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craftech wrote on 1/16/2005, 7:50 PM
Considering the relatively short life of LCD displays, I could think of better ways of spending my money.

John
wcoxe1 wrote on 1/19/2005, 7:54 PM
I have LCDs of various type that are well over 10 years old and functioning perfectly.

This unit comes with a 3 year warranty.

I received it today, and it works PERFECTLY. Not a single bad pixel. And, it has features that the consumer version: F2305, I believe, doesn't have, such as automatic sizing, aspect control during video playing directly from my camcorder, more inputs, etc.

The consumer version was on sale here the other day, for only $2099, while this one was $1359. Hmm! I'll do without the built-in speakers, thank you.

I LOVE THIS THING. It adjust to all my programs automatically, and when I want manual control of aspect ration, it is VERY easy to set.

scissorfighter wrote on 1/20/2005, 5:08 AM
I also am a recent new owner of the L2335, and can second wcoxe1's "I LOVE THIS THING" statement. Bright, sharp, good color. Prior to this I had been using two 17" monitors plus an external preview monitor. The L2335 is about the same sq in as the two 17"s, but having it all on one screen is a big plus... do you know how big the timeline is at 1920x1200?!!

I do have two negative comments however. First, the aspect ratio is 16:10, not 16:9. If you feed it a 16:9 signal via component or S-Video, it gets scaled to 16:10 and there's nothing you can do about it.

Second, and this is not the fault of the monitor, most video cards do not technically support 1920x1200 resolution over the DVI connector. The DVI spec for single-link connectivity has a maximum bandwidth of 165mhz on the TDMS transmitter, which basically makes the ceiling resolution a little lower than 1920x1200. This problem applies to ANY 23" LCD, not just the HP. It's a limitation of the DVI spec. This is why the apple 30" LCD needs a dual-link DVI card, which are available but a lot more expensive than a commonplace single-link card. You'll find that most single-link cards work fine for most things at full 1920x1200 though. I've only found one actual problem... when viewing WMV HD at full screen, the picture craps out with a wierd interlacing-type problem. And if you call the vid card manufactuer for support, they'll just tell you that 1920x1200 is not supported and that'll be the end of that. For more info, just Google or start here:

Ryan
FuTz wrote on 1/20/2005, 5:17 AM

A chart here too that Videoguys didn't mention:

http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/tech_info/pdfs/general/matrox_video_4pg.pdf

Not cheap (Parhelias) but probalby worth it?