30IN LCD 900:1 2560X1600 SX3031W-BK Blk 6MS Wide Review

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(More customer reviews)I recently purchased one of those at a good price, couldn't pass on this opportunity even though I knew the Dual-Link DVI connection was not supported by my graphics card, and would like to comment on this aspect.
Graphics card: NVidia NVS 450 (DisplayPort outputs)
- output 1: DisplayPort > DP to DVI (single link) adapter > SX3031W input 1
- output 2: DisplayPort > DP to DVI (single link) adapter > SX3031W input 2
With the above setup, running 2 DVI cables from just one PC to the SX3031W, I get the SX3031W to run in Dual Display mode at twice 1280 x 1600 resolutions, thereby covering the whole screen. This is nearly identical to running just one cable in Dual-Link DVI, the main difference being that FlashPlayer (or Youtube) will zoom to a half-screen only. Otherwise, windows can run accross the two halves uninterrupted, for example when I open Excel and maximize it manually it gives 85 lines and up to column AM.
Strangely the Eizo setup manual lists the highest compatible resolution in Dual Display mode at twice 1200 x 1600, which is wrong. Indeed the NVidia Control Panel tells me both halves are 1200 x 1600 native, and yet gives me the choice also of 1280 x 1600 which is obviously better.
If I switch to Single Display, I get two different max resolutions with the above connections:
- from input 1: 2048 x 1536, good surprise as this resolution is supposed to require a Dual Link DVI connection !, however not all of it is shown at once, the card does send 2048 x 1536 but only an area of 1920 x 1200 is displayed, that window is scrolled by bringing the mouse to the side of the screen (again it seems this functionality is not detailed in the manual)
- from input 2: 1920 x 1200 (which is regular for DVI single link)
Whenever I get the chance I will try a DP to Dual Link DVI adapter but online reviews mention they are not stable: my double DVI (single link) connection is a workable way around this issue.*** UPDATE Feb 25: even better !
The above results were obtained with the 2 half screens being run in what NVidia calls "Dualview" (ie, configured independently). I discovered that the NVidia Control Panel also gives the choice of "horizontal span" when 2 screens are identical (which is the case here) and that results in Windows seeing both devices as one large display. Bingo ! With this option selected, the two half screens behave exactly as one full screen of 2560x1600, including for FlashPlayer zooms.As a conclusion, the SX3031W connected by 2 regular (single-link) DVI cables to a graphics card that gives a "horizontal span" option, behaves in Dual Display mode exactly the same as if connected by one dual-link DVI cable. This allows for a perfect connectivity:
- from 2 DisplayPort outputs with 2 DP>DVI adapters, with better reliability and lower cost than using a DP>dual-link DVI adapter
- or from 2 single-link DVI outputs (cards such as the NVidia NVS 290), likely (I cannot confirm this but it makes sense)

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ATEN 4-Port USB 2.0 Dual-Link DVI KVMP Switch with 2.1 Audio Support CS1784 (Silver) Review

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(More customer reviews)This product is the absolute best if you want to switch between high resolution monitors. Well worth the money - all other models are junk I have used except ATEN!

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Smart Buy 30IN LCD 2560X1600 1000:1 ZR30W Dvi-d Dp 7MS S-ips U.s Review

