Thanks for your comments Fat Dog - you may have just swayed me!
Do it - you won't regret it.
HP LP2475w, IPS 24" Official Thread! (Now Available from OcUK)
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Do it - you won't regret it.
One side is DisplayPort, the other DVI-I
ahh cool, was looking for the SPdif socket for getting the audio from the hdmi
looked in the manual on the cd, found it now, but just looks like an RCA connector
do I need to buy an RCA > spdif cable ? is there even such a thing ?
I thought it would look like the spdif connector on my motherboard (onboard sound)
looked in the manual on the cd, found it now, but just looks like an RCA connector
do I need to buy an RCA > spdif cable ? is there even such a thing ?
I thought it would look like the spdif connector on my motherboard (onboard sound)
S/PDIF connections come in two varieties, optical (also known as TOSLINK) and coaxial (which is simply an RCA connector connected to a coaxial cable.) The coaxial cable is recommended, especially for long cable runs, but for a short run a standard RCA to RCA cable (non coaxial) will probably work fine.
The offers usually end on Wednesday, when the new offers are started.
Joe T, when is your date for delivery? I want to know whether you will have time to tell us about the monitor before the offer ends!!
Come on now gamers! I need to hear some more glowing remarks that FPS gaming will be good on this monitor. I still game on a CRT, so 25 ms of input lag sounds kind of scary. Please try some intense gaming with UT3, COD4, etc. and report your subjective impressions. I'm really anxious to pull the trigger (so to speak.) 
thankyou, makes a bit more sense now
what I want to do is have the audio from the spdif out on the monitor going in to my pc, so it plays on the pc speakers
I have a line in free, and 2 digital spdif connectors (these must be the toslink things...)
is there any way to use the digital connectors
or do I need an RCA > phono jack lead ?
I have a stereo (2 rca's) to phono jack lead that I have tried but get no sound at all ,just a buzz, I tried both rca plugs on the monitor, and the line in and the mic socket on the pc
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Come on now gamers! I need to hear some more glowing remarks that FPS gaming will be good on this monitor. I still game on a CRT, so 25 ms of input lag sounds kind of scary. Please try some intense gaming with UT3, COD4, etc. and report your subjective impressions. I'm really anxious to pull the trigger (so to speak.)
Yeah lets hear some gaming reports of fast paced gaming
The input lag figures also scare me. I also game on a CRT.
I suspect I will have to order the screen to test it myself.
All gaming comments I have read so far are not really critical enough for my taste. I need comments regarding competetive online fps gaming. Will my skills be severely reduced because of this 1,5 fps lag ?
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Come on now gamers! I need to hear some more glowing remarks that FPS gaming will be good on this monitor. I still game on a CRT, so 25 ms of input lag sounds kind of scary. Please try some intense gaming with UT3, COD4, etc. and report your subjective impressions. I'm really anxious to pull the trigger (so to speak.)
Depends how hardcore you are on fps games. If you are deadly serious then TFTs like this one will have a small noticable lag. Slightly less zippy but you get used to it. Even when I went from my old CRT to the NEC wgx2 (which is one of the fastest TFTs out there) you can still notice it, but its minimal. The HP is slower than the NEC, but not by much. I'm happy with it for ordinary gaming. CRT is still king for pro gamers.....but how many of us are pro gamers?
I tried COD4 and HL2 ep2 earlier and its fine. For less intensive games like rpgs etc you won't notice any difference really. Been playing LOTRO and The Witcher as well, looks and runs great
Bear in mind this is a Wide Gamut screen as well, so colours will be more saturated in general apps/games but can still be toned down a bit with manual tweaking of RGB etc. I bought this mostly for Photoshop and design/graphics apps I have that can utilise the extra colour range. My NEC is still sitting here on the desk. Will probably utilise it as a dual monitor setup with the HP at some point.
Does anyone here that also has the HP know if 1080p is supposed to be available when you hook up an xbox 360? Mine only seems to give me up to 1080i thru HDMI. Even tho in the blades menu it shows 1080p as an option. I've got it running thru 2nd DVI port for now (with VGA-DVI adapter).
You'll need a converter box as TOSlink is optical, whereas S/PDif RCA is electrical. You can get a converter box for around £15 if you know where to look (you find some specialist music equipment dealers in a mag like Future Music).
i was in an electrical shop earlier tonight, they sold these converter boxes
its to get the sound from my ps3, I have now discovered that I do get sound with an rca>jack plug lead (although its a stereo one, so 2 rca plugs in to one jack plug) but only in the ps3 menu, when I start a game it just makes noise, could this be happening because of the lead im using ? I looked in the shop earlier but there was no RCA>jack plug lead, only the stereo lead like what I have now
bought a 2 in to 1 adapter for the 2 rca's but that doesn't make any difference
will probably try the converter box, but its gonna be about 25 quid for the leads and box, hope it works !
its to get the sound from my ps3, I have now discovered that I do get sound with an rca>jack plug lead (although its a stereo one, so 2 rca plugs in to one jack plug) but only in the ps3 menu, when I start a game it just makes noise, could this be happening because of the lead im using ? I looked in the shop earlier but there was no RCA>jack plug lead, only the stereo lead like what I have now
bought a 2 in to 1 adapter for the 2 rca's but that doesn't make any difference
will probably try the converter box, but its gonna be about 25 quid for the leads and box, hope it works !
