Hazro - Any Update?
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The 30"-ers are back in stock 
Very tempted to grab one of these, even though £700 is probably more than I should be spending right now. Anyone want to persuade me either way?
Also, I was wondering, what is Hazro's policy on dead pixels? For a monitor like this I'd prefer to have no dead pixels, but OcUK doesn't have a dead-pixel check service.
Very tempted to grab one of these, even though £700 is probably more than I should be spending right now. Anyone want to persuade me either way?
Also, I was wondering, what is Hazro's policy on dead pixels? For a monitor like this I'd prefer to have no dead pixels, but OcUK doesn't have a dead-pixel check service.
The 30"-ers are back in stock
Very tempted to grab one of these, even though £700 is probably more than I should be spending right now. Anyone want to persuade me either way?
Also, I was wondering, what is Hazro's policy on dead pixels? For a monitor like this I'd prefer to have no dead pixels, but OcUK doesn't have a dead-pixel check service.
Standard ISO dead pixel policy, so a 24" can have around 6 or 7 before being accepted as faulty.
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Thanks. I guess I'll just have to cross my fingers
One more quick question; OcUK quotes the monitor as having a 6ms grey to grey response time, with 12ms black to black, whereas TFT central quotes a 12ms grey to grey response. Does anyone know which of these is correct? Related to this, how badly is the degree of tearing affected by response time, when running games with vsync off?
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Yeah, the 24" black model has been delisted. You can't buy that anywhere anymore. There are still a few silver models left though.
Hazro are holding back stock until they can resolve the firmware problems, no doubt. You could do far worse than buy a couple of LP2475W's instead. Damn solid monitor, in my opinion; just be sure to read into the colour uniformity issues beforehand. It's all a bit of a gamble with the current batch.
Hazro are holding back stock until they can resolve the firmware problems, no doubt. You could do far worse than buy a couple of LP2475W's instead. Damn solid monitor, in my opinion; just be sure to read into the colour uniformity issues beforehand. It's all a bit of a gamble with the current batch.
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hmm, mighty tempted by a 26" as a post-Christmas prezzie to myself.... especially as it isnt that much more than the 24"....
Looking to finally move on from my WGX2
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Looking to finally move on from my WGX2
I make a lot of use of screen space atm, trainee teacher so i do a lot of powerpoint/word/pdf type stuff. And i like to game if i ever have any spare time!
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Whats the main differences between 26" and 24" hazros, is the 24" better?
Hi, Duff-Man
Is it possible you could test some standard DVD and HD/Blu-Ray filims on your HZ30W, and let me know how they look, if you can? It's just that TFT central states that you may have problems with watching films on it due to its Massive 2560 x 1600 resolution, see below
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TFT central Hazro HZ30W Review
Main differences are the 26 has Wide gamut, Additional polariser.
The 24" has a glossy panel (like NEC 20WGX2) - Some people think glossy panels add some depth to colour and picture, others don't like the reflections behind strong light sources!
Apart from that they are both largely the same.
Hi, Duff-Man
Is it possible you could test some standard DVD and HD/Blu-Ray filims on your HZ30W, and let me know how they look, if you can? It's just that TFT central states that you may have problems with watching films on it due to its Massive 2560 x 1600 resolution, see below
Thank You!
Certainly will do
I'm not sure, but from that description I think it's just a warning that viewing relatively low-res video on an ultra high-res screen will accentuate the difference. I doubt that a standard-def DVD viewed on an ultra high-res 30" screen would look any worse than the same DVD on a 30" 1080p screen when viewed from the same distance. I'll definitely check it out for you though!
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Thanks MRK. I have worked with Wide Gamut on the 2408, I must say a little thrown off but can work with it, as long as I have the right software. Its probably the future, but it is a little annoying to see such strong windows gui colours.
But what does the polariser do? Do these features make the 26" a better monitor? What known problems with the 26"?
Sorry for all the Q's, if you can point me in the right direction would help. Thanks
Well, it turns out that I'm not getting my monitor today (HZ30W). In fact, overclockers cannot tell me when I will recieve it. I just rang them, and they told me that they do not have any stock for the HZ30W, and that they have no idea when they will recieve stock
I'm pretty irritated by this. The monitor has been out of stock for weeks, then showed up as '10+ in stock' on Wednesday. Apparently this was "a mistake" as they have not had any stock for months
It's a bit annoying that ocuk have effectively taken £700 from me for a non-existent product! I'll be cancelling the order sharpish, and I'll probably order a different screen. Poor service, ocuk. Not what I expected.
I'm pretty irritated by this. The monitor has been out of stock for weeks, then showed up as '10+ in stock' on Wednesday. Apparently this was "a mistake" as they have not had any stock for months
It's a bit annoying that ocuk have effectively taken £700 from me for a non-existent product! I'll be cancelling the order sharpish, and I'll probably order a different screen. Poor service, ocuk. Not what I expected.Has anyone heard from Hazro yet? I'm still waiting to get my 26Wi screen off for the firmware upgrade but nothing from them for the past 2 weeks and I sent 2 web notes. I don't see how some people get phone calls from engineers and others don't get anything! I don't want to arrange a date for pickup without knowing when I'll be getting it back! I suppose I just want reassurance that they are still in business!
edit - ignore this post. I was being stupid. Driver-level scaling is available via the nvidia control panel, clear as day. So no problem.
I just read a comment somewhere that the Hazro monitors can only display their native resolution (or integer reductions in the number of pixels in each direction), due to the lack of an internal scalar chip. Now, I know that they don't have 1:1 pixel mapping and other advanced features, but surely they must be capable of handling resolutions other than the native?
If I set a 1920*1200 resolution in a game, surely I can still display that on the 30" Hazro somehow? Doesn't the GPU do the upscaling? I'm a little confused... It would be impractical to require 2560*1600 resolution for all games.
I just read a comment somewhere that the Hazro monitors can only display their native resolution (or integer reductions in the number of pixels in each direction), due to the lack of an internal scalar chip. Now, I know that they don't have 1:1 pixel mapping and other advanced features, but surely they must be capable of handling resolutions other than the native?
If I set a 1920*1200 resolution in a game, surely I can still display that on the 30" Hazro somehow? Doesn't the GPU do the upscaling? I'm a little confused... It would be impractical to require 2560*1600 resolution for all games.
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