Well I purchased the HP LP2475W based on all my research here, and I have to say coming from a Sony Trinitron CRT, it's very disappointing so far. I was aware that I have to calibrate the color, which I've been attempting to do for hours, trying a slew of different programs. on it. There's just so many things I'm unhappy with about this monitor, it's difficult to know where to start. First off, I do NOT have a hardware color calibrator. I concede this could be handicapping me, but I'd be AMAZED if ANYTHING could solve the problems I'm having with reds and light greens. No matter how extreme I push color tweaking software (even at the expense of messing up all other colors), I can never get reds to appear natural. They always have this unnerving piercing quality to them. For light greens the problem is quite similar, though not quite as bad. In its defense, other colors can come through almost flawlessly (after tweaked), but there seems to be no compromise on solid red shades or light greens.
What drives me more nuts is the uneven lightness distribution. The entire right side is noticeably darker than the left. It's kind of nerve wracking, like it makes me think I should scoot to one side in order to view it properly, but that doesn't help. The problem is also present on the bottom part of the screen, but to a lesser extent. This alone is enough to make me return the monitor, I can't get used to this.
Movie viewing isn't bad, but any compression in videos becomes much more pronounced. I guess this could be blamed on size more than anything.
Ghosting is visible, but I'll admit, I don't notice it for most situations, even in gaming. Response time is about as excellent as anyone can expect on a LCD monitor I believe.
Input lag is very significant in gaming. At native resolution with vsync on, it's atrocious, everything becomes lagged (and no, I don't mean a low framerate). With vsync off, it's still pretty noticeable, but I find the "tearing" on the LCD much more pronounced on an LCD than I did on my CRT, making the desire to turn vsync on much higher.
Interpolation is kind of disappointing as not only does the image look blurrier, but it seems to apply a sharpening filter to it, which increases contrast further and doesn't look good.
In short I guess I'm just a picky bastard who is used to far better on CRTs and intend to return the monitor. I find it depressing if this monitor represents one of the better LCDs out there. I'm open to any commentary on this. Again, I'll concede that my color problems stem from not having a hardware calibrator, but considering how NO change could fix the red/greens problem, I'm apt to think the calibrator won't be working miracles. For those that understand the red/green problem I'm experiencing and can recommend a monitor that does NOT have that problem, please let me know.
I think I'm kind of screwed either way. If I go with a monitor where input lag isn't a problem, it will be a TN panel in which case I'll probably still have the uneven distribution problem and poorer colors. If I go to a higher end monitor with better reds and light greens (if that's even possible), it will probably have as bad or worse input lag. I feel like I'll lose either way.