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(More customer reviews)After a few hours playing with my new ZR30W, the results are in!
I've tested images and gaming of the ZR30W versus the other monitors on my desk; the LG W3000H 30", BenQ G2400W 24" and Viewsonic's VX2265WM 120Hz 22". I have not yet color calibrated the screen with my Spyder 3 Elite.
First impressions:
The ZR30W came in a real nice thick quality well packed shipping box.
The Bezel around the screen is just a tad thicker than I was imagining in my head, just a few millimeters shorter than the LG W3000H. One positive to the HP bezel though is it's the same width on all four sides which is helpful if you ever want to do portrait multi-display.
The stand is nice and wide with a decent heft. Just plain matte black plastic, the LG's is a little fancier and has a piano black gloss base.
There is not as much vertical adjustment on the HP as I would have wanted. Especially for us taller people, it's nice to have a screen that can raise pretty high. The LG stand allows another inch or two height here, so the LG wins the stand department. Neither can do portrait mode, you would need a much beefier stand design to reach that tall.
The HP has a nice aluminum strip around the entire edge of the display , adding a nice quality touch. These 30" panels are very deep though, for multi-display gaming overlapping the displays bezels will be a bit tougher. I have removed the LG's bezel before and there was significant space savings to be had with the bezel removed for surround gaming. I haven't done this yet to the HP as to make sure I have a long term fully functioning display before voiding any warranties. Although if removed properly, i don't think the manufacturers could notice that the bezel was removed.
The HP has just 4 buttons out front, on/off, source and dim/bright buttons. That's all I need. The LG has a LED on/off toggle for the power indicator and a way to turn off the beeping sound as you make bright/dim adjustments. The Hp doesn't make any menu noise, it let's you know you have reached the min/max in brightness by simply blinking the power LED. The HP's power LED also goes off after a few seconds which I like.
On connectivity, the HP has the LG beat. The LG has a single DVI-D connector, while the HP has DVI-D and Display port. While I think DVI-D isn't going anywhere soon, it's nice to know you have the option for Display port if those future graphics cards are DP only. Both monitors have two under monitor mounted USB ports and two on the side.
My HP arrived with zero dead/stuck pixels just like my LG. It appears the quality control on these higher end panels is much more stringent over the cheaper panels. I've read a few reports of early ZR30W's exhibiting some sort of audible buzzing noise from the power supply when brightness was reduced. My HPZR30W is silent at any brightness setting. Either I got lucky, or more likely HP resolved the issue that a few early monitors had. The build date of my HP is May 2010.
Now for picture quality:
The instant I turned the ZR30W right next to my LG I could see there was an improvement in image quality. The LG uses the LG LM300WQ5 panel, but I believe the HP uses a newer revision of the basic LM300WQ5. I have not taken the monitor apart yet to confirm this. The largest difference that I can see appear to be the back lighting. The ZR30W exhibits much purer whites. You can really tell that there are some high-end wide color gamut CCFL's in the HP. The LG look's to have a greenish/tan tint to it compared to the HP. I cannot stress it enough how good the whites look on the HP.
For color reproduction in standard sRGB color-space, both are very similar. The HP might have a tinge more saturation or "pop" to the colors over the LG, which in itself looks very good. The TN panels next to the IPS look just dreadful in comparison.
Contrast ratio's are still very good, very similar between the LG and HP. Although, with the HP's purer white's, the contrast seem's more crisp in the transition from white to black. Pixel response times appear to be identical using test images. Ghosting to my naked eye appears to be identical to the LG, which never had a huge ghosting problem to begin with. These are quite fast IPS panels and to my subjective eye don't ghost any more than the Viewsonic 120Hz TN panel using the same test image.
Input lag appears to be imperceptible, just like on the LG. This is thanks to the lack of a scalar which I find a very good feature. I only run 2560x1600 resolution so I need no extra electronics that would add input lag. you would neither want the LG nor the HP for PS3/Xbox 360, but that's not what it's designed for. You would need a good test setup to accurately gauge input lag that is below one frame. Moving minimized windows quickly across the desktop cannot match the fluidity of the 120Hz panel, but that is expected. You can't win all the categories! (Hello OLED?)
Both the HP and LG can only do exactly 60Hz, sorry movie editing guru's. I've adjusting both manually and at different resolutions, but they both just go signal blank when fed a 50Hz signal.
In conclusion, I thought it was going to be hard to beat the LG W3000H in image quality. The ZR30W has surpassed my expectations. The pure whites, excellent colors, limited ghosting and very low input lag make this the best display I have ever used. The LG is off to Ebay and my order for two more HP ZR30W's has been placed for nVidia Surround. The unfortunate side effect of going 7680x1600 3x 30" is that I realized I need a larger desk. After viewing quality displays like these, you do realize just how poor the image quality of TN panels are and both of mine will also be off to Ebay.

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Apple Cinema 30-inch HD Flat-Panel Display Review

