Philips 244E2

Monitor Reviews: 22''-30'' LCD Displays

Like its little brother, it claims to be 'ready to immerse you in the Gaming and Movie world,' so we were expecting more or less the same results. Our tests, however, revealed a few differences. The 244E2 isn't an example of perfect usability and it only differs slightly from the 22'' in this respect. You can only tilt the panel back a few degrees, but it's the connectivity options that are left to make up for that. This time, the VGA, DVI and HDMI ports aren't joined by a pair of speakers, but a headphone jack. That means you can pick up the audio signal from a HDMI source and then send it on to your headphones or a set of . This time round, we had no problem with over the top contrast, but the colours needed a few tweaks to make them closer to the original. With the default settings, the discrepancy between the colours requested by the graphics card and those actually shown onscreen, or deltaE score, is 3.8. That's a little too high to say that colours are reproduced accurately, but it's not dreadful either. To improve things, you need to turn the brightness down to 75, switch the colours to 'user-defined' and then set green to 95 and blue to 93.