HP LP2475w, IPS 24" Official Thread! (Now Available from OcUK)

TheInVisibleGoD said:
Thank you philjohn for the answer... ;)

Actually I didn't used that "secret cleartype settings" from HardForum, I think I'll replace it as soon as I have the right to do so, as dead pixel concern! Can I do a replacement at any time, or do I have a days limit to do it?

I've made a search to the the link you refer about the HP policy, but I didn't found it... are you sure it was in this thread?

Thanks once more time m8! ;)
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Any one more info about the "secret cleartype settings"? My text looks fine after a bit of tinkering.
 
If you mean the "ecat ClearType Utility" then I may know someone who can help you ;) If not then feel free to ignore the following, also please post a link to these "secret settings".

ClearType uses a trick of vision to try to smooth out the somewhat 'dotty' appearance of text as it sometimes appears on LCD's, similar to anti-aliasing the jaggies in games. In a game anti-aliasing my use a darker shade of the dominant colour to smooth the edge. As I understand it with text every pixel counts so ClearType drives the nearest sub pixel to a predetermined colour. As the eye is more sensitive to shade than colour this should give the impression of a smoothed edge, the actual colour being ignored.

For whatever reason, wide gamut, pixel pitch, sub-pixel allocation or individuals sensitivities, some found cleartype was making text look blurred on this monitor. Finding the MS config tools unsatisfactory and in an attempt to simplify experimentation I wrote this little utility to allow direct and interactive control of the cleartype settings. It also allows the main parameter, ClearType Contrast, to be varied outside of the limits supported by MS software.

The program does what it says on the can and some report success. As for me, I guess I'm one of the sensitive people. I have cleartype turned off both at home and on the monitors, various type and makes, I use at work.

The program is supplied as is, to my knowledge it has hosed anyone's PC.
 
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My HP LP2475w arrived today. I must say i am impressed with it. I have owned 2 BenQ FP241W over the past few years.

The colours are far more depthly and vibrant than the BenQ (i dont even need nvidia digital vibrance anymore). There is also more colour concistancy. Build quality and feel is better too. Not to mention the bottons are accessible.

Will take a few days to get used to my new monitor. I just set my colours to RGB 250,255,255 and its balanced enough for me. Also gaming feels less ghosty, even though its also a 6ms monitor.

So far no pixels issues, but i dont want to jinx it :)
 
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Ergotron arm

I corresponded with a guy at Ergotron, Paul Isaacson, and asked about the 45-174-300 which is available at Amazon in the US for $63. He found out that the screen itself weighs 14 pounds and thought that arm would work. It's rated for 18 pounds and so actually does, though you have to futz with it to get it tight enough to hold the screen in place and still be able to tweak its
position. I'm fairly pleased with it.

The HP itself is beautiful. Thanks to everyone contributing to this thread, it's been another Internet high point for me.
 
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WesleyBurns said:
My HP LP2475w arrived today. I must say i am impressed with it. I have owned 2 BenQ FP241W over the past few years.

The colours are far more depthly and vibrant than the BenQ (i dont even need nvidia digital vibrance anymore). There is also more colour concistancy. Build quality and feel is better too. Not to mention the bottons are accessible.

Will take a few days to get used to my new monitor. I just set my colours to RGB 250,255,255 and its balanced enough for me. Also gaming feels less ghosty, even though its also a 6ms monitor.

So far no pixels issues, but i dont want to jinx it :)
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To give you some idea how far off those settings might be my calibrated rgb are 240, 226, 255...
 
I've used a spyder2express now to calibrate my using an icm profile. Its even beter now. I guess no 2 panels will be 100% the same in final cal values. Still a superb monitor. Even my old Benq had lousy yellowish colours at 6500k.

Fat Dog - What calibration tool/software do you use to get out an RGB value instead of using an icm profile? I would rather set my monitor than have an icm profile.
 
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Haha. Looks like you took the opposite route to me, WesleyBurns. I sent two HP LP2475W's back, and picked up a BenQ FP241W. I'm very happy with it, but I do miss some aspects of the HP. Namely:

-Responsive IPS panel
-Amazing black depth
-Richness of colour
-The responsive and versatile OSD
-Accessible buttons

I'm still perfectly satisfied with the BenQ (which is now out of stock everywhere), given the amount I paid. I wasn't a terribly big fan of the HP's wide gamut, and also lacked the extra money for a colorimeter, but I may end up buying it back again in a few years, perhaps after a few reductions. It was a great piece of electronic engineering.
 
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This whole pink thing, my monitor seems to be white on the left and pinkish on the right on a fully white window. It seems to have gotten this way after a bit of use, im at 17 hours back light. Is this ment to go after a while? I've been trying to decipher this thread to see what is what. If this doesnt go away, who has sent theres back? Hope it goes away cos i quiet liked this monitor.
 
