I have today been to see and play with a just received 2407 which the lucky purchaser bought at the Dec 22 price.
Size: Big but not imposing. I imagined it would be enormous. Elegant stand and much better than a large CRT which is big and clunky in comparison. Adjustment on the stand is a very big plus compared to the CRT.
Menu: Easy to use and neat except for the brighness/contrast control which is a bit fiddly to navigate to set the slider adjusters.
Screen: Very bright, in fact too bright on initial start up. No dead or stuck pixels. Negligable variation in purity with the left very slightly brighter than the right side. So small can be ignored. At the standard resolution the text was clear and sharp however too small for me and the owner to be comfortable. Only tried it on the D-sub VGA connector in desktop mode where there was no discernable colour banding at all with colour gradient monitor test software.
Screen reflection on the shiny black bezel edges was a bit a bit irritating at first but was soon not noticed.
Photographs: Superb, amazing! From a purely subjective point of view the colours were accurate and vibrant and really brought the pictures to life. Slideshows were a revelation.
Internet: Clear and easily read. Huge advantage to not have to scroll side to side to view those windows published in high res. Low res video like U-tube we found to be worse than when viewed on the CRT though.
Games: Nvidia 7900 GTX EDGA card used. Call of duty 2, Dark messiah and Oblivion all ran at full resolution and very smooth. I am not a game player but did not notice any smeering at all. What I did see were some obvious halo type banding as though it were in 16 bit colour in some scenes in Call of Duty2. Is this the monitor or the game at fault?
Prey kept crashing with this monitor for some reason. There was no time to fully investigate.
This size monitor really brings gaming to a new level and is a must have if you are of that persuasion.
DVD Playing: Chicken Run which has a lot of contrasting and dark scenes was tried. Result............ to be honest Bloody Terriblel!! Compared to my IIyama CRT the colours were far too dark and over saturated with a very strong red cast. The picture was very grainy with what appeared to be just 16 bit colour banding and halo effects. I saw very, very little sparkling and no motion smeering at all.
This was in windows player. We ran it through Power Dvd and with some quick adjustments of saturation, brightness etc improved the picture to a watchable state. This was in both windowed and full screen modes. It was not tried with the monitor set in movie mode.
Now please remember that this is a quick first sight, hands-on impression and must not taken as a definative review. Some calibration and tweaking will no doubt improve this superb monitor. Video playback was a disapointment and I welcome any tips that I can pass on to improve that part.
Does anyone run a TV card the 2407?
A TFT panel is a different viewing experience to the good old CRT and has laid to rest some of my worries. Most of the well documented issues about this monitor were just not visible to me (fixed?) and only the DVD playback which I feel sure could be adjusted and improved stops me from calling it perfect.
Thanks Tom for allowing me to fiddle.
Would I buy it? You bet I will........when the price returns to a sensible level.
Size: Big but not imposing. I imagined it would be enormous. Elegant stand and much better than a large CRT which is big and clunky in comparison. Adjustment on the stand is a very big plus compared to the CRT.
Menu: Easy to use and neat except for the brighness/contrast control which is a bit fiddly to navigate to set the slider adjusters.
Screen: Very bright, in fact too bright on initial start up. No dead or stuck pixels. Negligable variation in purity with the left very slightly brighter than the right side. So small can be ignored. At the standard resolution the text was clear and sharp however too small for me and the owner to be comfortable. Only tried it on the D-sub VGA connector in desktop mode where there was no discernable colour banding at all with colour gradient monitor test software.
Screen reflection on the shiny black bezel edges was a bit a bit irritating at first but was soon not noticed.
Photographs: Superb, amazing! From a purely subjective point of view the colours were accurate and vibrant and really brought the pictures to life. Slideshows were a revelation.
Internet: Clear and easily read. Huge advantage to not have to scroll side to side to view those windows published in high res. Low res video like U-tube we found to be worse than when viewed on the CRT though.
Games: Nvidia 7900 GTX EDGA card used. Call of duty 2, Dark messiah and Oblivion all ran at full resolution and very smooth. I am not a game player but did not notice any smeering at all. What I did see were some obvious halo type banding as though it were in 16 bit colour in some scenes in Call of Duty2. Is this the monitor or the game at fault?
Prey kept crashing with this monitor for some reason. There was no time to fully investigate.
This size monitor really brings gaming to a new level and is a must have if you are of that persuasion.
DVD Playing: Chicken Run which has a lot of contrasting and dark scenes was tried. Result............ to be honest Bloody Terriblel!! Compared to my IIyama CRT the colours were far too dark and over saturated with a very strong red cast. The picture was very grainy with what appeared to be just 16 bit colour banding and halo effects. I saw very, very little sparkling and no motion smeering at all.
This was in windows player. We ran it through Power Dvd and with some quick adjustments of saturation, brightness etc improved the picture to a watchable state. This was in both windowed and full screen modes. It was not tried with the monitor set in movie mode.
Now please remember that this is a quick first sight, hands-on impression and must not taken as a definative review. Some calibration and tweaking will no doubt improve this superb monitor. Video playback was a disapointment and I welcome any tips that I can pass on to improve that part.
Does anyone run a TV card the 2407?
A TFT panel is a different viewing experience to the good old CRT and has laid to rest some of my worries. Most of the well documented issues about this monitor were just not visible to me (fixed?) and only the DVD playback which I feel sure could be adjusted and improved stops me from calling it perfect.
Thanks Tom for allowing me to fiddle.
Would I buy it? You bet I will........when the price returns to a sensible level.