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(More customer reviews)In all likelihood, you are reading this review with two separate goals in mind. First, you want to make sure that nothing is horribly wrong with the lyrically-beautiful, breathtakingly-enormous 30-inch Cinema Display. After all, it is only natural to worry that its intoxicating attractiveness is counterpoised by some hidden, yet devastating, flaw. Well, you can breathe a sigh of relief: it is flawless. Indeed, it represents the very essence of perfection in both function and form.
Second, you are reading this review in a desperate attempt to find some way to justify the purchase of a 30-inch Cinema Display. Perhaps you need to justify it to your thrifty spouse, and are trying to find a reasonable answer to that inevitable question, "but why do you NEED a 30-inch monitor?" Or perhaps you must justify the purchase to an emotionless manager, who is unable to appreciate the aesthetic beauty of this gargantuan monitor. Fortunately, previous reviewers have outlined a number of possible justifications that you might find helpful: a larger monitor improves work efficiency, reduces strain on your eyes, can double as a TV set, etc. Simply select the justification that will be most convincing to your target audience, and don't take no for an answer. I wish you luck.
However, never lose sight of this fact: you do not need to justify the purchase of a 30-inch Cinema Display to yourself. Even trying to do so is dangerous, since in all probability you will be unable to justify spending $1800 on an enormous monitor when you have a perfectly serviceable monitor already. Yes, I'm sure that some people have a genuine need for a 30-inch monitor, but (be honest with yourself) you are almost certainly not one of them.
And more to the point, any attempt at justification is irrelevant. This monitor is not about need, or utility, or functionality, or productivity, or other such tedious concepts. It is about sheer, unabashed, covetousness. You want it. You must possess it. You feel an inexplicable, unjustifiable compulsion to buy it. The vast expanse of the 29.7-inch viewable area haunts your waking thoughts, and appears in your dreams as a luminous vision of perfection that is always just out of reach.
Don't question it. Just buy it.
A year ago today, I did exactly that. Twice. Now, looking at both of my 30-inch monitors in front of me, I feel that I have come closer to true contentment than most people do in a lifetime. Is that shallow? Maybe. But I don't think so. And I'm willing to bet that you don't either. If you did, you would have stopped reading this review a long time ago.


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Includes: DVI cable, FireWire 400 cable, USB 2.0 cable, and DC power. Apple 30" LCD Cinema Display - This huge 30" computer monitor is perfect for the prosumer and professional alike. Imagine multi-tasking with multiple full-size windows open simultaneously, or editing video with a super-wide timeline! It has a native resolution of 2560x1600, and a contrast ratio 400:1, for stunning quality on a Mac G5 powered computer.Brightness - 400 cd/m2 Viewing Angle - 170 degrees horizontal / 170 degrees vertical Antiglare Hardcoat Screen Treatment Kensington Security Port User Controls - Display Power, System Sleep, System Wake, Brightness and Display Tilt Connects to a Macintosh via a digital DVI connection Macintosh system requirements -Power Mac G5 and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL graphics card (offered as CTO option for new Power Mac G5 customers and as a kit for current Power Mac G5 customers (M9593G/A) PC capable only if Windows PC is equipped with a dual-link DVI graphics card (some resolution adjustments may be required)

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30IN Ws LCD 1000:1 2560X1600 LCD3090W-BK-SV Blk Dvi with sensor &sw Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a great price/performance color calibration monitor. Very happy with results - we use it in our film production company - allows us to 'know' with confidence that we are looking at the same color as our post-house. Knowledge is comfort.

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Dell UltraSharp 3007WFP-HC 30-inch WideScreen Flat Panel Monitor Review

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(More customer reviews)It's big, bright, fast, beautiful and did I mention it's big? I mean two side-by-side magnified A4 documents big. The $1100 price is great too compared to other 30" models.
The reason why this monitor is considered obsolete by Dell is the complaints from videophiles about its lack of connectivity options. Specifically, dual-link DVI is the only way in. So, if you are planning on connecting game machines or BlueRay drives or HD cable boxes via HDMI, you are out of luck. But, why would you want to do that? Even full HD video only goes up to 1920x1080. This monitor does 2560x1600. It makes a lot more sense to pay $800 for a 42" 1080p LCD TV, which is bigger and better for viewing video anyway. This is an ultra-high-resolution monitor, pure and simple, and I love it for doing a good job there.
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As the channel runs low on stock of this monitor, the Gateway XHD3000 30" Widescreen HD LCD Monitor becomes a better value. The latter, however, does not employ the S-IPS panel from LG, which is generally considered the best and most expensive LCD technology as of 2008. This is another reason why some 30" monitors are still a good buy in my mind even though 24" models are selling for under $300 nowadays. Those cheap monitors use TN panels, with poor color, contrast and viewing angles. Smaller S-IPS monitors (e.g. HP LP2475W 24in LCD Monitor 1920X1200 and Planar PX2611W 26-Inch Widescreen Digital/Analog with Height Adjust Stand (Black)) still cost $600+ and are becoming scarcer by the day due to the competition from its cheaper cousins. Even Samsung, which holds the patents for the middling S-PVA technology, has been introducing TN models.