Some say yes, some say no. For philjohn, it has reportedly diminished over time. The LP Displays people said similar. Nomadd had no problems at all.

For me, I put roughly 120 hours of use into it, and even tried "burning" it in with a clear white screen for 8 hours. No result. I had the green to the left, and red to the right, which became especially apparant on side-by-side Word documents, and the grey sidebars on the BBC News webpage. The replacement I ordered suffered from a variation of these same same symptoms, so I decided to quite while I still qualified for a direct return to the reseller, and applied for a refund.
 
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WesleyBurns said:
I've used a spyder2express now to calibrate my using an icm profile. Its even beter now. I guess no 2 panels will be 100% the same in final cal values. Still a superb monitor. Even my old Benq had lousy yellowish colours at 6500k.

Fat Dog - What calibration tool/software do you use to get out an RGB value instead of using an icm profile? I would rather set my monitor than have an icm profile.
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Eye One display 2. When you run the software it gets you to manually adjust the rgb monitor settings to as close as possible to ideal, THEN fine tunes via an icm profile. Those settings are as close as I can get to 6500k manually on my panel.
 
WesleyBurns said:
Thanks cataferal, ill try run it for a few days, but if the colour shift doesnt go, then im not happy, its £450. OCUK's returns i think is 7 days from purchase, so i dont have too much time.
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Don't worry too much about return policies as HP business support (which this monitor falls under) are very good and will keep swapping out panels till you have no more defect.
 
Hi philjohn, i ended sending it back it under DSR and waiting for a refund. I've had too many problems with LCD's in general in the past. I'll hold off for now and purhaps go to 30" in the new year with the new cards.
 
Bad luck. I know how it feels; this LCD business is far more frustrating than it should be. You can't necessarily always trust the professional reviews either; the only way to be absolutely sure a monitor is suitable for your use is to work with it for a few days.

We were spoilt on CRT :P
 
Tell me about it, i was telling someone this just the other day about CRT's.

Re reviews, TFTCentral gave a good one. The proper but impossible way is to preview some monitors, and then preview the one your about to purchase then its a done deal.

LCDs are subject to personal taste and preference, i myself cant get used to uber colours bursting out at me.
 
Would it be fair to say this colour tinting issue is inherent in every HP unit, with most people being unable to detect it? I have a 2 high-end CRTs on deaths door with pinkish tones to the sides, which was enough to put them into storage. No-one I showed them to were able to see the problem. It sure sucks being so sensitive to such things, as this display was top of my list.

It's obvious to me that LCD technology has almost reached its limit, with all future displays adding only slight improvements in some areas, while compromising in others. For example, the 2 year old NEC LCD20WGX2 has better responsiveness than the latest H-IPS technology. This is why I'm willing to spend extra for an acceptable LCD now, as there will be no point upgrading until OLED arrives in 5 years.
 
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Would it be fair to say this colour tinting issue is inherent in every HP unit, with most people being unable to detect it? I have a 2 high-end CRTs on deaths door with pinkish tones to the sides, which was enough to put them into storage. No-one I showed them to were able to see the problem. It sure sucks being so sensitive to such things, as this display was top of my list.

It's obvious to me that LCD technology has almost reached its limit, with all future displays adding only slight improvements in some areas, while compromising in others. For example, the 2 year old NEC LCD20WGX2 has better responsiveness than the latest H-IPS technology. This is why I'm willing to spend extra for an acceptable LCD now, as there will be no point upgrading until OLED arrives in 5 years.
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I reckon I'm pretty sensitive to these things (I bought an eye one after all) and cannot personally detect any colour tinting. For me, the monitor is completely flawless. Maybe I got a good one?
 
I have been looking around for a 24" quality monitor for a few weeks now and it came down to this or the Dell. Of course after reading the horror stories in the Dell 2408 thread I have decided to forget about the Dell.

I have read some great reviews of this monitor but just thought I would ask a simple question:

Is this monitor good quality and is it worth buying?

Reading through this thread I see some minor complaints and a few returns but I’m guessing not all the monitors have these problems and HP seem to have a good returns policy.
 
It seems to be a problem with recent LG.Display IPS panels rather than the HP 2475 in particular. According to an LG rep it's expected behaviour and does even out over time. I had suspicions it may be the heat from the power supply doing it, but as mine is now fine I don't know what to think.
 
philjohn said:
It seems to be a problem with recent LG.Display IPS panels rather than the HP 2475 in particular. According to an LG rep it's expected behaviour and does even out over time. I had suspicions it may be the heat from the power supply doing it, but as mine is now fine I don't know what to think.
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So the green/pink tinges will fade over time?

Has anyone noticed if games and movies look ok with this display or does the wide gamut ruin it?
 
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