fpd2485w tft lcd monitor price

I purchased this monitor 11/2007. In 2/2008, the monitor completely died. I called Gateway and they refused to send me a new monitor. they would only send a refurb. (customer service reps were nasty, arrogant, and rude, when you do not agree with them they hang up on you).

The second monitor did not work right out of the box, none of the touch control buttons lit up and they did not work, I had no way to turn the monitor on or off.

They sent a third refurb unit, and again, right out of the box, the backlight kept turning off, I would have to cycle the power several times to get it to come back on and then it would only stay on for a few seconds. Tech support said they would take back the monitor and the speaker bar add-on (since the speaker only worked on this one monitor) and refund my money for both. He transferred me to customer service to process the refund and returns and they changed there mind and said they will not give a refund. When I asked how long this was going to go on, there reply was "until I get a unit the works"

In all fairness, this is a nice monitor, but three bad ones in a row, and there lack of proper customer service, is enough to make anyone think twice!

Thanks, Jarred, for the informed review. A selfish request--could you review the current Dell, Apple, and Samsung 23/24" LCDs? A friend is in the market in the next couple months and I am buying before the end of the year. From what little looking I"ve done, these seem to be the best candidates so far for hobbyist photo work (and movie viewing, game playing, web browsing...).

I purchased this monitor over the weekend at a local Best Buy. Here are my results from calibrating with the Pantone/greatagmacbeth Eye-One Display 2 colorimeter using the Eye-One Match 3.6.1 software.

Not sure what more could be done to fine tune the display. If you go to the user settings you can adjust RGB colors, but being an LCD it doesn"t really make a difference whether you do that on the LCD or in the Windows drivers. They both end up accomplishing the same thing. I have never looked into "hidden service menus" on any of the LCDs I"ve used, I"m sorry to say.

Thank you for the review. I"m very pleased that you will be reviewing monitors again. In your future LCD display reviews, I suggest that you identify the manufacturer and model of LCD panel in the monitor, and continue to identify the manufacturer and model of the signal processing chipset (you did in this review), as in Kristopher"s November, 2003 "Dell UltraSharp 2001FP Preview: Gaming LCDs for the Masses" review. Finding information about an LCD monitor"s panel and chipset is difficult at best. I suspect that many enthusiasts would often consider the panel type, brand and model when choosing monitors, if that information was readily available. In fact, I frequently read discussions about the merits of S-IPS panels over S-PVA panels. Additionally, would you also alert readers when a monitor manufacturer uses different types of panels in the same monitor, i.e., model. This practice is disconcerting; Consumers simply can"t be certain that the specific model that they purchase will have a specific panel. I believe that a vocal outcry would eliminate or substantially reduce this practice.

Currently, the FPD2485W is listed for $680 on the Gateway web site, while the regular price of the Dell 2407WFP is $750. Dell routinely runs sales, however, and the 2407WFP is available for $675 right now. You basically end up with two very similar monitors that cost about the same amount, although the Dell comes with a three-year warranty included making it a slightly better deal.

The problem is, darker blacks are good but brighter whites are only good up to a certain point. Anything above 400 cd/m 2 is far too bright in our opinion. As you can see, the black levels of both the Gateway and Dell LCD are equal, /quote:

Greta monitor for this price. really high quality display with tons of features. has a ton of multiple different inputs so you can hook up other things besides your like video game console, cable,etc. it also come with a sound bar for free which is a nice extar but i have lots of white noise once i turn the volume up not even half way and it becomes annoying which makes it more or less useless for me might be a defect with mine. but u didnt buy a monitor for the sound quality of its optional speakers u bough it for the monitor itself. and this is one hell of a monitor no noticeable ghosting in gaming and the mother is bright and hd videos look fantastic on it. the mother can look very good but colors are defintly off a bit but with a little tweaking it will look great. 5 stars from me came with no dead pixels and i have to real complaints although having a hdmi input would have nice. This is a steal at 300$ buy it before it run out :D

Thanks for your thoughts Fugger, much apprecaited! I bought this monitor from a local electronics chain store (Best Buy) for $589. Although the monitor usually sells for about $679 since I bought mine the first day Best Buy had them I got a decent discount! Although they could be found cheaper online since this was an expensive purchase for me I just felt better buying it in person. Plus if there was any major issues (dead pixels, backlight messed up, etc..) I could just return for replacment at no cost!

This was my first large LCD monitor (21" was my last monitor) so I very excited about getting it! Although I am not an expert when it comes to monitors I was very impressed with it. My monitor had no dead pixels at all and the backlighting was wonderful compared to any monitor I"ve ever owned before. There is a small amount of backlight bleed at each corner but this only happens when first starting the monitor up aftering being shut down for a length of time. After that there is next to no backlight bleed.

One thing that was important to me was how well the monitor produced black backgrounds (sometimes monitors will not be able to product even black color throughout the screen). Well when I set the background image to all black the coloring is very even with no light spots or darker spots.

As I said above I am no expert when it comes to analysing monitors but there doesn"t seem to be any ghosting whem gaming, even when action is fast paced (like in GTR2 or some FPS). I use a DVI connetion and the color reproduction is decent. It could probably be much better but I"ve yet to learn how to correclty adjust the monitor using the monitors settings (contrast, brightness, gama).

Last but not least, the monitors adjustment controls are fairly easy to use and play with (except it takes a bit o get used to the touch buttons). For a regular computer gamer I think this monitor is well worth the price as it is quite a bit cheaper than most 24" LCD monitors. Like wa77ss said though I would probably rather have the Dell 24" LCD but was hesitant to purchase such a large and expensive monitor onlinen or through e-bay because if you ever had an issue shipping the darn thing back to the vendor is very expensive!

