ChrisM 3007WFP-HC Question.

Lets hope its got a OSD and more buttons to play with aiiiiii

 

Just curious :D

I am more hoping it is actually released this year...  (with or without the xps710 bundle)

 

OSD would be nice, but as is, its a ghost feature on a paper-launched monitor.

 

Chris M. enlighten us!

There are quite a few rumors and ideas as to what this HC will bring, the concensus seems to be another S-IPS panel with the Wide CCFL tubes to give it the 92% NTSC gamut which the HP LP3065 touts. The LG.Phillips panel specs seem to be slightly better also (assuming this uses the same panel as HP), but at this point, I am far more interested in software additions, like a functional OSD that has RGB color intensity sliders, as some of us need their monitors calibrated...

 

As far as image retention problems go (better known as ghosting), I haven't heard nor seen anything grievous about the current Gen so I am not worried with the next gen (unless they go some PVA variant for the panel...). Its no CRT but at 30 inches its also not 230lbs of desk breaking bulk either.

 

Are you saying (xponentia) that you noticed ghosting on this unit? 

It does not have a menu button as shown in the high res press photo from dell. It looks exactly the same as my 3007WFP.

 

I'm guessing it's just a panel upgrade with some backlight and image retention fixes hopefully.

 

I'm getting one as soon as my dell channel sales can get me one. :)

Ghosting is different from Image Retention... I am getting Image retention on the current 30" when the brightness is on the top 2 settings.

 

For example after the email client is open for about 20 minutes on the same screen then minimized with a grey background then you can still see the outlines of the window and items against the grey background, though it is faint it is noticable.

 

On a somewhat related note I bought an 8800GTX and a Blu-Ray burner and cannot play HDCP content on the 3007 as apparently the 8800GTX only has HDCP on a single link of the first port. This limits you to 1280x800 with scaling for Blu-Ray content.

 

ATI's next gen card should support dual link hdcp so I may just return the 8800.

Xponentia, my mistake on the Image Retention and ghosting confusion.

 

How bad is it in your case? How long does the outline persist after the e-mail client has been closed?

 

...and tough luck about the HDCP over extreme high res. I heard of that over at the HardForum a while back. Are you sure ATI's solution will have it?

 

As far inability to playback HDCP content, I had heard most movie studios had agree to leave the ICT (image constraint token) flag off for the immediate future. I would check to make sure your media player is not enforcing restrictions that your blu-ray disc has not imposed.