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3.0 stars
"Excels as a small 1080p TV but has light bleed at edges"
Pros: Excellent color as long as you don't limit the palette by using the pretty much debilitating wizard tool. Bluray movies and 1080p movies look great.
Cons: Awful ergonomics (power button ideally requires two fingers and thumb to operate; turning down volume requires a minimum a of 3 button presses), at desktop distances vertical orientation is almost impossible to view and there is HORRIBLE light bleed.
Summary: I really wanted to love this monitor - and when using it as a display for my PS3 I really do - and it has the essential feature set I was looking for: large size, tilting, HDMI input, etc. but as a computer monitor, text rendering is hardly any better than a cheap display, the speakers are useless and I too got bit by the "includes DVI but doesn't" marketing that this monitor was afflicted with. Warning to Canadian customers: if your 2408h is defective, you will have to send it back and wait for a "repair or refurb". hp will neither send you a replacement monitor first nor replace your defective monitor with a new one. I am a life-long hp customer (42" hp plasma display, hp desktops and laptops, hp camera, hp printers and hp monitors) and I've been lucky so far, but I am slightly disappointed with this monitor. I was actually going to send it in for replacement after the first week due to the extreme light bleeding at the edges but the repair people gave me a 3 month runaround and conflicting messages regarding what they would actually do to help me but the icing on the cake was when I examined a neighbor's 2408h and noticed that he had similar amounts of light bleeding. I'm scared now that hp will consider my light bleed "acceptable" or "normal" and send back my unit scratched and exposed to all that damage which comes with shipping (I baby my things). Having to send back something this nice, new and relatively pricey is not something I relish doing. Do yourself a favor and examine the monitor thoroughly at the store display and if the display monitor shows edge bleeding, ask yourself if you can live with it.
