

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HP (Hewlett-Packard) W2207 Black/Silver 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor
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