HP LP2475w - 24in widescreen TFT review

Image Quality Analysis

Of course, the main reason we’re here is to find out how good that H-IPS panel really is. To do so, we’ve thrown a battery of tests at the LP2475w to test its competence in a range of tasks. The first up was high definition video playback. We used an HD trailer for the film Serenity, which has a mix of fast action and dark scenes to sort the men from the boys.

The result was fantastic, with the range of inky blacks being among the best we’ve seen; we saw next to no blocky textures, which often appear frequently on less capable monitors and quite frankly look awful. There was also no blurring or ghosting, with the video remaining crisp yet vibrant throughout. If watching HD video is on your list of things a monitor needs to do then you can put a big fat tick next to the LP2475w as it handles video admirably.


Next up was game testing and for this we used Crysis. We played through a scene set in heavy green undergrowth, with plenty of trees around, along with lush green hillsides and building-coloured buildings. What we looked for here is evidence that a display can handle a range of colours, which can massively increase the depth of the image and make it look more lifelike. We were also on the lookout for any signs of ghosting and blurring, and whether the brightness and contrast might need adjustment.


After boosting the contrast and reducing the brightness a little, we felt the the LP2475w was as balanced as we'd like. It handled Crysis extremely well. In fact we’ve never seen those lush North Korean-filled forests and hillsides look so good. There was so much range and depth to the colours that Crysis almost looked like a different game compared to playing it on a crappy TN-based screen.

Greens were so rich and varied that each piece of foliage had its own distinctive colour – a far cry from most other displays we’ve used, which often merge the foreground and background in Crysis into a single shade of green. The LP2475w is one of the best gaming displays we’ve ever used, and despite it having a relatively high response time of 6ms, this failed to translate into anything nasty, with no evidence of ghosting or blurriness. Viewing angles are also impressive; viewing the screen around 30 degrees off-centre vertically or horizontally resulted in little-to-no loss of brightness of colour. Even at extreme viewing angles text was still clear and readable, and videos lost little of their appeal.