The Basics (continued):
The next two images finally provide a look at the screen itself. You have twenty two inches of widescreen action, and as you can see it has a highly reflective surface. That isn't an image of a pirate flag be shown in the display, it is an actual pirate flag being reflected from the opposite wall. The display can be used in the traditional 16:10 configuration, and if you can find a practical reason to do so, it can also be setup in a 10:16 orientation, as well.
Overall the monitor has a very high end appeal. While it isn't outwardly labeled as such, it is an HP product, after all. This brings me to perhaps my biggest complaint about the monitor; the rather cheesy attempt at "debranding" it. The front bezel has two locations which originally identified this as an HP product, and the back of the monitor has one. Up front, an HP badge has been removed and replaced with a generic globe-like symbol, and the model number has been covered by a sticker that simply says "SVGA Color Display". The globe badge was applied crookedly and the "SVGA Color Display" label was peeling up, and both grabbed my attention right away. I simply threw the SVGA sticker away (revealing the model number "HP W2207"), and I re-applied the globe. I would have thrown both stickers away, but under the globe is merely an empty socket that looked even worse. On the back of the display is a large black sticker that covers the entire data label that you find on all monitors.
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Accessories:
The bundle of accessories with the 22 inch HP debranded DVI widescreen LCD monitor is definitely one of its strong points, as you get everything you could need to get up and running. In addition to a brief product guide, there is a 15-pin VGA cable, a DVI cable, a stereo audio cable, and a USB cable.
The cables are all of decent quality, and the only thing that caught my attention was the DVI cable since one end had a right angle connection. I had never seen something like this before, and initially assumed it must be for use on the monitor side of things; perhaps to compensate for a clearance issue. It actually wouldn't fit on the monitor side at all, so it was obviously used to connect to the test system's video card. While it didn't create any problems, it seemed rather unnecessary.
