Dell 2407WFP
Pros:
Cost
Colour
Brightness
Added features including a card reader and USB ports
Cons:
some difficulty getting DVDs to display property
the stand
The Bottom Line:
Yes, I recommend this monitor.
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Author's Review
(sometimes referred to as Dell 2407FPW, even by Dell)
I received this monitor last week and I am using it for general functions using Office and movies. I purchased a monitor this size because I often need to look at documents side-by-side in order to compare them or study one. I occasionally use this monitor for evaluating photos, but I am not interested in precise colour calibration.
I am very pleased with this monitor. It is sufficiently large to have two documents open side by side with each extending the entire vertical space of the screen. The monitor is very bright, so bright that I have reduced the brightness settings to about 30% of their maximum value. I believe that the increased brightness of this monitor (450 versus the typical 300) would be useful if I were to use it to show movies or tv at a distance to a small audience.
There were no dead pixels at all on the monitor, which is a benefit that Dell monitors are becoming known for - this is my second Dell LCD and I my older LCD also lacked any dead pixels.
The monitor was easy to set up and was plug and play.
Overall, resolution, crispness, and colour was excellent and I am entirely satisfied with the monitor.
However, two important drawbacks that I have noticed are that the monitor stand is not sufficiently strong enough, so that any vibration on the foundation is transmitted to the whole screen. THis is rarely a problem, but Dell should redesign the stand. The stand is currently some sort of metal (rather than plastic) and I suspect that they chose the single pillar configuration for aesthetics and space saving (and maybe production costs?).
I did have some problems playing videos on this monitor and you may need to find a DVD video player that works for your configuration. I tried four different DVD players, including Windows Media Player, Intervideo and finally Cyberlink. All the players except Cyberlink exhibited serious problems, including pronounced ghosting, and an odd rescan problem with Intervideo. This may have more to do with my video card than the software (Intel 900 series on a laptop), but once I switched to Cyberlink the DVDs were crystal clear.
