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  1. Janice •  March 8, 2007
    Rating: 2/5

    Wow, thanks for an honest review finally. I got this monitor with a PC package we bought, and it’s horrid. The colors always look washed out and the built-in speakers sound terrible, plus you cannot add a subwoofer. I was considering a Samsung monitor and should have asked for that instead.

    Rating: 4 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  2. John S. •  March 8, 2007
    Rating: 2/5

    This review finally puts it into perspective. I got one of these and thought it must be a good or at least decent monitor since it came with my PC, I was wrong. It takes forever to warm up, and since it doesn’t adjust, I had to rig it up to see it best. I still use it because I didnt pay anything, but if I had to, I would have picked a Dell monitor.

    Rating: 4 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  3. Tanmay •  March 9, 2007
    Rating: 2.5/5

    The reviewer says ” HP recommends that you use this monitor at the 1680×1050 resolution at 60hz, which is a very low refresh rate using the analog cable. You would have to lower the resolution even lower, at 1440×900 to get a faster 75Hz refresh rate.”

    This is an LCD Monitor ! There’s nothing such as refresh rate in an LCD Monitor there’s no difference in 60Hz or 75Hz as Technology of an LCD is totally different. I say read this : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refresh_rate

    Rating: 5 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  4. Ian Bell •  March 9, 2007
    Rating: 2.5/5

    While it’s true that vertical scan frequency is not supposed to be an issue with LCD monitors because they simply lack the phosphors of a CRT monitor, the vertical scan frequency does have a maximum refresh rate (in the case of the w22, 75Hz) to support motion, although it will not refresh static images.

    Rating: 5 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  5. Tina •  March 18, 2007
    Rating: 1/5

    Got one at Circuit City and brought it home, I was surprised that it didn’t come with a DVI cable. So I had to head back out, and most places wanted $30 dollars or more for this cable. The picture is not even that good either. I wished I didn’t get this monitor.

    Rating: 2 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  6. Dave •  April 18, 2007
    Rating: 3.5/5

    I have this monitor and for what it is, it fills the bill. Absolutely nothing but “meat and potatoes” wide screen viewing at (for me) a decent resolution. I look at the monitor for hours at a time (proof of the matter – flight simulator X long trips). I appreciate the monitor for what it is – and considering my vision, that says plenty. It’s hooked to an HP dv9260nr (Vista). Even though it does not rotate out of it’s horizontal display, I have no trouble with documents. And, I can’t figure why I would need to view a document on 22″ portrait.

    Rating: 7 :: 0 out of 1 people found this user review helpful.

  7. Shawn •  August 20, 2007
    Rating: 4/5

    Hi Folks,

    I noticed some of the reviews for this monitor lack the information on the graphics card being used to push the colors and desired picture.

    I just purchased this monitor at Circut City for $279, I dont use the speakers, it fits and adjusts perfectly on my desk. I am running Vista, with 4.8 processor, and Gforce 8600 GT graphics. Awesome picture, videos look huge and colorful, I think its great, (hope it dont crash now that I say that) I edit and design video, images, websites, art, etc. My son plays World of Warcraft on it and it looks like a movie.

    All the time, no lag, extreme detail from any angle, fron flight in the game you can see frogs and leaves on the ground its so clear.

    Best monitor for the price at the moment in our area also.

    Best part is it’s HP, everything I have from years ago is HP, everything else has fried in one way or another. Not the old HP dinosours up on the shelf in the garage. PCs, Monitors, Printers, they all still work.

    Shoot, I need to have a garage sale, I just reminded myself.

    Rating: 8 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  8. Bret •  February 16, 2008
    Rating: 4.5/5

    I’ve had this monitor for over a year now and have not had any issues. The picture is crisp with no fading. If only I could figure out how to set the resolution with XP so it looked normal.

    Rating: 9 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  9. Discruntled Dave •  July 31, 2008
    Rating: 2/5

    I was happy with the monitor but after a year and a half it crapped out. I’m getting all these diagonal lines and the monitor turns on and off all the time sporadically. HP told me it was out of warranty and there is nothing they can do. I’m going to follow up and try to talk to someone within North America this time. Very disappointed. LG has a 2 year warranty and HP apparently has a 3 year warranty on their commercial monitors. If they don’t help me out, it will be the last HP I’ll buy.

    Rating: 4 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  10. Peter •  September 4, 2008
    Rating: 4/5

    I bought this monitor without knowing anything about it. The colors are a little washed out but when I picked up a Spyder2 monitor calibration tool it fixed the problem. Probably there are better ones out there but it has a pretty good price/performance ratio

    Rating: 8 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  11. JB •  September 6, 2009
    Rating: 2/5

    Monitor took a crap after a year and a half. All HP’s except this one have a 3 year warranty. How convenient. The sounbar built in was nice, but not all that great. I knew I should have bought an Apple.

    Rating: 4 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

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