DELL ULTRASHARP 2208WFP 22-inch Widescreen Premium LCD Monitor | 
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| Brand: Dell Ultrasharp LCD Monitor
Category: Personal Computer
List Price: $339.00
Buy New: $279.99
You Save: $59.01 (17%)
New (2) from $279.99
Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 507
Media: Electronics
Model: 2208wfp
UPC: 000012605613
EAN: 0000012605613
ASIN: B0019D2PYG
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Dell UltraSharp Advantage Adjusts to fit your optimal viewing position allowing you to tilt, swivel, pivot, raise and lower with little effort. | | • | 22-inch screen w/ 1680x1050 Resolution. HD Ready! | | • | 1000:1 Contrast Ratio, 5ms Response Time | | • | USB ports for added convenience. | | • | 3-Year Warraty from Dell |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Panel PerformanceAmazing 1680 x 1050 native resolution, large 22-inch display, blazing fast 5 ms response time, and incredible 1000:1 contrast ratio lets you view images, documents, graphics and video with extreme detail, vivid color and fluid motion.Pure, Natural ColorThe UltraSharp 2208WFP features Dell TrueColor Technology for better color representation resulting in deeper, more vibrant reds, greens and blues. With a dynamic contrast ratio of 1000:1 blacks are darker and vibrant colors pop off the screen for life-like movies, photos and games.Wide Screen, Slim PanelWidescreen means cinema-style viewing and an improved overall multimedia experience. Widescreen provides you with more screen real estate so you can get more stuff on your screen at once while the flat panel design makes sure not to take up very much space on your desktop. Whether you are working or playing, wider and flatter truly is better.The UltraSharp AdvantageUltraSharp monitors are designed to fit just about any situation and give you a comfortable viewing experience. Adjust the height, tilt the panel forward and backward, swivel it left-to-right, even pivot from landscape mode to portrait mode. The UltraSharp 2208WFP adjusts to fit your optimal viewing position. Four convenient USB 2.0 ports help you avoid the hassle of running out of USB ports on your PC or reaching around the back to access them.The Dell AdvantageDell monitors are sleek, with ultra-thin bezels so they look great in any environment. More than just a pretty face, Dell monitors are designed and built to our highest standards, providing the quality and reliability you expect when you see the Dell logo. Each has been exhaustively tested and comes backed by a Dell Limited Warranty, so you can rest assured your investment is protected. The performance of the UltraSharp 2208WFP is one more reason why Dell is the worlds number one source for flat-panel monitors.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Reasonably priced, but only reasonable quality August 26, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I'm also going to have to disagree with Mr Rehs here. Even though the Dell 2208WFP isn't a terrible monitor, it's really not great either.
As some of you may know, nearly all 22" TFT monitors are TN panels. This is the cheapest type of panel, and the limitations are quite apparent at 22" and up. The main problem with this product is the viewing angle, which is atrocious. You have to look at it dead centre. Any angling up, down or to the side will see a change in colouration, normally showing a slight pink/red colour at the edges of the screen. It wasn't particularly sharp [in spite of the 'Ultrasharp' tag] and the colours could have looked fresher. Calibration was also a real pain and I struggled for days to get it to look good, eventually giving up.
This would be fine as a secondary monitor or for a cheap and cheerful option....but if you want high quality, great colours and sharpness look elsewhere.
 Impossible to manage, awful performance 2208wfp August 22, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
It seems that Mr. W.Rehs's review refers to a quite different monitor than mine.
In my opinion this is a non compliant monitor which never should have sold, even less under "Ultrasharp" denomination.
Monitor is impossible to manage. Hue goes from green to pink. Black is never black and text always have a coloured or white "halo". You can struggle as much as you can trying to get a decent setup. Forget it: you'll never succeed.
Brigtness is uneven all across the screen, showing different patches, and luminosity is consistently higher in the inferior third (or half) than in the superior part.
And this is not my unit. If you want more opinions please have a look at Dell's forums.
I have had very different monitors, both CRTs and LCDs and I have liked them more or less, but never felt hate for them. This is my feeling with this one. I will send it back tomorrow.
 DELL ULTRASHARP 2208WFP July 4, 2008
15 out of 18 found this review helpful
I am totally satisfied with the purchase of this product. Having done alot of research looking for the 22" widescreen LCD monitor that would both suit my needs and price range I am happy to report this one exceeded my expectations.
Installation was literally a snap. Mounting the LCD on the stand is a very simple process. You have the ability to adjust height up and down and tilt along with being able to swivel side to side. The stand is sturdy and well built. It comes with the needed cables to use either a VGA or DVI-I connection to your Video card. I am presently using a EVGA 7600 GS 512MB that has either connection available and I elected the DVI which offers better performance due to no digital to analog conversion requirement. Upon installation, WIN XP Pro only recognized a Standard monitor present so the driver disc provided by DELL was required, once the drivers were installed the DELL 2208WFP was properly recognized by the OS. The monitor provides 4 USB 2.0 ports 2 on the side and 2 on the back, of course you utilize one of your computer ports to connect the monitors USB capabilitiies so your net gain is 3. I hooked up a webcam to one of the rear ports and it worked fine. I am using the native resolution for this monitor of 1680x1050. The video is awesome right out of the box, I found that myself personally I needed to make no video adjustments whatsoever. The picture is bright and vibrant. Text is sharp and clear. I am totally satisfied with this product, if there are any cons it would have nothing to do with monitor itself for it handles video superbly, but documentation provided is sparse, which is pretty much the trend these days, if you want to know more about the product or need help you'll basically need to go online for it, but anyone with basic knowledge should have no problem at all with the initial setup. This is a great monitor and well worth the money spent. I highly recommend it to anyone.
Please note: This monitor only has VGA and DVI input jacks, there is no Svideo, composite or component, so if you are hoping to use it as a TV monitor as well your most likely out of luck unless your Audio/Video receiver or cable box provides the necessary outputs which is unlikely.
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