Just to double check, can you post the specs of your soundcard/onboard sound so that I can check what it actually is...I didn't think a jack cable would fit into a toslink port?!?
Are you sure you have a TOSLINK port on your motherboard/soundcard? They are a squarish shape with a cover that pushes in when you plug in the optical cable. I'm also a little confused at what you're trying to do. Are you trying to re-route the digital audio sent over the HDMI cable to the monitor back to your computer/soundcard for playing through your computer speakers?
Most motherboard audio inputs or soundcard audio inputs will contain an "electrical" S/PDIF jack. Toslinks also exist but are more rare. The electrical input usually isn't a standard RCA jack. Often times it is a mini 1/8" jack. So you have to connect an RCA plug to the monitor and a mini plug back at the computer. A mono mini plug is fine. Also, "Line In" is the wrong input choice at your computer. That is an analog only input and not designed for S/PDIF. Finally, once connected properly to either an electrical or optical S/PDIF jack, you may have to enable that function in the control panel for your soundcard or motherboard audio. Finally, is your speaker setup 5.1 surround? If not, the digital audio isn't really going to do much. You might as well send an analog stereo output from the PS3 to the "Line In" input of your computer.
Most motherboard audio inputs or soundcard audio inputs will contain an "electrical" S/PDIF jack. Toslinks also exist but are more rare. The electrical input usually isn't a standard RCA jack. Often times it is a mini 1/8" jack. So you have to connect an RCA plug to the monitor and a mini plug back at the computer. A mono mini plug is fine. Also, "Line In" is the wrong input choice at your computer. That is an analog only input and not designed for S/PDIF. Finally, once connected properly to either an electrical or optical S/PDIF jack, you may have to enable that function in the control panel for your soundcard or motherboard audio. Finally, is your speaker setup 5.1 surround? If not, the digital audio isn't really going to do much. You might as well send an analog stereo output from the PS3 to the "Line In" input of your computer.
motherboard is an abit ip35 pro, it's got an spdif IN and out, which is a TOSLink, if i take the cover off i can see a little light...ive not tried using that as I dont have any toslink leads
the SPDif socket on the monitor isn't a toslink though, it's just an rca plug, like what you get on camcorders etc for left and right audio, or yellow for video, same kind of plug though
I have a lead which has, at one end, the audio jack that fits in to the mic socket etc on the computer, and at the other end 2 rca plugs that go in to an amp (I use this lead to plug my pc's line out in to my amp to get sound from the pc to the amp)
I'm not bothered about 5.1.....seems strange how the sound isnt working properly just now with this lead (3.5 stereo to 2 rca it's called on other websites) I thought if anything I might just get sound from 1 speaker, but as I say the sound is never clear, and when in a game it doesn't work at all
thanks for the help btw!
the SPDif socket on the monitor isn't a toslink though, it's just an rca plug, like what you get on camcorders etc for left and right audio, or yellow for video, same kind of plug though
I have a lead which has, at one end, the audio jack that fits in to the mic socket etc on the computer, and at the other end 2 rca plugs that go in to an amp (I use this lead to plug my pc's line out in to my amp to get sound from the pc to the amp)
I'm not bothered about 5.1.....seems strange how the sound isnt working properly just now with this lead (3.5 stereo to 2 rca it's called on other websites) I thought if anything I might just get sound from 1 speaker, but as I say the sound is never clear, and when in a game it doesn't work at all
thanks for the help btw!
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Depends how hardcore you are on fps games. If you are deadly serious then TFTs like this one will have a small noticable lag. Slightly less zippy but you get used to it. Even when I went from my old CRT to the NEC wgx2 (which is one of the fastest TFTs out there) you can still notice it, but its minimal. The HP is slower than the NEC, but not by much. I'm happy with it for ordinary gaming. CRT is still king for pro gamers.....but how many of us are pro gamers?
I tried COD4 and HL2 ep2 earlier and its fine. For less intensive games like rpgs etc you won't notice any difference really. Been playing LOTRO and The Witcher as well, looks and runs great
I have also owned a couple of NEC wgx2's so if it's close to that it will be ok.
Everybody only mention single player games
Isn't anyone playing fast paced UT2004,UT3, CS, HL2DM online ? That's why it's not working and you hear crackling, you're trying to put a digital output (the S/PDif on the monitor) into an analogue in (the jack on your mobo) with no converter inbetween.
Your two options are either S/PDif RCA->TOSlink box, or a S/PDif RCA->analogue out box.