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

 (16 customer reviews)

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...Read more

Technology. There are several types of TFT LCD (thin film transistors liquid crystal display) technologies. The lowest-cost technology, TN (twisted nematic) which is used in all LCDs priced below $400 is known for its relatively poor color accuracy and color shift depending on the viewing angle. This is not critical for e-mails and document processing but is important for photo and video editing. These panels are typically built internally with only 6 bits per channel and physically cannot reproduce 24-bit color depth. Thanks to interpolation (dithering) and other hardware tricks they can approximate some of the colors and can reach up to 70% of the NTSC color gamut. The next step up is VA (vertical alignment) technology which reaches up to 100% of color gamut due to 8 bits per channel, but still has some color shift depending on viewing angle. The best and most expensive technology is IPS (in-plane switching). It offers the best color accuracy and practically no color shift...Read more

There are two reasons to buy a large monitor. The first reason is to display a larger and easier to see version of the same image. The second reason is to display more. If you want it for the first reason, then this monitor is NOT for you. You are better off getting a 22" or 27" monitor. These monitors have the same resolutions as the standard 20" and 24" respectively. Images appear larger on them. Sure, you can increase the font size on your current monitor, but the only way to get larger web page images is to get larger pixels.
If you want to see more, then the HP LP3065 with its stunning 4 million fine pixels is definitely the monitor to show the most on screen. For the multi-tasker, you have room for all the opened apps without much overlaps. For the number crunching type, you can see an 86 row by 39 column spreadsheet in readable 10 point text. Although you can get 20% more pixels in 28% more areas by buying two 24" monitors at a lower price, the downside is the...Read more