Hazro 24" S-IPS, micro review + chat

Good news Gibbo, sounds a good deal for both parties, hopefully it can be good for the 3rd party, i.e. us - the consumer ;)

If the price for the 24" is competitive, i'll be snapping one up quick-smart!!
 
Kendo Nagasaki said:
Taking all the issues aside, is the picture quality and general use top notch?
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Indeed :) The panel itself is absolutely spot on, no issues whatsoever, no text fringing, no weird colours, no weird shades at angles etc, it's what you'd expect from a good CRT in many ways except of course it's not a CRT :p

The BenQ FP241W in many ways is equally similar except take off a few notches for the viewing angle shading as it's a MVA panel versus an IPS one.
 
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Care to tell us how much by? That sounds suspicously like "We're going to charge you more than you've all been paying for them". :(
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Hi there

Well still battling to get the 24" down in price! As you will see from reading the comments in this thread and the other Hazro thread is that they started to increase the pricing on the 24" over a week ago and as such they are trying to hit us with this higher pricing. Were trying to get the price lower so we can sell it at a lower price point.

The 30" however will be the lowest price 30" available on the OcUK website making it a great buy. :)
 
a 30" IPS with HDMI and component input, a defo DELL 3008WFP competition ?

Come on any hints on price OCUK would have roughly for it ? :p
 
mrk said:
a 30" IPS with HDMI and component input, a defo DELL 3008WFP competition ?

Come on any hints on price OCUK would have roughly for it ? :p
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seen your pics of the hazro mrk, great looking monitor, can i ask is the entire screen including bezel aluminium and how would you compare it to the benqfp241w, forgetting your backlight bleed problem you had with yours. thanks in advance.
 
If you take away the BenQ baclight bleed that I had (ordered a new one and is coming today) then I'd say for colour accuracy they are virtually no different than one another, the Hazro does't show as much detail in some dark areas of movies for example but it's not easily visible (the difference) and it is able to show all the colour shades in a colour chart as the BenQ was.

The build quality the Hazro wins, there are no creaking parts or plastic areas on the casing, it's all aluminium!
 
I can answer the bit about the casing, the entire thing is Aluminium. I've got the silver model which after also seeing the black "in the flesh" I'm pleased I went with. The back panel is a different colour Aluminium (almost like a very dark burgundy), but once again, all metal. The stand is the same colour as the front bezel and, unsurprisingly, is metal. The only plastic parts on the monitor are the carrying handle and the OSD controls that drop down from the center of the front panel. Some may not like the touch sensitive buttons, but you're in the OSD so infrequently it hasn't really bothered me much.

I've also seen inside the thing (when a Hazro sales guy/tech came out to swap the logic board) and the insides look of high quality, well laid out, nothing that could come loose from moving it about etc. From using it, it's cooler (temperature and looks wise!) to sit in front of than the Dell 2408 as the whole thing is essentially a heat sink; less seems to get vented through the front of the panel.

Some people may not like the "line lump" power supply, but I actually prefer power supplies being outside the monitor, keeps it cooler and if it dies it's much easier to get them to send out a new one than to send the whole monitor back for repair. Once the Vista issue is sorted (and HDCP added for those that require it) this really will be the killer monitor in this size and price-range - as long as it doesn't shoot up massively in cost; I'm still feeling fortunate that I got it at what's apparently one of the lowest prices they've ever sold it at!

Oh, and for those that like to support British manufacturing, whilst the parts may all be sourced from overseas (Korea mostly and then Taiwan for the logic board), final construction apparently happens in the U.K.
 
Can someone who understands dE values tell me if this is good? I just found a dE measurement logger in Eye-One Match3 which seems ace for tracking monitor calibration trends!

As far as I understand the lower the dE value the better ?

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(this is after calibration)

BTW Hazro have emailed me today and left a voicemail stating they should know Wednesday what the process will be if it's firmware upgrade or monitor swapout for those of us with Vista issues. I am keeping the Hazro as I just cannot get over how nicely built it is and the quality of the IPS panel :)

Will eagerly await Hazro's fix for Vista and also the overdrive bug!
 
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It's also a bonus because if they do stop making the 24" as the other thread suggests due to the costs of manufacture then they will be very sought after screens and quite rare!
 
I was thinking about upgrading my current screen and this looks perfect. Can't decide whether to get the 23" or the 24" though. Anyone know what the dot pitch values are?

My current screen (NEC LCD2070NX 20", S-IPS I believe) has been fantastic but is getting on a bit now and I'd love to move to widescreen. I'm going to hold out for the HDCP model though. Does anyone else manufacture consumer S-IPS displays, just for comparisons?

Thanks.
 
I assume the 24" would be better as the panel used in the 23" version uses an older IPS panel (similar to the Apple 23").

The panel reference for the Hazro 24" is 'LM240WU2' - if you enter this ref in the panel search at tftcentral you'll see that its similar to the one thats used in the highly regarded NEC2490.

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The panel reference would also suggest that the NTSC Colour Gamut is 72% and not 92% as has been suggested eleswhere.

*I think we need Baddass to confirm all this though :)*
 
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Apple do but they cost a bomb! only Hazro do an affordable S-IPS 24" though.

Doublesight and Planar (sp?) do 26" S-IPS screens but only in the USA.
 
Thanks guys. Hazro 24" it is then! Judging by the posts in this thread their customer service sounds really good.
 
mrk: that dE value is outstanding, anything under 1 is considered pretty much flawless (no human would ever be able to tell the difference).

Nice to know I'm not the only person who's so taken with the thing they don't mind waiting around for a fix to materialise :p
 
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