HP LP2275w review

With the HP's purported 118 percent color gamut, we noticed a definite red push. (Maybe its colors were too saturated at the factory settings.) Our recommended settings for the LP2275w for movies and games are Brightness set to 70 (or as high as your eyes can handle), Contrast at 58, and Color Temperature set to Custom, then taking Red down from 255 to 245. That should give the picture on the LP2275w a much more balanced color reproduction.

Juice box

HP LP2275w	Average watts per hour
On (Default Luminance)	51.83
On (Max Luminance)	55.56
On (Min Luminance)	25.85
Sleep	1.41
Calibrated (200 cd/m2)	50.08
Score	Poor
Annual energy cost (@$0.1135/kWh)	$16.44

Brightness (in cd/m²)
(Longer bars indicate better performance)

Brightness

Gateway HD2201 22-inch

292 

HP LP2275w 22-inch

283 

NEC AccuSync LCD22WMGX 22-inch

281 

Samsung SyncMaster T220 22-inch

265 

Dell SP2208WFP 22-inch

258 

Dell Crystal 22-inch

214 

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Service and support
HP delivers a three-year parts, labor, and on-site service limited warranty for the HP LP2275w. The company provides 24-7 toll-free customer service via phone, with e-mail and chat support also available. Unfortunately, this toll free service is only available for 90 days, which is strange as most vendors include toll free service for at least a year.

Replacement options include second business day on-site service, or next business day direct replacement; unfortunately, this is at HP's discretion. Thankfully, with direct replacement, HP will ship the display directly to you.

The monitor does not appear in the main monitors section on HP's Web site, so we were only able to find its drivers by searching through the Support and Drivers section of the site. The display comes with Pivot Pro software, but we could not find a place to download it on the site, just incase you uninstalled the software and lost the CD.