Dell E207WFP: £155 20-inch monitor shocker

AnonymousSat 21 October, 2006 9:08pm

Id'e like to know where can you get these for £150 as they are on sale on ebay for £244 either the price is wrong or someone's making a huge profit?

Thanks

Lennox BoydFri 27 October, 2006 6:45pm

these displays are availiable from ist Nov in Europe, dont expect htem to be £150 though, I would bet more like £200+

AnonymousThu 2 November, 2006 1:24pm

Yours for "only" £272.60 incl. VAT and shipping
Usually ships in 5-7 days.

AnonymousThu 2 November, 2006 6:39pm

yeah what a rip off , still they got a lot of good publicity from crave and the like.

took them totally for suckers......... and us.

http://accessories.euro.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=uk&l=en&s=dhs&cs=ukdhs1&sku=78642

AnonymousThu 2 November, 2006 7:45pm

Ah.. the benefits of globalisation. Dell: don't you understand what a pound is worth?
1 British pound = 1.9019 U.S. dollars according to google, today.
You can't even order it from Dell in the US and have it shipped over to the UK.

MeatLoafSat 4 November, 2006 2:57pm

I been playing with the new Dell E207WFP and my first impression is this thing has a serious backlight issue. Most all 6-bit TN monitors suffer from moderate bleeding with dark backgrounds, but this monitor bleeds with just about any mid dark background. Dell needs to have whoever is manufacturing this thing to get their act together. Color banding was noticable. Only thing this monitor will be useful for is gaming under bright high contrast conditions. Any other uses you will be wasting your money.

JimSFri 10 November, 2006 10:12pm

I've had my E207 for a week now and can give a pretty good review of it.

PROS: I did not find and banding like the above poster reports, though I have not tried it in DVI mode. I find images above average, clear and sharp. Text was crisp and sharp as well. Movies looked fantastic. I don't play games so cannot give a opinion on that. Also notewhorty to mention blacks and whites look really black and white, which is outstanding for any LCD. Very smooth rendering of faint/mixed color tones.

CONS: As reported above and elsewhere the monitor does have significant backlight uniformity issues. What I found annoying as hell is half of the lower screen is bright and high contrast while the upper half is darker and lower contrast. Anyone who uses this for office appications will get frustrated with two level britness application in front of them.

I also find that Dell overstates the horizonal viewing angle. I would put it more accuratly at around 140 degress.

I think once Dell fixes the screen backlight uniformity this monitor will deserve a rating of 8. It is a very good monitor and a shame the backlight issue has to degrade it :(

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 10:58am

With the price of £155 for 20-inch LCD monitor ... what are you waiting for?

AnonymousMon 10 March, 2008 5:28pm

Yes the Monitor is excellent, but, I mostly work in Photoshop and my images are stretched!! Perhaps I should have bought a 4:3 model, but I thought that I could run in 16:9 and swap to 4:3 when necessary. Well, yes I can but having spent ages figuring out how the menu works, because Dell did not issue any instructions on using the menu, I find that every time I power down and back on again I revert to 16:9. There does not seem to be any way to make 4:3 my default. I tried the lock in the menu but it doesn`t seem to do anything. Does anyone know how to stay in default? Harry.

AnonymousThu 8 May, 2008 8:13am

Harry, would you care to share how to get this monitor into 4:3 mode please? I have the 22" version but I'm hoping the menu structure is the same.
Many thanks,
Jim.