Hewlett-Packard 30-Inch Lcd Monitor (EZ320A8#ABA)

List Price: $2,652.16 Discount Price: Too low to display

Features:

• HP LP3065 30-inch wide LCD monitor
• HEWLETT-PACKARD

Customer Reviews:

Outstanding Performance!! [Posted on 2007-05-23]
This is truly an outstanding monitor. I require high-resolution and high color performance for critical graphic analysis and have used a great many CRT and flat pannel monitors. I find that the HP LP 3065 to have amazing resolution and color performance; better than similar models from Apple or Dell. You will need a high-quality dual-channel video board to drive it and it can take input from up to three computers. I will need more time to determine its durability but I have four of them and will buy more.

Outstanding [Posted on 2007-08-19]
I have been using this monitor for four months now and plan to get a second in the very near future. The colours are true, display is sharp and bright. And there is nothing like working on a big screen.

It delivers exactly as promised with one very minor shortcomming, like all 30" monitors on offer at the moment it only works at full resolution, there is no scaling chip to support downgraded resolutions. This does not matter if you are using it with a graphics card that can support the full resolution as the issue is known and the cards will do the scaling if necessary.

The only practical limitation is that you cannot plug this monitor into a machine that does not support its native resolution. This is not a likely to be a problem as you are not likely to buy it unless you have a machine that can drive it! At the moment the graphics card settup will set you back almost as much as the monitor or more if you have an SLI setup.

I looked at the Dell and Apple alternatives. The HP is somewhat cheaper and has both a built in DVI switch and USB 2.0 hub. According to the specs you can only drive dual link DVI over 15 ft of cable but I have this working fine over a 50 ft cable driven by an nVidia 8800 GTS.

Color too Saturated [Posted on 2008-01-01]
Overall a good monitor but even after using my monitor profiling system the colors are excessively saturated. The Samsung 305T 30 inch monitor has much better color.

If you are doing color critical work I would be concerned. However, if you are doing general work, surfing, or gaming this is a great product.

USB Deal Breaker [Posted on 2008-01-05]
Three DVI inputs is great, but there is only ONE USB input. Without USB input switching ability HP should have just left off the USB entirely.

Inclusion of USB hub input switching feature wouldn't be earth shattering. The Mitsubishi 2020u from 1998 had two upstream USB ports and could automatically flip the USB input when the video input was changed.

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