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By: ronss
September 9, 2009 @ 9:05 AM
I have this after reading some reviews…I was sort of unsure of the quality. After I received it and started it…wow. This is a great monitor for the price, all kinds of hookups. NO TN PANEL IN THIS ONE. The panel makes all the difference in the world! I don’t buy LCD’s with a tn panel..trash.
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I was suckered by good reviews
By: Winston
March 18, 2009 @ 11:25 AM
I did read here and there about pink tinting and uniformity problems with the 2408WFP. But TFT Central didn’t think that those were issues. Dell’s “Premium Panel Guarantee ensured replacement of monitors with zero bright pixels”. It had a 3 years warranty. It was a PVA. It was cheaper than Apple’s displays.
So I bought it. Now, about a month later, I wish I hadn’t. I wish I had spent a little more on an Apple display – if only for Apple’s better customer support. I will never again buy anything from DELL.
My 2408WFP has an inch-wide dark bank down the right side of the panel (uniformity problem). It is not a minor problem in my case.
A quarter of the panel on the left side has a pinkish cast. It’s as if the CCFL is too bright on the left, but too dark on the right.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, Dell customer service outright lied to me at least 3 times.
I hoped that maybe I ended up with a singular lemon, maybe it was damaged during shipping. So I called Dell support. Without any prompting on my part, the Dell support guy said “… we’ll send you a New unit… it’s illegal to export refurbished units…”
They sent me a refurbished unit, as I expected. This one had the same problems. In addition, it showed blotches of wrong colors across the screen when I set the desktop to a single solid color. I sent it back.
I called Dell again, and again Dell support tells me that a New unit will be sent. Right.
The 2nd refurbished unit didn’t have the original problems. But, even without my glasses, I could immediately spot 2 pixels stuck in red. Back it went. What happened to the “Premium Panel Guarantee”?
Finally, Dell support tells me that I need to speak to “escalated support”, that they will call me at a designated time. Guess what.
I have called and left messages for “escalated support”, but never heard from them. Yes, it has dawned on me that “escalated support” is Dell’s name for Dell Hell.
I started with high expectations for this monitor. I found the phrase “Dell Hell” only yesterday.
I wonder why are all those Dell Ultrasharp monitors are on sale these days?
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A fantastic,awesome LCD panel for the money.
By: Ron Walsworth
September 19, 2008 @ 10:04 AM
I work at a university on the Central Coast of California. I have setup on Faculty workstations close to 13 or so of these panels. Everybody that gets one loves it.The Apple 24″ iMac goes one better with even better overall quality in my humble opinion. But, for the money and what it can do, the Dell just can rock your visual world. :)
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Who Trusts User Reviews?
By: Stan Melton
September 10, 2008 @ 11:11 AM
My comments have less to do with this monitor than with Eric Peterson’s review. He based his review not on personal experience, but on other people’s opinions! How valid is that?
The answer is – not one little, tiny bit.
I trust expert reviews, where the monitor will be set up properly, using the best inputs, over user reviews where you never know how they have set up the monitor. Plus, you always get people that will slam a product because they have a vested interest in doing so, because they want to promote some other product, they have a prejudice against a vendor, or for some other reason. So user reviews have to be read and considered carefully and skeptically.
Reviews written by someone who has no personal experience with a product are totally, completely worthless!
I DO own this monitor, and I give it a score of 4 out of 5 (I don’t see a 1 to 10 scale!). It does have it’s flaws, but there is no better 24″ widescreen monitor available.
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No complaints...just a bit overpriced
By: Robert C.
July 11, 2008 @ 10:45 AM
I don`t have any complaints regarding this monitor because I actually own one. The 2408WFP-HC feels good. I jumped from a 21″ Sony Trinitron CRT.
It slightly lags on fast paced games (Battlefield 2, Crysis, GRID). The brain can adapt…trust me!
But the Blu-Ray and HD-DVD movies looks beautiful in full 1080p! It’s everything that I need in a monitor. You have to fiddle with the menu for color calibration.
No complaints so far…I’m still enjoying it.
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Good overall monitor
By: Jeff
June 3, 2008 @ 2:34 PM
I do not have this monitor, but one of my coworkers had it at his desk. The monitor looks great, and provides a ton of screen space to multitask several projects at once. He never experienced any problems, and the picture was sharp and vibrant.
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Contradiction to all user reviews
By: Eric Peterson
June 2, 2008 @ 2:56 PM
It is interesting to note the serious discrepancies when comparing user reviews and “official” reviews to this product.
I had done extensive research before understanding that this monitor was sub-par to previous generations and had some serious game-related issues, none of which are commented by this “official” review.
I would think twice about this monitor for the following reasons, based on personal reviews from all across the web:
1) HIGH input lag of 60ms or more.
2) Distorting colors and bleeding hues
3) Tendency to not function properly when multiple inputs are plugged in.
Otherwise, it is indeed a great monitor, but there are those serious problems that are monitors simply do not have. Again, this is NOT a gaming monitor. Playing fast paced FPS shooters on this would be less of an experience than on lower input-lag monitors.
If you’re skeptical based upon this “official” review’s seemingly high remarks without noticing the bad, do the research. Just look at user reviews on the web and on Dell’s own website and you will understand where this monitor sits.
8.5 out of 10? I hardly think so. 6.5 out of 10 is more appropriate I think.
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Great Monitor
By: Jason
May 31, 2008 @ 3:41 PM
I didn’t initially want to spend more than $500.00 on a monitor, but the Dell 2408WFP rocks. Great pic, good for movies or games. Highly recommended.
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