Picked up a PX2370 at BB on Saturday. Wasn't displaying the best color range at the store, but the LED and Samsung brand sold me (also hoping this is an XL2370 replacement).
I was also looking at the HP zr24w, which we are just getting in at the office.
Coming from a Samsung 172x, which is still in fine condition, just small at 17".
Pros of the HP zr24w:
S-IPS, which means excellent color and view angles. Amazing uniformity. There was a slight blackbleed near the bottom right corner. Ghosting is minimal, but no worse than my 12ms Samsung 172x. Contrast testing doesn't seem all that overwhelming but when loading TF2, the white lettering really pops! More so than the PX2370, which has some amazing contrast. I believe the zr24w is better because it is truly rendering 8-bit colors. Screen is rotatable.
Cons of the HP zr24w:
Brightness is sufficent, but only at 80/100 brightness and 95/100 contrast. Knowing how non-LED backlighting fades overtime, this was a concern. Pricing is much higher than the PX2370 ($425 vs $309...there an additional $27 shipping for the HP in my case as well). Ghosting was much more apparent than the PX2370. Some people might not like the anti-glare coating which appear as a sheen when viewing off-center. Not a problem for me.
Pros of the PX2370:
LED, this thing is bright! I'm running it at 56/100 brightness and 54/100 contrast. I don't believe LEDs fade overtime like non-LED screens do. Happy with the colors but does take a lot of fussing. Blues appear too dark and lean toward purple, and I can't seem to fix this, but they aren't distracting to me. Pricing is good for a LED screen, though there are cheaper ones. When playing games they seems to pop out at you. Not sure why yet, but something about the brightness of the screen grabs you. I can only best describe it as feeling like you can reach into the game world. The zr24w didn't have this feeling. The PX2370 housing is a beautiful! Very good menu options and laid out well. Resfresh rate is excellent. Amazing difference between the zr24w (5ms gtg) and this (2ms gtg). Wouldn't have believed it without experiencing it. It was so fast on the PX2370 that at first it felt like the screen was "choppy". I was used to thing blurring/ghosting a bit on the 172x so it felt smoother. Now the PX2370 feels "right".
Cons of the PX2370:
TN screen, which has terrible vertical off-center viewing.
This will sound contradictory, but everyone who first sees the screen finds the colors lacking punch. However, all testing I could do showed the colors are excellent and I believe that the brightness of the screen overwhelms the colors and makes them feel lackluster. However, after going between the 172x, zr24w and the PX2370, I honestly believe the PX2370 is very good in color reproduction. Until someone truly tests this with electronic calibration tools I won't truly know. Small negative...this thing is a dust magnet. The glass like housing shows the dust well. Menu buttons are difficult to use. Blackbleed all over. Non-uniformed backlighting. If this bugs you, it is serious. It doesn't bother me, which actually surpises me.
Other points:
The screens are the same size in width. The difference between 24" and 23" is the vertical, which allows the HP to be a 1920x1200 vs. the 1920x1080 for the Samsung. I was a true believer in 16:10 being the better route to go because of the larger number of pixels. However, for gaming the 16:9 feels much more movie-like. It does a better job of immersion. Yes, this doesn't make sense, but it is true subjectively to both me and my wife. I felt like I was there inside TF2, and in LOTRO you feel wrapped by the visuals. The zr24w was excellent but you always felt the game was on a screen in front of you, just a big screen. Part of this might be how the images seemed to pop out at you on the PX2370, but I think it has something to do with the screen feeling wider than it is due to the shorter height.
I haven't made a final decision to be honest (have 14 days to decide with BB return policy), but am heavily leaning toward the PX2370 for home use, which is mainly for gaming. I would HIGHLY recommend the zr24w for office work and photoshop, with the small problem of the right corner backbleed.
After running the PX2370 for a day I was ready to return it. However, after playing for more than an hour on the zr24w, and going back to the PX2370 (driving between home and offic and back), I'm very much sold on the PX2370 for home use, but would take the zr24w for the office over the PX2370 in a heartbeat!