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NEC LCD3090WQXi-BK 30-Inch Widescreen High Resolution LCD Monitor Review

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(More customer reviews)I've had this monitor for ~2 years now and love it.
I use it for both FPS's/games and critical color with with pictures, development work, etc. It handles all of this without the slightest trouble- games are fine, no ghosting at all, that I can tell.
The only issue I've had is that if you're working on mainly black backgrounds- if you look _really_ hard, you can see lots of subpixels that are partially active- it's as if the liquid crystal is partly, but not entirely rotated.
Most of mine are green and only seem to be on the right side of the screen. If I'm using anything but black, I can't see them.
This has never caused me trouble and I don't see it unless I'm really looking for it, so I've ignored it/
I don't know if this is just MY monitor or if this is a more widespread problem.

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Dell UltraSharp U3011 30-inch Widescreen Monitor with PremierColor - Max Resolution 2560 x 1600- 16:10 Aspect Ratio - Contrast Ratio 1000:1 - Response Time 7 ms - Supports Digital DVI-D, HDMI, DisplayPort, VGA, Composite Video - Built-in Scaler for Multiple Resolutions Review

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(More customer reviews)Looked at many monitors with reasonable color gamut in the 27-30 inch size which would be compatible with my late 2008 15 inch Macbook Pro (5,1). Main uses are photography, web design and general office productivity (office, writing papers, electronic medical records). I looked at the NEC 3090 series and the NEC and Dell 27 inch monitors as well. I have experience with the Barco and Eizo monitors at work in the radiology department (where the is also the occasional Dell). Here are the things that eventually sold me on this monitor.
1. Comes with displayport. This is huge on a Mac. It was simple to use a mini-displayport to displayport cable (about $15) to get the monitor working with my Macbook Pro. Full resolution off the bat with no sleep/wake issues, no software to install. There are some serious issues using DVI-D with the 2560x1600 screen resolutions on both the portable and desktop macs. Not the fault of the monitors, but the fault of Apple and their implementation of video cards. You could spend hours online reading about the problems with cables and adapters. Nobody seems to be able to get them to work reliably. Check the NEC site for the latest as they have posted technical bulletins on this issue and things may have changed. Price of the monitor was not an issue for me, but the potential time trouble shooting problems was. I hate computer maintenance and trouble shooting (which is why I'm on a Mac and wish I could ditch all the PC's in the office).
2. Good color gamut, comes reasonably well calibrated, easy to calibrate further with an x-Rite eye-one display 2. That IPS technology is heads and shoulders above TN screens for any serious photography work goes without saying. Covers a good part of the Adobe RGB spectrum (and all of the S-RGB spectrum). As of early 2011, the mac OS is not capable of 12 bit color from end-to-end (OS, software, hardware, output) and therefore to a certain extent, you can't use all the capabilities of the hardware calibration of the NEC Spectraview system at this point in time. People get pretty obsessed about this kind of stuff, but the bottom line is that most pictures are seen on computer screens which have never been calibrated and will not be as good as this Dell (or the NEC) nor can you control the lighting conditions under which someone will view one of your prints. Aside from the most demanding color-accurate uses (you're making commercials for coke, printing fine art for sale), this monitor will get you 99% of the way to where you need to be. No one will ever notice the last 1% (unless they're a geek on a photog forum with lots of spare time). If you really need the best in color management and have the hardware that can take advantage of this, go with the NEC, Eizo or other high end screen.
3. Lots of connection options. USB, speakers, HDMI/DVI-D (I don't use), etc. Some might consider it sacrilege to have these sorts of connections on a professional monitor. I consider it convenient. Less cable clutter.
4. Price. Not cheap, but it is about $1000 less than the NEC which uses the same panel, but different hardware (in fact all the high end 30 inch IPS panels come from the same manufacturer). Usually can be found for between $1150-1300.
5. Screen is NOT too big. I sit with my face about 2-3 feet from the screen. No neck problems so far. I do like the added screen hight that 1600 pixels gives you. Works well with the traditional 3:2 slr format. Also, by the time you add the menu bar and some of the control panels in Lightroom or Photoshop, you tend to loose a lot of working space on the widescreen (16:9) type monitors. I didn't like the feeling that I was working on a panorama the whole time. I worried that I would need to sit miles back, but this is not the case. No real drop off in brightness and the viewing angle is very good.
This is a much better choice if you were considering an Apple 27 inch display - Apple has a much, much inferior color gamut, reflective screen which can be an issue in bright rooms, similar price and lack of other connection options make the Apple somewhat limited. The Dell really was plug and play for me.
Hope this review helps and saves you some time (esp. if you have a Macbook Pro). Hard to go wrong with the Dell or NEC.
PS - No difficulties with Mid-2008 13 inch Macbook Pro. Somewhat of a surprise because of the integrated graphics, but no glitches. Full resolution w/ the minidisplayport to displayport adapter.

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