2405fpw 24" review/observations/problems

Thought I would offer this up for those interested.

Mini review- WUXGA resolution(1920x1200) @60Hz either analog or digital. VGA, DVI, S-vid, composite, and component inputs. Very uniform lighting across the panel, no light leakage, and I've found only 1 stuck pixel. Very bright overall. Default contrast and brightness were both 50% and I turned both down, it's a light cannon. VGA works fine and looks great at the native resolution. There was some flickering and jittery text but a push of the "auto adjust" button clears that up. Haven't had to mess with the phase and clock adjustments. By the way, the auto adjust, phase and clock adjustments are only available under VGA operation and not DVI. I finally got DVI to work, well kinda, after some trouble shooting. If you are using an ATI card you'll most likely need to make sure that both "reduce DVI frequency" and "alternate dvi operation" are both unchecked in the ATI control panel. After that the DVI worked, well kinda ) but would remain blank until you are at the windows logon screen. Here is what I mean by "kinda worked" If you pull up the panel OSD it will show you what resolution the panel is currently running at and this proved to be accurate with VGA. Once I had DVI working and set to native resolution, the picture was very good but the text was blocky and pushed together and almost unreadable. Clear type and bigger text size all would not help. According the windows display settings and ATI control panel I was indeed at 1920x1200 @ 60Hz, but when I pulled up the panel's OSD it said the panel's resolution was 1536x1200. I took the resolution down to 1600x1200 and the OSD said it was 1200x1200. So for some reason I'm not getting the true resolution under DVI and I think this must be why the text looks so horrible. I'm using a couple year old 9700pro with the latest ATI display driver and control panel. So that's it. I'm back to using the display under VGA for now until I know the reason for the improper display w/ DVI. Could it be the transmitter chip? Do I need a more current graphics card? Otherwise the panel is fantastic and at that size, text is def. not too small to be a bother at the native resolution, provided you are actually getting the native resolution.

-Kevin