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Great for better game accuracy

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:00:01 GMT

Great for better game accuracy

Anonymous from Maryland

This is the successor to the 281H so reviews you'd read there are the same or better for this model. I can't tell from the specs what the differences are - I think there are maybe 2 HDMI ports instead of 1 and maybe some other minor tweaks. Correction to Best Buy's posting: the native resolution on this monitor is 1920 x 1200, not 1920 x 1080. The box says that and all the software is using the higher resolution as well. I have had 21" Samsung monitors for a few years and was looking for a larger screen to improve accuracy in shooter games like Battlefield 2142. I looked at the 25.5" Samsung and this 27.5" (not really 28") monitor together, and like the picture on this one much better. The increase in vertical and horizontal size of an object is significant for games where you're trying to get a mouse pointer into an area quickly. So going from the 25.5" size to 27.5" size did seem worth it to me after I compared the two monitors physically. This monitor is paired with a late-model Gat … Read more

Great Product

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:01 GMT

Great Product

peaty from Pullman, WA

I have had this monitor for a few weeks now, and I am very happy with the purchase. The monitor is the perfect size. After upgrading from a laptop 15.4", this is awsome. The image on the computer is perfect, crystal clear. Watching Blu-rays is flawless. I have not seen a better picture on a Larger HDTV. On XBOX 360, the picture is decent up close, not great, but from a normal gaming distance looks solid. Netflix and Itunes viewers look decent for a 27.5" screen. I also love that i can watch a dvd, blu-ray, netflix instant or anything on half the screen while i roam the internet on the other half with a full webpage. I have not tried any newer computer games yet. For a college kid who stares at this for 8 hours a day, its GREAT. Also, there are 2 HDMI, VGA and component imputs... WOW Only drawbacks are... no power saver, no remote (not expected, but this feels like a TV), and if your watching the monitor from well below eye level, it can get slightly dark. This is rarely a problem at al … Read more

Blown away!

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:01 GMT

Blown away!

Zeke77 from the desert

What an absolute bargain! I was considering 2 different 24" BenQ's that actually cost more money than this Hanspree 28" from BB. I am stunned just how good this monitor is. I didn't think upgrading from a 22" Samsung 225BW would be so dramatic, wow, was I wrong! The monitor is very fast and motion blur is very hard to perceive. It completely blows away the 5ms (GTG) Sammy. The colors are a bit washed out of the box but are significantly improved with the included X-Tune utility (the newest version and driver should be used from Hanspree's site). After the calibration the colors look very, very good for a TN. Very happy with that fact. There are a couple a defective sub-pixels (not whole pixels) on the far right side of the screen but they are not annoying in any way and are super tiny anyway, I am not going to bother with exchanging as I could end up with far worse. A couple out of 2,304,000 pixels is pretty darn good. I will forget they are even there after some use. Overall impressio … Read more

Amazing display

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:01 GMT

Amazing display

PhantomPretender from Beaumont, CA

As an avid San Diego Padres fan who lives in Riverside County, I watch all of my baseball games over the Internet through MLB.TV. Previously, I had been watching the games on a 32" Westinghouse LCD TV that was connected via VGA cable to an older HP laptop. Because I wasn't able to use a connectionb etter than a VGA cable, I was forced to watch the lowest feed (400k) on about a quarter of the screen. Needless to say, the detail was awful and it was a struggle to watch the game from more than 6 feet away. I had been searching for a solution to my problem for some time and when Best Buy put the Hannspree on sale, I jumped all over it. Due to the inlcuded DVI/HDMI cable, I was able to connect the Hannspree to my newer Dell XPS PC. I could not be any more blown away by the video quality. I now watch MLB.TV on the highest feed (1.2 MB) at full screen. My wife and I are blown away by the fact that we can clearly read the speed of the pitch from across the room, some 12 to 15 feet away. The D … Read more

Glad I bought this

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:01 GMT

Glad I bought this

Rich3077 from Detroit

I have been using this monitor for about a week now, powered via an ATI HD 4870. At first I was disappointed because the monitor would not go into standby mode and I was considering returning it. Because I like the monitor otherwise I tried everything I could think of to resolve this issue. Its confusing because some of the reviews here state that you can put it in PC mode, but I had no such option on the menu. Finally Google paid off and I found a VERY LONG discussion thread about THIS monitor. (The newer model) On about page 10 or so of the topic someone figured out on accident that if you hook up a different HDMI input, such as a PS3 or DVD with HDMI, the menu to change it to PC mode magically appears. Once its switched to PC mode you can disconnect the other HDMI input and the setting will remain. For some reason the menu is already there for a few people using certain video cards. Once the standby mode glitch is solved then this is the perfect gaming monitor. If you would like to … Read more