Conclusion
So is the Dell 2407WFP-HC:
- better than the previous 2407WFP ? Yes. Color fidelity is, according to the colorimeter, slightly inferior to the rev 4 of the 2407WFP we recently tested, but to the naked eye it’s not obvious. But those who can really gain from this screen are users equipped with high-end reflexes that go outside of the sRGB color space. In movies as well, there is a gain with slightly truer tones;
- the current 24 inch to buy? Not necessarily. First of all, DON’T BUY IT at the high price of 980 Euros because it can sometimes be found for 735 Euros. After this, not everyone will prefer this screen to its rivals. 2 and 3 ms TNs are a little more reactive in games while MVA panels shimmer less in movies.
- affected by bleeding, ghosting, dark phantom images related to a poor overdrive or subject to the display of colored lines. This was described by a first few users of this monitor mainly on US websites. However, as we showed in the section on reactivity, our 2407WFP-HC has entirely standard behavior in all areas and there was nothing abnormal to report on these points in tests. And actually this was to the contrary, because the overdrive functioned particularly well with a reactivity comparable to the fastest TN screens.
At this point, afterglow is less related to the liquid crystals themselves than the natural retinal persistence in our eyes. This is due to the exposure of bright images for a relatively long period of time (1/60th of a second, without a transition to black between images, contrary to how CRTs function). We have high hopes with technologies that are starting to appear with Samsung and BenQ, respectively called MPA and BFI, and which are trying to remedy and even eliminate this problem. Unfortunately, this « artificial sweeping » currently causes more problems than it solves and MPA revealed to be quite simply useless. Moreover, after two years of highlighting this future technology at the CeBIT, Samsung finally launched its first MPA, the recently tested 245T, without even mentioning this aspect in the monitor’s characteristics! As for BenQ, BFI was introduced with a number of revisions compared to what it originally should have been. From the insertion of black images, they finally arrived at a backlighting system (at a doubled frequency compared to Samsung, and therefore better efficiency, in our opinion) and reactivity does improve – though only slightly. However, too much is lost in brightness homogeneity and comfort and we outright suggest you deactivate this function. In the end, for those who want the best reactivity for 24 inches, choose the Iiyama ProLite B2403WS. Then again, the Dell 2407WFP-HC does almost as well with wider viewing angles.