Lastly the input lag: I dont have a decent camera to test it effectively, but there is a noticeable difference between the ZR24W and the PA246Q. I know this because I watch all sorts of media on my PC and I was annoyed at the lack of exact lip sync for a long time on my old monitor. When I got the ZR24W, it was nearly perfect and fixed. With the Asus its pretty much similar to my old S-PVA display in terms of input lag. The FPD2485W was reviewed and rated at average of 18MS so you know. I do not believe the PA246Q is worse though in this regard, as im able to play shooters and other games just fine.

Description: Screen Size: 23" - Screen Type: TFT LED - Resolution: 1920x1080 - Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - Contrast Ratio: 100,000,000:1 - Viewing Angle: 178* - I/O Interfaces: VGA, DVI - Enclosure Color: Black

Description: Screen Size: 23" - Screen Type: LCD - Screen Enhancements: LED Backlit - Resolution: 1920x1080 - Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - Contrast Ratio: 12,000,000:1 - Viewing Angle: 170* - I/O Interfaces: HDMI, VGA, DVI - Enclosure Color: Black

Description: Screen Size: 21.5" - Screen Type: LCD - Screen Enhancements: LED Backlit - Resolution: 1920x1080 - Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - Contrast Ratio: 100,000,000:1 - Viewing Angle: 90* - Monitor Features: Built-In Speaker - I/O Interfaces: VGA, DVI

Description: Screen Size: 30" - Screen Type: TFT LCD - Screen Enhancements: Anti-Glare - Resolution: 2560x1600 - Aspect Ratio: 16:10 - Viewing Angle: 178* - Enclosure Color: Black

Description: Screen Size: 21.5" - Screen Type: TFT LED - Screen Enhancements: Anti-Glare, Widescreen - Resolution: 1920x1080 - Contrast Ratio: 100,000,000:1 - Viewing Angle: 178* - I/O Interfaces: VGA - Enclosure Color: Black

Description: Screen Size: 19" - Screen Type: TFT LCD - Screen Enhancements: Anti-Glare - Resolution: 1440x900 - Aspect Ratio: 16:10 - Contrast Ratio: 700:1 - Viewing Angle: 150* - Enclosure Color: Black

Description: Screen Size: 21.5" - Screen Type: LCD - Screen Enhancements: LED Backlit - Resolution: 1920x1080 - Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - Contrast Ratio: 12,000,000:1 - Viewing Angle: 170* - I/O Interfaces: VGA, DVI - Enclosure Color: Black

Description: Screen Size: 21.5" - Screen Type: TFT LED - Resolution: 1920x1080 - Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - Contrast Ratio: 100,000,000:1 - Viewing Angle: 178* - I/O Interfaces: VGA, DVI - Enclosure Color: Black

Description: Screen Size: 20" - Screen Type: LCD - Screen Enhancements: LED Backlit - Resolution: 1440x960, 1600x900 - Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - Contrast Ratio: 12,000,000:1 - Viewing Angle: 170* - Monitor Features: Built-In Speaker - I/O Interfaces: VGA, DVI - Enclosure Color: Black

Description: Screen Size: 19" - Screen Type: LCD - Screen Enhancements: OSD (On Screen Display), Anti-Glare - Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - Contrast Ratio: 700:1 - I/O Interfaces: D-Sub, VGA

Description: Screen Size: 24" - Screen Type: LCD - Screen Enhancements: Anti-Glare, Widescreen - Resolution: 1280x720 - Contrast Ratio: 1,000:1 - I/O Interfaces: Component, S-Video, Composite, USB 2.0, DVI - Enclosure Color: Black

Description: Screen Size: 24" - Screen Type: TFT LED - Screen Enhancements: Anti-Glare, Widescreen - Resolution: 1920x1080 - Contrast Ratio: 100,000,000:1 - Viewing Angle: 170* - I/O Interfaces: VGA - Enclosure Color: Black

Description: Screen Size: 23" - Screen Type: LCD - Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - Contrast Ratio: 40,000:1 - Viewing Angle: 160* - I/O Interfaces: D-Sub, HDMI, VGA - Enclosure Color: Black

Description: Screen Size: 24" - Screen Type: LCD - Screen Enhancements: LED Backlit - Resolution: 1920x1080 - Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - Contrast Ratio: 12,000,000:1 - Viewing Angle: 170* - I/O Interfaces: HDMI, VGA, DVI - Enclosure Color: Black

Description: Screen Size: 27" - Screen Type: TFT LED - Screen Enhancements: Anti-Glare, Widescreen - Resolution: 1920x1080 - Contrast Ratio: 100,000,000:1 - Viewing Angle: 178* - I/O Interfaces: VGA - Enclosure Color: Black

Description: Screen Size: 21.5" - Screen Type: LCD - Resolution: 1920x1080 - Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - Contrast Ratio: 5,000:1 - Viewing Angle: 90* - Monitor Features: Wall-Mounted - I/O Interfaces: VGA, DVI - Enclosure Color: Black

Description: Screen Size: 22" - Screen Type: LCD - Screen Enhancements: Anti-Glare, Widescreen - Contrast Ratio: 700:1 - Viewing Angle: 160* - I/O Interfaces: Composite, S-Video, Component, USB 2.0, VGA, DVI - Enclosure Color: Black - Weight (lb): 14.00

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Condition: Open box, Manufacturer Warranty: None, Color: Black, Features: Widescreen, Country/Region of Manufacture: China, UPC: 0827103060980, Brand: Gateway, Display Type: LCD, Screen Size: 21 in, Contrast Ratio: 1000:1, Model: FPD2185W, MPN: FPD2185W, Aspect Ratio: 16:10