Originally posted by: Ardan
Originally posted by: xtknight
Hmm which big issues do you mean? I was actually considering recommending that soon, just don't know for sure. The Lenovo L220X is another option though I haven't seen it "in stock" for sure anywhere.
Well a friend of mine had one but returned it because of some green stripes when he used the DVI connection. He later pointed me to youtube, where a search reveals people showing videos of problems with their LP2275w screens, where the most commonplace issue is the interference on the screen (seems to be two green horizontal bands like in my friend's case). I did some looking around, and I saw that both prad and TFT Central mentioned buzzing caused by the backlight inverter that their review samples had. However, people in forums (like Hardforum) have said that HP reportedly fixed that problem. Also, he received a replacement monitor that has no interference on it.
I don't know if TFT Central did, but I saw that prad's review pointed out that they have also had people post in their forums of incidents involving troubles starting up the monitor from sleep mode. Someone has also posted a video demonstrating this on youtube, it appears. I lost the links, but a search of the model doesn't yield a large group of results, so it shouldn't be hard to find. In my search for a monitor, I also saw on newegg that it gets quite the mixed bag of reviews from people, too. However, one of them points out that his replacement screen has had zero problems, though still takes about 30 seconds to come back from sleep mode. A quick look at HP's support forums shows the multitude of people having the same problems with the blue or green lines on the monitor, like this
thread, for example.
I also was unsure about the input lag. I noticed that prad describes it as a 'constant' 50ms, but someone in hardforum's displays section and TFT Central measured the average as being 25ms. Digitalversus gets an average of 39 as well. So, I wasn't sure if prad maybe had a bad screen or what, because their number is much higher than 3 other sources. If it really is closer to the 25ms they find, or even the 39ms that digitalversus seems to get, then I would be willing to go for it because it seems to get very good reviews in every other aspect (everyone has told me that they can't find any real backlight bleed). I thought that maybe it would be safer to just go with the H-IPS screen instead because I never heard anything major about that one (other than what you listed on here). Plus, it looks like it has quite a few more connectivity options, but do you know if it does 1:1? I wasn't sure about that one, but it looks like the 2275w does it.
I am glad to hear that people aren't having those issues with replacement models, and of HP fixing the buzzing problem (reportedly). I think it would be a very good deal if that is the case. Unless the color uniformity issue you talk of is a major issue that I'd notice immediately, I'd feel more confident buying that over the LP2275w at this time, because I haven't heard of anybody listing multiple problems like the 2275w. Still, I hope they have that issue under control at this point, but I don't know anyone with it and I haven't searched extensively on that problem to figure that out for myself. Either way, if I had to return a monitor to HP, it wouldn't leave me without a screen to use so I probably would be okay either way.