HP LP2475w - 24in H-IPS LCD Monitor

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.

@Cream:
As I've emphasized in the review, it might not have optical but it does have a co-axial digital sound output, which you can hook up to an optical input of your sound system with a simple adapter. So basically, it WILL output digital audio from your Xbox360's (or PS3's) HDMI, and is one of the few monitors on the market to do so.

@faisal:
Sorry to hear that. We obviously reviewed the monitor we received, which performed brilliantly. If you read the comments you'll find that there are other people who are perfectly happy with their LP2475w's, though unfortunately there are also apparently a lot of problem cases.

Also, you'll notice that other sites on the web also gave the LP2475w brilliant reviews, so it's not exactly as if we were alone in our opinion.

Did you actually try adjusting the contrast settings and calibrating before making this 'grey whites' judgement?

@mickey:
I already answered this question from Antonio if you had read through the comments, but either way it's not really relevant as both panel technologies should give you similarly good performance.

@ddriver:
Thanks for your valuable feedback. We have a review of Dell's new IPS-based U2410 coming soon, which might be the answer for many people unhappy with their HP LP2475w.