HP LP2475w - 24in H-IPS LCD Monitor Review

I just had to add my experience with this monitor

First off i want to say that IF you get a good one, this is a fantastic monitor, i stress 'if' because only my 4th monitor was satisfactory! The first, after an hour of use, went pinkish. The second, had a dead pixel! The third had the (apparently not unusual) issue of random flashing green pixels on certain images! Finally my fourth sample was perfect.....SO FAR! What if ound interesting is all of the bad sample were very recently manufactured whereas ther final good sample was from january 09. Some where made in poland others in czech. Finally i want to commend HPs customer support who offered no quibles replacements and dispatches them very quickly.

Unfortunately there really isnt an alternative to this HP on the market at this price bracket and so if you want IPS technology, 24inch, at £400 you better be prepared to accept a few dodgy ones before you get a good sample. I guess a few years down the line you wont really care about the short term hastle and hey you never know you may get a perfect one first time round!

I think you guys should include all those problems in the review, in order to avoid confusing people...

I JUST GOT this monitor, and after just decreasing brightness and contrast to acceptable levels I noticed the monitor starts turning dark and pinkish from the center to the right. I tried some other monitors in the office and not one exhibited such an issue.

There is a whole lot of people who complain about this problem. What is strange is that EVERY review of this monitor is not mentioning this issue, so my guess is HP sent ONLY GOOD units for reviews, while on the market it's a totally different situation. I've read about a dude who tried 6 (thats SIX) units before being able to find one without this flaw.

I am returning this monitor, only 6 hours after getting it. Even at this bargain price it's unacceptable, even 200$ monitors don't have such severe issues with uniformity and color tints.

And again, I really think you guys should EDIT that review and warn people of the risk, as it seems there is about 50% risk of getting a bad unit, and thats pretty high in my book.

Good Luck

Update to my previous post: Today a replacement was sent. It did not turn pink to the right but it's uniformity was poor as well, with the corners getting pretty dark. I compared it to the IPS NECs we have at the office and the NECs are almost perfect, several times better than the HP. Also besides the dark corners, top and bottom, the second display had a dead pixel that adds more to the deal breaker of the poor uniformity. I will try one more display and I am through with HP, I'm better of spending additional 250$ for a 24" NEC IPS, at least it won't feel like a lottery...

The display itself is good, in the middle, where there are no color tints and no darkening it looks awesome, but I think those defects speak of poor build quality, HP need to reconsider their production plants IMO... as there are a lot of people that strike a few bad units in a row, like I did.

To all of you considering to get this display: - be prepared to waste time looking for a good unit... or spend a little more on something of higher quality.

So very, very disappointing...

Got this screen 2 days ago direct from HP. So far so good, I'm no professional and will be using the screen mainly for gaming, buy my god what a screen, colours are amazing after a little tweeking. I do have a slight, and I mean slight tint from green to red on the screen, but if no one had mentioned it I don't think I ould have even noticed. I may have even put it down to the slight tint your eyes give you if I hadn't been looking for it. One grip I do have is it doen't have an optical output for sound which would have been nice when using HDMi(Xbox 360). Other than that great on P.C. and 360.