I don’t have both, I had both!
I don’t have any more pics of the HP + Hazro together, I kind of disowned them when the HP got returned! The easiest way to describe the difference side by side though is that since the HP is wide gamut it will display sRGB colours outside of the RGB range since it’s spreading everything into the wide gamut.
I found even in sRGB mode it still was displaying wide gamut colours and in colour managed apps like Firefox 3 (enabled in A:C) and Photoshop that sRGB colours appeared inaccurate and muted whilst in non colour managed apps they looked fine until you compared the same image in the same app on the Hazro and you could see there were very slight differences in shades of colours but you’d only be able to tell side by side. Many people have said they’ve not noticed any difference. You’d need to cycle between the modes to see them and enabling and disabling colour managed mode in firefox is a good way especially on this forum because the blue shade is duller after calibration in colour managed mode whilst in normal mode in firefox the forum’s blue tone is more vibrant by a small amount than the sRGB output on the hazro.
This was the reason I chose to return it and stick with sRGB because I needed colours to be consistent and accurate in all applications all the time, not just those that are colour managed. It would also mean all my photographs would need to be converted to AdobeRGB or sRGB depending on where they were to be uploaded or displayed.
sRGB just works and is print accurate and I used everywhere. Once manufacturer only do wide gamut displays then I’ll look into them again but not until then.
I will say one thing though I really liked the HP case design and button layout, it was very classy looking, not in the bling manner but in a stealthy, military manner like how slick the Lambo Reventon looks – kind of like that but in Monitor form
I don’t want to put people off the HP because it’s a great screen but for the constant usage a monitor gets from me in a calibrated environment I just could not spend time converting between colour profiles all the time for web use and local use.
Movies and games had no such issues that I could easily spot though which is good news.
Now if only the stand looked like the casing…!
I don’t have any more pics of the HP + Hazro together, I kind of disowned them when the HP got returned! The easiest way to describe the difference side by side though is that since the HP is wide gamut it will display sRGB colours outside of the RGB range since it’s spreading everything into the wide gamut.
I found even in sRGB mode it still was displaying wide gamut colours and in colour managed apps like Firefox 3 (enabled in A:C) and Photoshop that sRGB colours appeared inaccurate and muted whilst in non colour managed apps they looked fine until you compared the same image in the same app on the Hazro and you could see there were very slight differences in shades of colours but you’d only be able to tell side by side. Many people have said they’ve not noticed any difference. You’d need to cycle between the modes to see them and enabling and disabling colour managed mode in firefox is a good way especially on this forum because the blue shade is duller after calibration in colour managed mode whilst in normal mode in firefox the forum’s blue tone is more vibrant by a small amount than the sRGB output on the hazro.
This was the reason I chose to return it and stick with sRGB because I needed colours to be consistent and accurate in all applications all the time, not just those that are colour managed. It would also mean all my photographs would need to be converted to AdobeRGB or sRGB depending on where they were to be uploaded or displayed.
sRGB just works and is print accurate and I used everywhere. Once manufacturer only do wide gamut displays then I’ll look into them again but not until then.
I will say one thing though I really liked the HP case design and button layout, it was very classy looking, not in the bling manner but in a stealthy, military manner like how slick the Lambo Reventon looks – kind of like that but in Monitor form
I don’t want to put people off the HP because it’s a great screen but for the constant usage a monitor gets from me in a calibrated environment I just could not spend time converting between colour profiles all the time for web use and local use.
Movies and games had no such issues that I could easily spot though which is good news.
Now if only the stand looked like the casing…!
