Hello,

 

I wish to thank everyone on the forum for providing insights on the various pros and cons regarding Dell's monitor. I've read a lot of them, often negatively flavored, but still decided to purchase the monitor based on price and overall reviews on the net (did an extensive google search, also of newer revisions).

 

But to the point, the negatives I associate with the monitor I received was:

- brighter from left to right side, but this is a lot less noticeble when lowering brightness to 30 (I understand this brightness issue might be related to limitations of production and technology...).

- had a few bad pixels, but no clustering of these

- horizontal lines in the lower end of the monitor, easily solved by lowering sharpness

- not entirely horizontal, but this was adjustable

- when output via vga from xbox 360 image is stretched when running 1920x1200 compared to "native" 1080p.

 

 Of positive notes:

- VGA and DVI worked perfectly, I dont care about component (havent even tried it). DVI is for PC, VGa for XBOX 360. 

- I didn't notice the horizontal lines on the monitor, when sharpness was set to 50, unless I focused on this. I consider this more than acceptable to live with.

- I consider the image stretching to be very minor, 120 pixels, and dont necessarily prefer 1:1 reproduction to a larger image (IF the stretching is "minor")...

- AND MOST IMPORTANTLY (to me): The shaprness, color reproduction, screen size, adjustability/stability of foot, number of inputs and the comprehensive menu + fast switching button between signals, more than make up for the shortcomings listed above. I love it when I play games and I also love it when working on documents at home (I work as a researcher at the Univiersity of Stavanger, so I have some experience with word editing). Text reproduction is spot on, coupled with pretty solid white levels and good contrast to my subjective eye at least, since I have not done any objective measurements or benchmarkings as of yet. Dark is not entirely dark, but dark enough. At least compared to my old Benq 937+ monitor. But I think this goes as a general note, and not as a criticism of the Dell monitor; lcd monitors, and also television sets, obviously have a way to go until they reach CRT levels of contrast and also perhaps color reproduction.

 

Only regret I have, I wish this monitor was present at my office now when I do the time consuming and utterly boring transcription of interviews. 19" just aint an option anymore. I might just have to suggest a new investment here at the faculty, at the next budget meeting :p

 

I hope this review was objective enough. This was the least I could do to credit the forum and users here, including you Chris.

 

Sincerly,

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