I had some time and money to burn today, so I picked up a 25" Hannspree lcd monitor.

Hannspree? Yeah it's a name that rings no bell with me, I read up a little on the name before buying, overall consumer response seemed positive. The 2ms response time sold me, I thought what the hell and picked one up.

The color on this thing, right out of the box brand new is without a doubt the absolute farthest from calibration I've ever seen in a monitor at least since the mid-1990s, back when gamma controls on a PC were very uncommon. This monitor had such a bright blu-ish cast that was anything but pleasant. I will tell you, it was only after loading the supplied drivers, adjusting ICC profiles, using two third party color calibration software programs in tandem with the monitor's own controls was I able to tame the blue balance down enough to where I felt the desktop was semi-usable.

The video timings were so bad I had to keep asking myself if I was in fact using an LCD, because it sure looked like a 10 year old CRT monitor. No adjustment of the sharpness controls would make the text any more reasonable. It was only when I adjusted video timings in a 3rd party program specifically for the Hannsprees (the only way to do this, FYI; apparently I'm not the only one with such issues)

Now that I've got the timings and color somewhat decent, I'm not sitting here feeling like I got raped on this one. But I'm probably going to take this one back. Should have known better with such a goofy name. Hannspree. Fuck. I got pickle surprised.

Of course I'm a graphics guy, I'm a little sensitive to color and maybe notice when things are off when some wouldn't, but I think the color was so far off the mark anyone with eyesight would notice it.

I have 4 HP LCD monitors, all great color, resolution, should have stuck with that brand.

take it back, I was selling that brand and nothing but trouble, one that I did a rma on was under a 3yr warranty, I emailed them the invoice that I sold it to the customer and even though it was both manuf. and my selling within the warranty I had to go off on the phone support person, after getting the rma, it took a month and a half for them to send it back.

take it back bro.

Thanks for the info, I am gonna return this one. This is the worst LCD monitor I've ever used in terms of color. I've never had to make this much adjustment to just get a picture I would only rate a 7 out of 10.

I get that most TFT panels have limited viewing angles and dithered color tricks; at least the HPs look good with just minor tweaks. This thing has a blue tint so much I think something's wrong with it. Even when I have the center looking somewhat better, the edges shift colors like mad.

Never going to buy this Hannspree shit again!

hannspree's are horrible, get anything except them.

I have a nice acer 23.9 or something like that it's nice

I love my samsungs.

I haven't yet returned the monitor- believe me, that WILL happen before the end of the week. I rarely EVER return items I purchase but this thing is such an ugly unpolished piece of shit. How they could fucking stand behind something that handles color so horribly badly is beyond me.

Frollard, yes, I will likely trade it in for the Samsung I was looking at which also doubles as a TV. I have an older SyncMaster LCD which has done just fine. Or just get another HP although I've already got 4 of them, they're miles better than this garbage.

I know it's been said that most TFT monitors have commonly shared parts and aren't all that different, but this monitor is such a clusterfuck of bad engineering, I can't say I agree. All LCD monitors are definitely not built the same.

FUCK HANNSPREE, THEIR STUPID ASS COMPANY NAME, AND THEIR PIECE OF SHIT HARDWARE!!

*LOL*
if you put it out in the trash on pickup day, you will find your trash gone but not the monitor.*LOL*

Sounds like a cheap TN panel LCD. Your HPs are probably PVA panels (maybe IPS). Most LCDs need calibration out of box.

Pretty sure my HP's are TN panels, almost positive they are not IPS. I'm used to calibrating every monitor when I first get it (and every month or so). This thing... it would not calibrate. When I brought up the RGB patterns (circles within squares, where you adjust values), nothing I could do would even come remotely close for the blue. Everything had a sickly blue tint to it no matter what I di.

I returned the piece of shit Hannspree, traded it for a 23" Samsung LED Monitor/TV. Colors are much, much better. I wouldn't say it's miles better than the HP's I have, but it looks good and has better contrast, certainly better color and resolution than the ShitSpree! Lesson learned!