robbiekhan
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I have been in London all day so not had chance to unpack the monitor until now, and OH MY GOD! it oozes quality from the all aluminium shell to the out of the box brightness and colour, it's very comfy to the eyes at the default 68b/68c but for a nice neutral feel I dropped the brightness by 10 and it's awesome.
I doubt calibration will make a huge difference like it did with the VA panels, I can tell just from looking at it alone but will do so anyway as soon as the Macbeth Eye-One arrives tomorrow.
The past few weeks I have had 3 different 24" VA based screens (Dell 2408WFP, Hyundai W241D PVA, BenQ FP241W) and all failed to impress for viewing angles and some other issues, the BenQ came out top though after calibration and in general it performed the best as well whilst the Dell was absolute pants for mouse movement lag and oversaturated default colours.
The Hazro makes me feel like I have the Dell 2007WFP again, but bigger! S-IPS forever
The Hazro has:
- No backlight bleed at all - the pic below showing the backlight, may look like there is some but that's the reflection from my blinds, darkened as best possible in the room though!
- No gradient banding
- The world famous "IPS effect" - there's a kid of twinkling effect when moving around the screen not something that affects photo editing or usage though, only visible on an all black screen.
- No input lag, well it's the same as the Dell 2007WFP so it's good
- A dust magnet! hehe
- Likely to get peoples fingers chopped off by the owner if they put another finger print on the bezel >_<
- Gets warm to the touch all over thanks to the Aluminium case transferring heat out instead of blasting it into your face through the front like the BenQ did!
Pics:
Watched some Diehard4 in HD too which was great, no issues in movies at all.
Will be playing some TF2 later on tonight to see what gaming is like but am in no rush as I know it's going to be awesome!
The screen cost me £440, they said prices go up and down weekly and the other 2 people I know paid £20~ less than what I paid a few weeks ago.
It doesn't have HDCP but that doesn't bother me as I have AnyDVD-HD should I want to play Bluray movies on the PC when BR drives are under £50.
I doubt calibration will make a huge difference like it did with the VA panels, I can tell just from looking at it alone but will do so anyway as soon as the Macbeth Eye-One arrives tomorrow.
The past few weeks I have had 3 different 24" VA based screens (Dell 2408WFP, Hyundai W241D PVA, BenQ FP241W) and all failed to impress for viewing angles and some other issues, the BenQ came out top though after calibration and in general it performed the best as well whilst the Dell was absolute pants for mouse movement lag and oversaturated default colours.
The Hazro makes me feel like I have the Dell 2007WFP again, but bigger! S-IPS forever
The Hazro has:
- No backlight bleed at all - the pic below showing the backlight, may look like there is some but that's the reflection from my blinds, darkened as best possible in the room though!
- No gradient banding
- The world famous "IPS effect" - there's a kid of twinkling effect when moving around the screen not something that affects photo editing or usage though, only visible on an all black screen.
- No input lag, well it's the same as the Dell 2007WFP so it's good
- A dust magnet! hehe
- Likely to get peoples fingers chopped off by the owner if they put another finger print on the bezel >_<
- Gets warm to the touch all over thanks to the Aluminium case transferring heat out instead of blasting it into your face through the front like the BenQ did!
Pics:
Watched some Diehard4 in HD too which was great, no issues in movies at all.
Will be playing some TF2 later on tonight to see what gaming is like but am in no rush as I know it's going to be awesome!
The screen cost me £440, they said prices go up and down weekly and the other 2 people I know paid £20~ less than what I paid a few weeks ago.
It doesn't have HDCP but that doesn't bother me as I have AnyDVD-HD should I want to play Bluray movies on the PC when BR drives are under £50.