HP (Hewlett-Packard) w2207 22" LCD Monitor

HP w2207 Monitor

Strengths: Brightview clear screen, colors and text flawless, great monitor stand rotates to portrait and landscape positions, built-in speakers.

Weakness: Buggy pivot control software for rotating monitor.

This is by far the best monitor I have used. I ordered it directly from HP. It has a beautiful brightview clear screen with a nice shiny black bezel around it. I develop software for a living and use this monitor more than 12 hours a day. The supplied pivot software for rotating monitor is buggy, especially after updating video drivers. It does not always work right and support to get it to work...
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This is by far the best monitor I have used. I ordered it directly from HP. It has a beautiful brightview clear screen with a nice shiny black bezel around it. I develop software for a living and use this monitor more than 12 hours a day.

The supplied pivot software for rotating monitor is buggy, especially after updating video drivers. It does not always work right and support to get it to work is not there. Speakers are not the best for music and video, but for basic audio feedback, it is nice to have them there. Two USB ports on the side of the monitor are a nice addition.

There is a nice accessory pack available that allows hanging my headset on the side of the monitor, as well as pictures, pen or flower.

By Bestware - Mar 25, 2008

This is the best widescreen out there

Strengths: Beautiful colors, extremely sharp, great contrast ratio, highly adjustable stand, USB ports, screen can rotate 90 degrees.

Weakness: High-gloss screen reflects lights from behind easily. Default settings must be turned way down. Provided software is buggy (even at ver. 1.11).

Before this monitor I had tried Samsung's 226bw for a week, a comparable widescreen offering. This screen is much better. The blacks are much darker, there is no backlight bleeding at all, and the colors are much richer than Samsung's screen. I am very picky about my displays, but this unit does everything I want. It has no bad pixels at all, and this is common with these units I read. Movies...
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Before this monitor I had tried Samsung's 226bw for a week, a comparable widescreen offering. This screen is much better. The blacks are much darker, there is no backlight bleeding at all, and the colors are much richer than Samsung's screen. I am very picky about my displays, but this unit does everything I want. It has no bad pixels at all, and this is common with these units I read. Movies look great on the screen and are ghost-free as does first person shooters. The colors are beautiful, although I do admit that for serious graphic artwork you'd best stick with a CRT since all LCDs have a relatively narrow color gamut, although are far, far sharper.

One silly thing about this monitor are the default brightness and contrast settings, which are way too high and make the screen look worse than it should. To get the best picture on this unit, I recommend the user turn the brightness and contrast both way down. I have my brightness down to 80 and contrast to 65. These settings give more accurate color, sharpen text enourmously, and are still so bright and contrasting that one almost has to squint in a dim room to look at the screen.

Overall, I love this screen.

By domitron - May 7, 2007

mixed bag

Strengths: USB included, bright,

Weakness: major problems with calibration, text rendering

Display on my new iMac was perfect straight out of the box, no need to adjust anything, this wasn't by ANY measure. Grossly washed out, very harsh on the eyes text. After one hour of trying to calibrate this monitor (Somehow HP was too lazy to include a predefined color profile), much improvement but still far from what I see on my iMac. So despite my best efforts I have two screens now sitting...
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Display on my new iMac was perfect straight out of the box, no need to adjust anything, this wasn't by ANY measure. Grossly washed out, very harsh on the eyes text.
After one hour of trying to calibrate this monitor (Somehow HP was too lazy to include a predefined color profile), much improvement but still far from what I see on my iMac. So despite my best efforts I have two screens now sitting side by side, one clearly inferior in terms of text rendering and that's the HP. Another problem: color shifts if you look at it from anything but a perfect 90 degree angle, this is especially pronounced in the portrait mode where additionally corners are much dimmer even when in perfect straight on viewing situation. Reflective (i.e. highly polished mirror like finish) not very helpful in normal usage, nice for video though.

The monitor could use S-video input at this price ($330)

Will probably return it to the store.

(minor quibble: I like clean elegant Apple styling, being forced to look at a shiny phony-chrome HP logo, little buttons and totally unnecessary labeling all day long is simply not nice, also the stand is way too massive, out of place visually speaking)

By Anonymous - Apr 23, 2007

WOW, awesome lcd monitor

Strengths: -bright and sharp -no ghosting -very stylis at a reasonable price -"plug n play" for me under Win px. Automatically calibrate to match my setting at native resolution: using radeon 9550 with dvi

Weakness: -when viewing at an angle, the side looks a bit yellowish...Maybe i just have to mess around wit the setting abit more

I did so much research on 22' flat panels based on price, reliability, and picture quality. I narrowed down on a few 22's included: samsung 22' cw series, hanns.g, viewsonic, and HP. My initial choice was the hanns.g(price=230) 22' w/ Hdmi input, read the reviews on various sites: newegg, cnet, etc and user reviews were all positive and relatively cheap for 22'. Reason I didn't get the hannsg is...
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I did so much research on 22' flat panels based on price, reliability, and picture quality. I narrowed down on a few 22's included: samsung 22' cw series, hanns.g, viewsonic, and HP. My initial choice was the hanns.g(price=230) 22' w/ Hdmi input, read the reviews on various sites: newegg, cnet, etc and user reviews were all positive and relatively cheap for 22'. Reason I didn't get the hannsg is because many reviewers said they get some sort of dead pixels out of the box and the styling is decent.

Then I decided to check out the samsung 22' cw series, good reviews. I was about to get this but then I happened to see HP 22' and it looked so nice. Since I own an dv2500t, I thought it would look nice next to it so I did some comparison between the samsung and the HP. I did some search on user reviews on both of them and they both got positive reviews so I decided to look for a full review for both of the lcd's. I found a review from a user who bought both of them in stores so he compare to see which one is truely the best. The review he gave out was very thorough and detailed. From the review, I decided to go with the HP because it is the best looking 22' lcd out there. Samsung 22' comes second. According to the reviewer, he stated that 2ms on samsung didn't really make much different, compared to the 5ms on the HP cause he tested in games like HL2, BF, etc.

I was gonna order the HP from newegg, found out that bestbuy also selling the same one for the same price, so i might as well buy at bestbuy cause it is easier to return if i happen to get oen w/ 1 or more dead pixels. Then just when I was about to order it online at bestbuy site, I did a quick search circuit city website and amazingly, they also sell the lcd FOR 319.19, I thought that was a missprint or something. When to the store, asked the manager and he then checked the website and he saw it so. I was alittle skeptical about the price also since the store price is 359.99, in the end, he said, "well if the website says 319.19, ill just give it to you at that price". I ended up buying the lcd at circuit city+2years advantage plan since hp only has 1year warranty.

So far, I've had this monitor for a few days already, I'm loving every minute of it. Overall, I'd recommend this lcd to anyone who is looking for stylish, affordability, and picture quality, this one has them all. And if you're lucky like me, u might find one for the same price as I did or cheaper.

CHECK OUT CIRCUIT CITY WEBSITE, they might still have it at 319.19

Hope my review helps

By anonymous; - Sep 5, 2007

HP W2207

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