HP LP3065: A new contender for the 30" throne
by Jarred Walton on March 22, 2007 7:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Displays
Calibrated Results
Brightness and Contrast Ratio
While a lot of people may never use a properly calibrated monitor, image professionals definitely need accurate colors. Here, we report scores for the same areas as we did on the previous page, only this time the results are taken after we have used Monaco Optix XR to calibrate the display.
The most significant changes from calibration come in the area of brightness, where all of the displays end up running at less than their maximum brightness. You can of course choose to run a display of a higher than recommended brightness level, and the ambient lighting in a room will also determine what brightness setting is best. Our testing was performed indoors with a moderate amount of lighting, and the displays were adjusted accordingly.
Color Accuracy
The uncalibrated results for color accuracy were generally mediocre at best for most of these displays, and only the Acer AL2216W came anywhere near a "good" rating. After calibration, however, the tables are turned: the Acer hardly improves at all, while all of the other displays improved substantially. The 30" displays and the HP LP3065 in particular do very well once properly calibrated. We just wish the displays were able to approach a reasonable level of color accuracy prior to calibration.
Brightness and Contrast Ratio
While a lot of people may never use a properly calibrated monitor, image professionals definitely need accurate colors. Here, we report scores for the same areas as we did on the previous page, only this time the results are taken after we have used Monaco Optix XR to calibrate the display.
The most significant changes from calibration come in the area of brightness, where all of the displays end up running at less than their maximum brightness. You can of course choose to run a display of a higher than recommended brightness level, and the ambient lighting in a room will also determine what brightness setting is best. Our testing was performed indoors with a moderate amount of lighting, and the displays were adjusted accordingly.
Color Accuracy
The uncalibrated results for color accuracy were generally mediocre at best for most of these displays, and only the Acer AL2216W came anywhere near a "good" rating. After calibration, however, the tables are turned: the Acer hardly improves at all, while all of the other displays improved substantially. The 30" displays and the HP LP3065 in particular do very well once properly calibrated. We just wish the displays were able to approach a reasonable level of color accuracy prior to calibration.
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Renoir - Friday, March 23, 2007 - link
That sounds like a very reasonable assumptionStill looking around for confirmation but I thought the ICT only affected analogue connections. If it does indeed affect digital connections then why are current software players not allowing full res over non HDCP compliant dvi ports given that no current discs have ICT enabled? We should be able to answer most of these questions when you get that laptop. I very much look forward to the review.
JarredWalton - Friday, March 23, 2007 - link
Bad news... the laptop is single-link. :(I'll still be able to test HDCP on a non-HDCP display, though. I've got a 2405FPW so we'll see what happens. Could be the software companies enforcing something that isn't strictly required?
chakarov - Friday, March 23, 2007 - link
Hope this could help you:http://www.behardware.com/articles/656-1/hdcp-prot...">http://www.behardware.com/articles/656-...ion-is-n...
Renoir - Sunday, March 25, 2007 - link
That link seems to confirm what I said which is that the ICT only applies to analogue connections and HDCP is always required for full res over a digital connection. At first Jarred I thought you might be right in that the software companies may be implementing something that isn't strictly required but the article linked shows that standalone units operate in the same way suggesting that that's the way it's supposed to work.chakarov - Friday, March 23, 2007 - link
In the specs:http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/3820...">http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm...382087-6...
And even in the detail specs:
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/1262...">http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/1262...
There is no mentioning of HDCP support.
There is nothing officially written.
May be there is a reason?
JarredWalton - Friday, March 23, 2007 - link
Interesting... I'm sure I saw HDCP there when I was working on the review, and I can find numerous web links where it says HDCP is supported (at single-link resolutions). I wonder if they updated the page recently to remove HDCP?Renoir - Friday, March 23, 2007 - link
Well the review states HDCP support and Loyd over at extremetech said that he was told by HP that the display "offers HDCP at full dual-link bandwidth". This information is what I'm basing my questions on although the fact that HDCP isn't mentioned in your links merely confirms that the situation is clear as mud. Clearly someone is either misinformed or spec sheets have been poorly writtenmi1stormilst - Thursday, March 22, 2007 - link
I have delt with a number of companies when trying to help friends and family with store bought PC's and there is no question that HP is second to none with tech support. If you own a HP system use the online chat support...it is excellent.leousb - Thursday, March 22, 2007 - link
To buy a monitor this huge just for gaming is IMHO a complete obscenity.OrSin - Thursday, March 22, 2007 - link
People been saying the asme thing about BMW, 65" tvs and pretty (but dumb) women.In the words of bart "We do what we like"