Customer Reviews

Dell UltraSharp 3007WFP-HC 30-inch WideScreen Flat Panel Monitor

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It's big, bright, fast, beautiful and did I mention it's big? I mean two side-by-side magnified A4 documents big. The $1100 price is great too compared to other 30" models.

The reason why this monitor is considered obsolete by Dell is the complaints from videophiles about its lack of connectivity options. Specifically, dual-link DVI is the only way in. So, if you are planning on connecting game machines or BlueRay drives or HD cable boxes via HDMI, you are out of luck. But, why would you want to do that? Even full HD video only goes up to 1920x1080. This monitor does 2560x1600. It makes a lot more sense to pay $800 for a 42" 1080p LCD TV, which is bigger and better for viewing video anyway. This is an ultra-high-resolution monitor, pure and simple, and I love it for doing a good job there.

===== Added 11/29/2008 =====

As the channel runs low on stock of this monitor, the Gateway XHD3000 30" Widescreen HD LCD Monitor becomes a better value. The latter, however, does not employ the S-IPS panel from LG, which is generally considered the best and most expensive LCD technology as of 2008. This is another reason why some 30" monitors are still a good buy in my mind even though 24" models are selling for under $300 nowadays. Those cheap monitors use TN panels, with poor color, contrast and viewing angles. Smaller S-IPS monitors (e.g. HP LP2475W 24in LCD Monitor 1920X1200 and Planar PX2611W 26-Inch Widescreen Digital/Analog with Height Adjust Stand (Black)) still cost $600+ and are becoming scarcer by the day due to the competition from its cheaper cousins. Even Samsung, which holds the patents for the middling S-PVA technology, has been introducing TN models.

I agree with the other reviewer in that this 30" is the leader in its class of IPS panel with gorgeous resolution and yet affordable price. Connectivity is hardly an issue if you intend to use it at its native 2560x1600 (why would anyone use any lower res). Apple has stopped making 30" Cinema so even the double priced alternate is gone. Get this one, you won't regret it.

This is one of the best monitors available today, it was originally released around 2007 but still holds up as an exceptional montior. The monitor sports an S-IPS lcd and outputs a native 2560x1600 resolution. If you need to use this for gaming, graphic design or just for fun this is a very good monitor - for both professionals and casual users. There is no built in hardware scaler but that isn't much of an issue if you are using the native resolution anyway. I've used this monitor to play games on and while people claim there can be ghosting on s-ips monitors I have not noticed any at all and I've tried it with fast past shooters. I've also used it as a general monitor for day to day surfing, developing and watching movies on and it's worked just great. Easily one of the best monitors and Dell continues to sell them because they are still in demand.

Everything seems to work as expected.

Nice and BIG, great resolution, HDCP, lots of goodies like USB ports & Multidisk.