HP 'new' ZR24w

ashmanq · 18 Feb 2010 at 06:18

Ah I can semi live with a Feb march release date

rIcK · 25 Feb 2010 at 01:04

Any fresh news then ?

ashmanq · 25 Feb 2010 at 06:38

Well I e-mailed ocuk asking when they would have some of these in stock and the reply I got was March/April time.

fulcrumer · 25 Feb 2010 at 11:54

I see OCUK have 10+ of the old model in stock suddenly - for EoL - expensive - decisions decisions.

ashmanq · 25 Feb 2010 at 16:51

fulcrumer said:
I see OCUK have 10+ of the old model in stock suddenly - for EoL - expensive - decisions decisions.

Where is it said that HP are discontinouing the lp2475w? Has this been stated by HP themselves?

* EDIT *

I contacted OCUK and they said that HP do plan to discontinue the model but they dont know when.

This is driving me nuts! on Product Wiki its saying the zr24r will be coming out in April......April?!?!? I dont know if I can wait till then. Im seriously contemplating getting the LP2475W or Dell U2410 but am worried about the tinting issues.......this sucks

dustofnations · 28 Feb 2010 at 01:14

Hah looks like my earlier slip in typing April as the touted release month instead of March has turned out to be correct, unfortunately...

I've been procrastinating on getting a monitor for ages, not particularly keen on being in the "beta testing" round when this monitor is released either (cynical, but often true).

mcrustk2 · 12 Mar 2010 at 13:47

Any new updates on this screen im still waiting to get 3 (should it be any good)

Sylver123 · 12 Mar 2010 at 15:49

I`m also waiting on any new news on what this screen is gonna be like for gaming.

Right now i`m sitting still with a old 22" CRT Monitor with the setup in my sig and i`m planning on building a new system in the next 3-4 months and so, i`ll be looking for a high quality 24" Widescreen LED Monitor pacifically for gaming, watching HD/Blu-Ray films on it and general usage but at the moment I just haven`t got a clue.

dustofnations · 19 Mar 2010 at 01:06

ZR24w User Manual (and ZR22w) was spotted by one of the chaps over at HardOCP:
http://bizsupport2.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c02049456/c02049456.pdf

nippynoo · 19 Mar 2010 at 08:17

100W seems high, so no LED backlight, which is a shame as the case seems quite thick to allow forthe air flow.. I wonder why they didnt choose LED? Is there a reason some manufacturers are sticking wth fluorescent tubes (or whatever they use)

PCM2 · 19 Mar 2010 at 08:46

They're cheaper and not all manufacturers have invested in LED backlighting or have the expertise to properly implement it. In the case of this monitor; it may have been in development for some time.

dustofnations · 19 Mar 2010 at 12:33

Most IPS panels still aren't using LED back/sidelighting. On your other point, 100w is rather high indeed, but good monitors often chew a fair bit of power.

edit: listed for €385 on a Dutch website, so we're looking at £350 if we're lucky.

dustofnations · 20 Mar 2010 at 13:07

Found some documents claiming the panel is S-IPS, doesn't seem to be much more mention of the new "H2-IPS" technology. Perhaps its a rather minor thing..

http://www.hp.com/united-states/personal_again/datasheets/z200_ds.pdf?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

mcrustk2 · 20 Mar 2010 at 22:38

A few EU listed prices guys!

385 € thats not bad! about £350. So I could just about get 3.

Usually we can get exchange rate eq of EU prices (unlike US) so heres hoping.

Sources (via): http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1035481257

413x · 21 Mar 2010 at 01:40

im still torn between getting one of these or a second u2410

i am really happy with my first u2410, they are approximately the same price then?

toughy!

edt, is the 24 model the one with the silver strips at the top :/ if so i expect ill go for another u2410

ZimmerX · 22 Mar 2010 at 12:52

This looks like a promising monitor, only thing that I dislike about it is that it has no HDMI, therefore I wouldn't purchase it.

Also, about the comments on discontinuing the LP2475W... That's not going to happen for a long time - friend works at HP and he asked around and they JUST manufactured a brand new batch of them (there's stock in the UK, if you had checked the HP site 1 week ago, you would have seen you couldn't purchase it off them directly, now you can)... So I don't see that model disappearing any time soon. I'd rather pay an extra £50 and get a monitor with more connections and a higher end IPS panel than sacrifice that for a slightly faster response time and sRGB as default.

dustofnations · 23 Mar 2010 at 19:49

ZimmerX said:
This looks like a promising monitor, only thing that I dislike about it is that it has no HDMI, therefore I wouldn't purchase it.

Also, about the comments on discontinuing the LP2475W... That's not going to happen for a long time - friend works at HP and he asked around and they JUST manufactured a brand new batch of them (there's stock in the UK, if you had checked the HP site 1 week ago, you would have seen you couldn't purchase it off them directly, now you can)... So I don't see that model disappearing any time soon. I'd rather pay an extra £50 and get a monitor with more connections and a higher end IPS panel than sacrifice that for a slightly faster response time and sRGB as default.

It does have the great benefit of not having to deal with the hassles of wide colour gamut, especially for those who aren't doing professional photography but want better general image quality/colours within the normal sRGB range

Also what is the worry about HDMI, for visual stuff HDMI == DVI

dustofnations · 24 Mar 2010 at 13:16

Some UK prices are listed, £300 looks to be the mark, rather encouraging if true.

Bint Box · 24 Mar 2010 at 14:17

dustofnations said:
Some UK prices are listed, £300 looks to be the mark, rather encouraging if true.

Is this now available in the UK ?

Thx
Binty

Legend · 24 Mar 2010 at 15:25

Not just yet. Soon though. April perhaps.

Is this definitely an IPS panel??