Customer Reviews
Excellent Buy 
2008-07-07
This is an excellent monitor. I bought it as the second 22" monitor in my office and is superior to the Gateway monitor I bought several years ago in every way. The colors are bright and vibrant, the rotating stand is excellent and allows great height and tilt adjustments. Finally the dual DVI / HDMI inputs allow for further flexibility, I have one connect for my CPU and another for my PS3, though it may be used as a display for a separate system as well.
Don't Use the USB ports on the side, It blew up my video card 
2008-07-05
I used the usb port on the monitor to power my speakers, VERY Bad Idea.. It toasted my new video card!!!!! The speakers on the monitor are WEAK, But the Picture quality is AWESOME!
great monitor, great control, great color, crisp, good price 2008-07-04
Love this monitor, easy on the eyes, great crisp picture,adjustable, no problems at all, easy instructions. Get it!!
Four Stars for the price 2008-06-19
This is not the kind of professional monitor that a photographer or a serious graphic designer would use. If that's your bag, get one of those 23" Apple Cinema displays for $900. For anything short of that kind of exacting color control, this monitor is nearly perfect. It's bright, glossy and gorgeous. However, when the screen is dark, you can see a dark band near the top of the screen. Additionally, the monitor isn't nearly as vertically adjustable as I'd hoped it would be. I'm used to monitors that can slide up high enough that I don't have to look down at all. With this monitor, I had to buy a surge protector/monitor platform in order to elevate the monitor to a comfortable level.
That said, this is the best monitor in its price range. I've already ordered a second one in order to take advantage of the dual-monitor capabilities of my video card.
What I wish I knew before... 2008-06-18
As others have written, the visuals on this monitor are excellent, the sound is on the tinny side. I'm writing to cover new ground. I purchased this monitor from Amazon on May 21. It worked well for a week or so, then came the problems. The screen would go black when it was powered up. Unplugging worked for a while, but eventually the monitor went all white. To make a long story short, we called HP and the tech figured it was a bad pixel. In the chain of interviews one woman tech agreed when asked, that they would send a new, not refurbished monitor. When a refurbished monitor arrived, I connected to an HP supervisor and found the full story. When you purchase from an authorized dealer (Amazon is not) there can be a store warranty (eg 30 days, 15 days, whatever the store chooses). If I had purchased from such a dealer,and was over the store warranty a few days, the HP supervisor could have (at their discretion) sent me a new, not refurbished monitor. As it was, HP sent the refurbished model under a manufacturer's warranty. The HP warranty allows them to send a a new or refurbished replacement. It appears to be random, odds are it will be refurbished. This one year warranty on the model purchased from Amazon began not on the May purchase date, rather it is from the January 2008 manufacture date. If I had returned this monitor to Amazon, I would be subject to a 15% restocking fee. Welcome to a rock and a hard place. Failures like this are likely rare, but it leaves us with a refurbished model instead of the new one I paid for. Buyer beware.
4.5 stars - very good, highly recommended 2008-07-21
I've had this for 6 weeks. It worked flawlessly right out of the box -- I didn't need to fiddle with the color/brightness/contrast settings at all.
The display's picture and video quality is outstanding with rich colors and deep blacks. When I bought my Dell XPS laptop, I paid extra to upgrade to an LED display, which is better than the standard one. I used to love my laptop's display - until I got this HP monitor!
Text quality is good to excellent, depending on the font and size. Small font sizes are pretty readable, though some fonts aren't quite as crisp as I would have hoped for what, to me, is a fairly high-end monitor.
The included speakers are mediocre at best. If there is a version of this monitor that doesn't have the speakers (but is otherwise identical), then I'd recommend you get that instead.
I really like that you can turn the monitor 90 degrees to portrait mode, and the picture will automatically rotate so that it has the correct orientation. This is great for viewing documents as they would print on a standard sheet of paper.
This monitor has an HDMI input and comes with an HDMI cable. (Those cables are expensive, so it's great that HP includes one!) My Dell XPS laptop has an HDMI output, so that's how I connect. HDMI makes hookup easy, and maximizes picture quality. Most laptops don't have HDMI outputs, but if you have a DVI output you can get a DVI/HDMI adapter, or you can simply use the analog output.
If looks matter to you, I think you'd be happy with the looks of this monitor. The front has a piano gloss black frame around the edge of the display. The side and rear views are nothing special but not ugly like many monitors. I think the monitor looks good, but understated, so it blends in rather than sticks out.
HP sells an "easyclip" kit, which I bought. It includes four accessory holders that clip on to wherever you prefer along the side or top edges of the display. Two of these holders will hold a single photo or piece of paper (shopping list, perhaps). One holds a single flower, or a pen or pencil. And one holds headphones. I like having the easyclip holder kit, but it is definitely not essential. If you buy this monitor, it has a (removable) sticker on the base, advertising the easyclip kit.
If you have a laptop, here's a really useful thing you can do with this (or any other) monitor, depending on your laptop's video card.
After connecting the HP monitor, run both monitors simultaneously. Set either one to be the "main" one (with all your desktop icons and start button), and make the other one the "secondary" monitor. The secondary monitor acts as an extension to the main one. So, for example, you can drag anything from your desktop (say, a browser window that is not maximized) toward the right of the screen. As it starts to go over the right edge of the main display, it starts to appear on the left edge of the secondary display. You can run/view different things in the two displays - at the same time! I find this incredibly useful in my work - it greatly increases the effective screen real estate you have to work with. Very cool! Try it out!
Best Buy: Good quality, Good price. 2008-07-21
I am very pleased with this monitor. Looks very nice on my desk, the resolution is good and the price was right. Like they said, the sound from the speakers is just so-so, but enough to listen videos from youtube, etc. In summary, I would recommend to anyone thinking on a 22" monitor.
nice to look at and great picture quality 2008-07-18
I have the W2207 (same as this except with different inputs), and it goes perfectly with my black Macbook. . it is just so beautiful. Both form factor and screen. More bright than I need, I actually have to turn it down a bit. Fantastic monitor.
HP w2207h Review 2008-07-17
I purchased this monitor because I just got an LG BluRay burner and needed a compliant monitor with HDCP to view and write BluRay. I checked several monitors at Best Buy and the HP looked the best with the best stand. I'm very pleased with the performance of the monitor but the HP software that came with it crashed my computer so I removed it and used the software that came with my new EV3A NVIDIA graphics board. This works great with the only negative that the image must be rotated 90 deg. manually when in portrait mode not automatically like with the HP software. I highly recommend this monitor.
Watch out for GLARE... 2008-07-13
Hello Folks,
This is an absolutely beautiful monitor. I could not ask for/don't need more crisp definition, faster refresh rate, and/or more vivid colors.
There is one big problem though: GLARE
If you are like me, and have windows behind you, know that you will get enormous amount of glare. That "bright view panel" is acting like a sheet of glass.
I still give it a 5 star rating because it is such a beautiful monitor...but please be mindful of where you are going to have this monitor in relation to nearby lighting.
John
