HP 2709m 27-Inch Diagonal Full HD LCD Monitor (Black)
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Screen Size: View movies, photos and online games,1 using a 25-inch diagonal widescreen monitor. Expand your work space from either your desktop or notebook by displaying two windows at the same time. Image quality: Enjoy Full HD3 and fine details with the stunning image clarity of 1920 x 1080p maximum resolution. Sharpen images and reduce glare with HP BrightView technology. Reduce blur while enjoying sports, action movies or online games with ... » full description
Screen Size: View movies, photos and online games,1 using a 25-inch diagonal widescreen monitor. Expand your work space from either your desktop or notebook by displaying two windows at the same time. Image quality: Enjoy Full HD3 and fine details with the stunning image clarity of 1920 x 1080p maximum resolution. Sharpen images and reduce glare with HP BrightView technology. Reduce blur while enjoying sports, action movies or online games with a 3 ms Gray to Gray response time. Experience a wide range of shading effects providing deeper blacks, brighter whites and subtle colors with 60,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio. Design and Experience: Complement your computer by adding an HP monitor—designed to be a perfect match with any HP PC or notebook. Free up more desk space with the monitor’s slim profile that fits a keyboard at its base. Share videos, photos and documents, using a wide-viewing angle. Adjust the monitor to meet your needs, using the tilt and swivel features. Optimize the display to match your experience—movies, photos, or games—by selecting one of the Quick View modes directly from the monitor. Connectivity: Connect another device using the HDMI input. Display digital content using a DVI-D with HDCP. Easily connect to more than one PC using both DVI-D and VGA ports. Widescreen technology:New 16:9 aspect ratio delivers optimized wide screenexperience for both practical computing applicationsand movie watching. From 18.5 to 27-Inches, HP has a monitor to meet your needs. « short desciption
User Reviews
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Review Date: 2009-11-18
I bought this monitor after days of research, For the price and size, you can't beat it. Quality is good. Picture is nice for the price. Overall I am very happy.
My system:
2.53ghz Mac Mini
Apple wireless keyboard
Apple Magic Mouse
This makes my system look like the new 27" iMac, but for less than $1000 total.
User: dj_AmTraX
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Summary: Glad I didn't buy a 27" iMac
Helpful Votes: 1
Total Votes: 1
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Review Date: 2009-11-08
Awesome monitor especially for the price. Tough to find a monitor with a glossy screen. Excellent colors and very bright. Perfect for working, gaming, or browsing. Just wish I would have bought two!!!
User: G.Z.
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Summary: Big screen, small price!!!
Helpful Votes: 1
Total Votes: 1
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Review Date: 2009-11-05
This is my first Amazon review, yet I have used my fellow Amazon user's reviews so frequently in the years past, I feel compelled to start contributing!
I have only had this monitor for 1 day, so feel a little premature writing this. However, I will certainly come back and edit it this if anything changes my perception. The monitor was purchased via Amazon, I'm an Amazon Prime member so used one day delivery for $4. For whatever reason, it took 2 days, but I'm not complaining...works for me (2 day shipping was projecting 3 days delivery). Delivery was via Fedex, and the box was in fine condition (a few nicks here and there, but nothing to get excited about).
Background:
I used to keep my computer on the absolute cutting edge of technology.....6 or 7 years ago that is. Life has changed, Marriage, 2 kids, time and $$$ traditionally used on my computer have since been re-allocated. I used to play some games on it, but like everything else, my uses have changed over the years. My current use is for internet / email type work, Word, big Excel documents, powerpoint presentations. Skype, DVD burning, simple video downloading / editing, and working from home occasionally. I'm getting into Photography a little bit, but it will never be anything I do professionally...I just like to take nice pictures of my family. I have a nice Canon Digital SLR camera, 15.1 megapixel = big picture files, so the computer does a LOT of picture management, and editing via Photoshop CS3
As mentioned above, my computer has been ignored a bit in regards to upgrades. But 6 or 7 years ago, this thing was as hot as hot could get. Pentium 4 3.2 Ghz, 3 Gig of RAM (this was upgraded for Windows Vista reasons), ATI Radeon X800 - 256 Mb, 1 TB Hard drive (recently upgraded for the amount of pictures I'm making).
My computer recently got a little make over...it is now running Windows 7 Professional. It runs it very well, very speedy, no issues.
OLD MONITOR:
My monitor is what I consider the best CRT computer monitor ever made (but maybe I'm just biased). NEC 22" (20.1" viewable) FP2141SB. Capable of resolutions far beyond everything except for maybe the high end 30" flat panels requiring the DVI Dual-link connections. But with a 20.1" viewable, those resolutions just don't make sense on it.
Recently (over last year), I've grown to love my flat panel at work, and wish my clunky 60 pound CRT monitor could reproduce the same crispness. But, it just can't...even as good as it is...its not an LCD monitor.
NEW MONITOR:
I went monitor shopping, ready to leave my CRT behind and step into the world of LCD. I searched everywhere on the internet, and visited stores as well to get a feel for how everything truly looked. I read reviews (both professional and from consumers like us. As my old monitor had a viewable size of 20.1 inches, I wanted something with a screen at least as tall as its screen....just wider. And, the bigger the better! I considered the Hanns-G 28", but read horror story after horror story, so it was dismissed. I looked at several 25 / 26" monitors from Samsung, LG, ASUS and others. In the end, I chose the HP 2709. In the stores, it absolutely jumped off the shelf full of monitors and screamed in your face "LOOK AT ME!". Its brightness, and vibrance really just seemed to be incredibly nice, and to me, better than the competition. I believe the glossy screen had a lot to do with this, if you compare one with (HP or LG or maybe others) to those without, it really does make a substantial difference...SUBSTANTIAL!
