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October 10th, 2009 23:00

You will have to experiment with PIP/PBP and post them for us. We do not have the options listed.

You can connect both PCs to any of the three (VGA, DVI-D 1, DVI-D 2). Use the Input Source Select button to switch between the two PCs.

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October 11th, 2009 13:00

Received my U2410 and it is indeed an outstanding monitor for the price. Still working to dial in the wide gamut.

As for multiple computer connections it is a simple connection and input selection (VGA, DVI1 or DVI2). PIP/PBP also works fine - albeit very small images. You will have to play around with setting up the PIP/PBP by switching the monitor on and off while configuring PIP/PBP, but it will work.

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October 11th, 2009 22:00

It would be cool if you could list which inputs allow PIP/PBP when using VGA and then test DVI and show which ports allow PIP/PBP.

May 1st, 2011 15:00

Here's some of my experience with PIP connectivity. I hope someone from Dell can tell me if there are any solutions:

1. I have two U2410's. I have to say, their video performance is stunning.

2. I started with a generic built-in video adapter in my PC. It a DVI and VGA output, so I connected those two and enjoyed a 3840 x 1200 pixel desktop in Windows 7. When you're a software developer, having the extra space is really useful.

3. I connected a cable TV box (DVR) via HDMI to the right monitor. I would either watch TV full screen on the right side, or see it with PIP. That way, I could have 75% of my screen for computing and see a little bit of TV in a far corner. This was pretty nice.

4. About the menus.  It takes too many button presses to go from all computer to TV in the PIP. There is a customize function for the buttons buts value is questionable.  It saves you one button press so you can reach the Input Source menu a little faster.

Far, far better would be to make those buttons bring up setup 1, setup 2 or setup 3. That way, with one button press you could switch between computer, TV, or computer with PIP TV.

Please think about it Dell : how many users need quick daily access to the contrast adjustment? Making something user-configurable might make you feel like you've enabled users to have things their way, but what a silly choice you made.

 5. Next, I went out and got a high performance video card by current standards (NVidia GTX570). It has two DVI outputs, so I hooked those up. It looks spectacular. But here came a rude surprise. When DVI is the main input source, you cannot use HDMI as the PIP source. It is disabled in the menus. OK, but you can use Component. Great, so I hooked up a nice set of Component cables to my DVR and it didn't work. Why? Because the DVR, a Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8300 HD, disables the Component output when it senses HDMI connected. This problem is solved by disconnecting the HDMI. An even better solution to watching TV on one of your monitors is to get an HDMI switch.  Some are quite inexpensive (less than $20) and include IR remote controls.  With that switch, you can select either your cable box of computer output (if it has HDMI) to feed the 2410's HDMI input.  Then, to watch the TV in PIP mode, you would use the Component output of your cable box.  Component is generally not as good as HDMI, but for a reduced PIP image, I doubt you'll see any difference.

It seems a number of prospective users want to know what combinations of inputs can be used with PIP. Here is what I've seen enabled in the menus:

With Input Source of DVI, enabled PIP sources are VGA, Display Port, Component and Composite.

With Input Source of HDMI, enabled PIP sources are VGA, Display Port, Component and Composite.

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May 2nd, 2011 07:00

Thanks for the great post!

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