 - Panel type: 24 in Diagonal Widescreen Thin Film Transistor LCD Active Matrix
- Rotates / Height Adjustment / Swivel and Tilt Function
- 1920x1200 Resolution and 1000:1 Contrast Ratio
- 5 ms response time
List Price: $569.00
Lowest Price: $449.99 
Product Description: The HP W2408H Monitor rotates to allow landscape and portrait views, height adjustment, swivel, and tilt function. Dual inputs support true digital (HDMI) and traditional analog (VGA) signals. Connect your DVD player or gaming console with a single HDMI cable directly to your monitor. BrightView Technology provides brilliant picture quality. 160 degrees horizontal and vertical viewing angle Display resolution - 1920 x 1200 at 60 Hz Horizontal scan rates - 48 to 85 Hz vertical, 24 to 94 KHz horizontal Faceplate treatment - HP BrightView Technology User controls - Switch Video Input, Brightness, Contrast, Image Control, Color, Quick View, Language, Management, Information, Factory Reset, and Exit Dimensions - Width 586 x Depth 289 x Height 500 mm with stand Weight - 9.8 kg Customer Reviews: Rating: 
Date: 2008-07-03
great value for $450
okay, those who do RAW images and are Photoshop snobs for perfect colors and hues, go spend some serious money (>$1K) on a professional, photo worthy monitor; those who want a great picture on a BIG screen for less than $500, then this one fits the bill.
Background: I work in a large academic bioresearch lab with co-researchers coming in and out all day. When not stuck in a biocontainment hood or separating DNA or RNA from cells, I pretty much spend my work days in front of computers analyzing and graphing data, building plots, writing papers, checking emails, or loading my iPod. I decided to use only my new Thinkpad for all my work and get the desktop computer off my work area, but the 14inch screen just is too small for having lots of programs and figures and email, and plots up all at once. So I looked around, found this on Amazon (since I'm Amazon-prime... free shipping on a 24in monitor more than paid for the annual fees). Now I'm very happy, and co-workers are quite envious as they stare at their dim, puny 15" or 17" LCDs. THis display is nice and colors have good saturation, but most of all... lots of real estate to keep all my figures and plots on-screen. I'm sure an expert side-by-side comparison of this with a much more expensive monitor would show how the colors bleed in some text, but the black is very black, the colors are strong and bright, and for $450, I'm extremely pleased. The speakers of course are "tin"-ey sounding, but I didn't buy it to listen to music, I keep the volume down low on it, just enough to hear the "new email" bing-bong wave -- who needs Hi-Fi for that? And occasional You-Tube or news videos have crappy sound anyway. Set-up was simple and a no brainer -- plug-in, reset the resolution on video properties, you're done. If I'd wanted great sound, I'd have kept my big speakers (but they take up too much space). Don't buy this monitor if you also want a great sound from integrated speakers, as those two terms (great sound, integrated speakers), really don't go together in any setting (unless you're buying a home entertainment system for >$2K).
All-in-all, I'm really am happy with the value here. 18 months ago, you couldn't touch a 24in monitor for less than a G, now under $500, that's deflation in a time of $4 gas. Plus at least HP is a US company (of course not made in US, but what consumer electronics are these days), so some $$ stay here in the US of A. Amazon prime, one-click buying, and free 2nd day delivery right to my desk made this as easy as it gets.
Joel in Massachusetts Rating: 
Date: 2008-06-23
Monitor not compatible with MS DOS
This monitor goes to sleep and won't wake up about half the time when I go into DOS to use a frequently accessed program. I have to close everything I'm working on in order to not lose anything each time I go into DOS.
Sometimes I can get the screen to wake up by typing everything necessary to exit DOS, but this is hard to do with a completely black screen. Other times I have to shut the computer down and restart.
I have not bothered to call HP about this because when I first got the monitor I called them with a question about how you switch from VGA to DVI and I got a girl in the Phillipines who could barely understand English, and she did not even know what VGA and DVI were. She kept me on the phone for an hour and would not let me talk to her supervisor. She had me doing all kinds of stuff and would not say what she was up to, finally after an hour I realized she wanted me to read the manual that came on a disc. I could have done that in 2 minutes without any help from her. The manual of course does not tell you how to switch between VGA and DVI, if it did, I would not have called HP in the first place.
I gave up on HP support with a headache from trying to understand her English. It turned out that HP's cable was not compatible with the video port on my Dell computer. I had to get an adapter to put between the two. Rating: 
Date: 2008-06-18
artitst's point of view
Ok, I was kind of hesitant on getting a 24 inch screen but my husband bought if for me for mothers day/birthday. When I got it, I was really suprised with the clarity and display options available. The best thing that I noticed before I told my husband about was the fact that it swiveled 90 degrees! That is the most versitile thing that this does! I love it!! It did come with a program that changes the picture when you swivel it, so overall it was a great buy...though I thought it was kinda expensive but I'm spoiled anyway :P Rating: 
Date: 2008-06-16
Problems with HDMI cable connection
HP W2408H 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor
Watch out if you are connecting this 24" monitor with a new Windows Vista computer. IF YOUR New COMPUTER DOES NOT HAVE A VGA PORT, you are screwed.
My new HP COMPUTER center does not have a VGA port -- required for basic settings on the Monitor.
The monitor only comes with VGA & HDMI cables. If you happily connect everything with the HDMI cable, you'll find out that the monitor display driver software (on the CD) will not install. Try this 6 times: only get error messages.
You will need an adapter to get a VGA port on your computer, then use the VGA to VGA for setting up the Monitor. The picture quality is great afterwards.
cosmo Rating:
Date: 2008-05-29
Great monitor
I bought an Acer 24" first, but it looked fuzzy on anything but "native" resolution, which made type too small. With trepidation, I turned it back in for this one, and have been extremely happy. Very flexible in terms of setup for different resolutions, very sharp in most of them. Color tuning not tough. Don't discount the flexibility of the stand, also. Height can be adjusted all over the place, as well as tilt, and the screen can even be rotated to portrait. The width of the screen makes portrait orientation look about a yard high, but hey..
Anyway, overall, a good looking display. |