The monitor arrived from Amazon without any issues. No stuck pixels that I can find, no scratches or flaws. It is setup, connected via DVI (I bought a nice DVI cable...primarily because my computer isn't right next to the monitor and I was concerned about cable length). I have my computer running at the recommended resolution of 1920x1080
The picture is absolutely stunning! The colors are so incredibly vibrant, and this thing is very very bright (again, I'm coming from CRT...but I work with LCD every day at work). The aspect ratio - 16:9 - provides an amazing amount of room to work with on your computer's desktop. The glossy front is PERFECT, would choose it again and again and again. Initially I was a little concerned about reflections (despite the advertisement of anti-glare). Its setup on a desk in a room that is 20 ft x 20 ft, the monitor is in a corner, with an enormous window just 4 feet down the side wall to the monitor's right. The room also has a fan with light fixtures in the center of the ceiling. I have ZERO glare issues...both when used during the day yesterday (window possibility), and at night last night (lights possibility). No issues at all!
icons are crisp, with edges sharper than a razor! text could not be any more perfect, I'm certain of it. The resolution of 1920x1080 would suggest small icons and small text, but on this 27" screen, this is NOT the case. The nature of my desk puts this monitor probably about 2.5 to 3 feet away from my face, and the icons are very large, and text is perfect to my eyes. I've seen bad things happen when you force an LCD to do something below its native resolution, and I'm happy that 1920x1080 looks perfect to me.
Right out of the box, the colors blew me away. I've read people saying that lots of adjustments are needed for this monitor. I'm going to be a lone guy here and say that I haven't adjusted ANYTHING yet. I haven't even pushed any buttons (well, except for the power button obviously). I'm floored by the colors! My digital pictures from my Canon 50D DSLR look far more stunning than they did on my old CRT. But, I would never say I'm a videophile, despite having a videophile's taste (I have very large flat screen TV in one room and an HD home theater projector in a media room that cost me a considerable amount of money). I'm sure some adjustments are needed (I have calibration media I've used with the other previously mentioned products), but I have just been soaking in the absolute BRILLIANCE of this monitor since turning it on.
Viewing angles don't really apply to me. I sit in front of my computer...I'm thinking most do...right? Everything is very easy to see from the sides when viewed off center, though you can see a bit of a yellowing tint when considerably far off center.
I have experienced no "mosquito noise" that one reviewer had an issue with on his unit...its absolutely silent. Heat generation is about normal (when compared with what I felt on other LCDs in stores). I can easily rest my hands on the top vents without the sensation that my hand is melting. Some complain about the stand being insufficient. I don't know about you all...but I don't hit my monitor very often. I noticed no instability during constant use all day yesterday. In fact, I find the stand to be pretty beefy, small in size, but substantial in quality (if that makes any sense).
I played one of my OLD games from 6-7 years back. Unreal Tournament 2004. as its a little long in the tooth, it wouldn't allow me to play at 1920x1080 (that resolution didn't exist back then I think!). But, I played it at the highest available widescreen resolution, and the colors were fantastic, there was no ghosting or blur (and, this is a FPS game that is fast paced action), I saw no screen tearing that is mentioned on the CNET review. It was fantastic for me!
So, for such a long review, this monitor is WONDERFUL, it is GIANT, icons and text are SHARP & CRISP, colors are more VIVID than I could possibly imagine! My 60 pound CRT has been transitioned to my wife's computer (a nice upgrade for her too). However, if the HP2709 continues impressing me as it has so far, I will be getting her an HP monitor in the same line as this one. Very, very impressed! 5 stars!
I'll make updates as time goes along...but right now, I wish I had done this sooner!
User: Geoffrey A. Mcdaniel
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Summary: HP 2709m....I LOVE IT!
Helpful Votes: 5
Total Votes: 6
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Review Date: 2009-10-28
I have been trying upgrade my home computer to a larger monitor and the prices does not seem to catch on like HDTV. But the HP is quality plus an affordable price and the end result is praiseworthy. The monitor on first impression is visually spectacular. The colors don't compare to my older, smaller Dell which has a hefty price tag but I can say that after 3 months of usuage that I don't even miss my older Dell and that I actually like the HP for mainly the larger screen size and no complaints on visuals anymore.
User: Bobby J. Truong
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Summary: 27" of Bliss
Helpful Votes: 3
Total Votes: 3
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Review Date: 2009-10-14
I found the cnet review for this monitor to be pretty accurate. It is a little tricky to adjust the hues/saturation/brightness to get just the right balance. I wouldn't purchase this monitor for movie viewing, but as a computer monitor for work it is very good. Can't beat the price!
User: Kenneth J. Baldauf
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Summary: Good for the $$
Helpful Votes: 1
Total Votes: 1
Product Details
- 27-Inch Diagonal 16:9 screen with BrightView
- 1920 x 1080 Full HD resolution
- 5 ms On/Off response times (typical)
- 400 nits brightness
- 30,000 Dynamic Contrast Ratio
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