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HP ZR30w Reviews
HP ZR30w
It's difficult to review the $1,660 HP ZR30w fairly, without also mentioning the $1,500 Dell UltraSharp U3011. I won't speak in specifics concerning the Dell's performance (we've tested but not yet reviewed it), but I will say that it offers many more connections and features than the HP ZR30w, at a lower price. The monitors use the same LG panel, but unlike Dell with the U3011, Hewlett-Packard decided not to include an On Screen Display (OSD) with the ZR30w, severely limiting its performance potential, as the only adjustable option is brightness. Although the ZR30w has great baseline performance, it's difficult to recommend it when there are other, much more well-equipped 30-inch monitors on the market for a lower price. The HP ZR30w is a giant beast of a monitor. Not unexpected given its 30-inch screen size. The panel measure an ultrawide 27.2 inches and is 2 inches in depth initially and adds another inch for the power and connection options, bringing the panel's full depth to 3 inches. The footstand is the footstand to end all footstands, measuring a full 17 inches in width and 10.6 inches in depth.
HP ZR30w 30-inch LCD
You might recall seeing three of HP’s ZR30w 30-inch displays gracing the cover of our September “Dream Machine” issue. Considering our theme for that build was raw, wanton power, picking the ZR30w was an easy decision. We haven’t been this wowed by a display since we laid eyes on NEC’s LCD3090 WQXi, which we reviewed in our March 2010 issue. But that 30-incher costs nearly twice as much as this one. Both monitors are based on S-IPS panels, as all the best LCD monitors are, and both deliver native resolution of 2560x1600 (a 16:10 aspect ratio). But the ZR30w’s real claim to fame is color resolution of 10 bits per color per pixel (HP defines this as 30 bits per pixel), which enables it to produce 1.07 billion displayable colors. That’s 100 percent of the sRGB color gamut and 99 percent of the Adobe RGB color gamut. The ZR30w’s video inputs are limited to a single dual-link DVI port and a single DisplayPort. There’s HDCP support on both of these, but we would have appreciated the inclusion of an HDMI port, too. It’s not that we want to send audio to the display—this one doesn’t have built-in speakers, and we imagine they’d sound terrible if it did—it’s just that having HDMI would be convenient.
HP ZR30w 30-Inch S-IPS LCD Monitor Review
How should you go about determining what size monitor to buy? It's simple - go out and purchase the biggest, baddest display you can afford, because really, you only get one shot at this thing called life, so why waste it staring at a 23-inch panel? If you're still not convinced, consider that, more than any other component in your entire build, it's the monitor you'll use to its fullest 100 percent of the time. You can't say that about your dual-videocards, six-core processor, or even your keyboard, but it certainly applies to your display, the one piece of hardware that brings the entire build together. Suffice it to say, when HP asked if we were interested in evaluating their new ZR30w display, we answered 'yes' before they were finished giving us their pitch. We didn't need to hear the rest - the fact that this is a ginormous 30-inch display built around a sexy S-IPS panel is all we needed to know. S-IPS, or Super In-Plane Switching, is the Rolls Royce of display panels and almost always offers significantly better color reproduction and far wider viewing angles than the much more common (and cheaper to produce) Twisted Nematic (TN) panels.
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HP ZR30w 30-inch S-IPS LCD Monitor | $1169.57 | See it |
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Hp Vm617a8aba Lcd Flat Panel Display | $1205.19 | See it |
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Hp Performance Zr30w 30" Lcd Monitor 7 Ms - 16:10 - Adjustable Display Angl... | $1212.86 | See it |
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HP ZR30w 30 Widescreen S-IPS Performance Series LCD Monitor | $1219.99 | See it |
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ZR30w 30inch SIPS LCD Monitor size=2> ( Please call for availability ) | $1220 | See it |
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Hp Vm617a8aba 30" Zr30w S-ips Lcd Monitor | $1243.04 | See it |
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Hewlett-packard Vm617a8aba Performance Zr30w 30" Lcd Monitor | $1292.89 | See it |
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Hp Vm617a8aba-hp Performance Zr30w 30" Lcd Monitor - Kit | $1344.5 | See it |
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30IN LCD 2560X1600 1000:1 S-ips ZR30W Dvi-d Dp Hgt/tilt/swvl/usb Bl | $1601.72 | See it |