Ran both monitors on DVI, but not side by side.
I was also looking at the HP zr24w, which we are just getting in at the office.
Coming from a Samsung 172x, which is still in fine condition, just small at 17".
Pros of the HP zr24w:
S-IPS, which means excellent color and view angles. Amazing uniformity. There was a slight blackbleed near the bottom right corner. Ghosting is minimal, but no worse than my 12ms Samsung 172x. Contrast testing doesn't seem all that overwhelming but when loading TF2, the white lettering really pops! More so than the PX2370, which has some amazing contrast. I believe the zr24w is better because it is truly rendering 8-bit colors. Screen is rotatable.
Cons of the HP zr24w:
Brightness is sufficent, but only at 80/100 brightness and 95/100 contrast. Knowing how non-LED backlighting fades overtime, this was a concern. Pricing is much higher than the PX2370 ($425 vs $309...there an additional $27 shipping for the HP in my case as well). Ghosting was much more apparent than the PX2370. Some people might not like the anti-glare coating which appear as a sheen when viewing off-center. Not a problem for me.
Pros of the PX2370:
LED, this thing is bright! I'm running it at 56/100 brightness and 54/100 contrast. I don't believe LEDs fade overtime like non-LED screens do. Happy with the colors but does take a lot of fussing. Blues appear too dark and lean toward purple, and I can't seem to fix this, but they aren't distracting to me. Pricing is good for a LED screen, though there are cheaper ones. When playing games they seems to pop out at you. Not sure why yet, but something about the brightness of the screen grabs you. I can only best describe it as feeling like you can reach into the game world. The zr24w didn't have this feeling. The PX2370 housing is a beautiful! Very good menu options and laid out well. Resfresh rate is excellent. Amazing difference between the zr24w (5ms gtg) and this (2ms gtg). Wouldn't have believed it without experiencing it. It was so fast on the PX2370 that at first it felt like the screen was "choppy". I was used to thing blurring/ghosting a bit on the 172x so it felt smoother. Now the PX2370 feels "right".
Cons of the PX2370:
TN screen, which has terrible vertical off-center viewing.
This will sound contradictory, but everyone who first sees the screen finds the colors lacking punch. However, all testing I could do showed the colors are excellent and I believe that the brightness of the screen overwhelms the colors and makes them feel lackluster. However, after going between the 172x, zr24w and the PX2370, I honestly believe the PX2370 is very good in color reproduction. Until someone truly tests this with electronic calibration tools I won't truly know. Small negative...this thing is a dust magnet. The glass like housing shows the dust well. Menu buttons are difficult to use. Blackbleed all over. Non-uniformed backlighting. If this bugs you, it is serious. It doesn't bother me, which actually surpises me.
Other points:
The screens are the same size in width. The difference between 24" and 23" is the vertical, which allows the HP to be a 1920x1200 vs. the 1920x1080 for the Samsung. I was a true believer in 16:10 being the better route to go because of the larger number of pixels. However, for gaming the 16:9 feels much more movie-like. It does a better job of immersion. Yes, this doesn't make sense, but it is true subjectively to both me and my wife. I felt like I was there inside TF2, and in LOTRO you feel wrapped by the visuals. The zr24w was excellent but you always felt the game was on a screen in front of you, just a big screen. Part of this might be how the images seemed to pop out at you on the PX2370, but I think it has something to do with the screen feeling wider than it is due to the shorter height.
I haven't made a final decision to be honest (have 14 days to decide with BB return policy), but am heavily leaning toward the PX2370 for home use, which is mainly for gaming. I would HIGHLY recommend the zr24w for office work and photoshop, with the small problem of the right corner backbleed.
After running the PX2370 for a day I was ready to return it. However, after playing for more than an hour on the zr24w, and going back to the PX2370 (driving between home and offic and back), I'm very much sold on the PX2370 for home use, but would take the zr24w for the office over the PX2370 in a heartbeat!
Ran both monitors on DVI, but not side by side.