Thanx to Aikimox I have some more nice backgrounds. I decided to use one of them to post some better more carefully taken shots exemplifying why I lusted after it before it was available, went thru the misery of the delays, and you probably will lust after it too if you're not one of the few that have one...
Normally, we digital photographers post process our RAWs to try to best reproduce the original, if we're not trying to enhance it in an artful fashion. So how do you think it performs at extreme angles? ...try it w/your laptop screen.
The Original JPG:
The above JPG displayed in Windows Photo Viewer, and photographs taken of the screen face on, and 45-ish degree angles:
(all photos share the same Lightroom treatment aside from slight variation in exposure compensation. The display was operating in 8-bit mode, AdobeRGB Gamut)
....any non-DC2 owner's dare try the same?
... hehehe, ok, that's not fair. I'm absolutely thrilled with my choice to spend over 100% more than I originally budgeted when I 1st started looking for a great laptop to do PP work on. With thanx going to the great folks here from where I either learned everything I needed to to make the right decision, or just learned what I did not know and sought it out.
Reply 1 : See why you should lust after a DC2 equipped HP laptop
That's gotta be some of the best angles i've ever seen on a LCD. Only plasma comes close to that. But i have to see with my own eyes to believe. Now let's just hope they sealed it properly, it would be a pity to get dust specks inside such a nice screen. My dv9000 has acquired several large-ish dots of dust... But i don't have a clean room environment to take apart the LCD, i'd just end up with more dust inside if i do that. 
Now let's just hope they sealed it properly, it would be a pity to get dust specks inside such a nice screen. My dv9000 has acquired several large-ish dots of dust... But i don't have a clean room environment to take apart the LCD, i'd just end up with more dust inside if i do that. Reply 2 : See why you should lust after a DC2 equipped HP laptop
Thanks, M8!
I envy your camera
Will you be willing to make a few shots for the review that I'm working on?
I envy your camera
Will you be willing to make a few shots for the review that I'm working on?
Reply 3 : See why you should lust after a DC2 equipped HP laptop
Indeed. Just PM me some ideas. Too bad I can't do the comparo to your M17x tho.
Reply 4 : See why you should lust after a DC2 equipped HP laptop
wow that is an amazing screen
the entire laptop makes my dv7 look like garbage
the entire laptop makes my dv7 look like garbage
Reply 5 : See why you should lust after a DC2 equipped HP laptop
I'll just go ahead and say that screen is absurdly colorful. I want one @_@
Reply 6 : See why you should lust after a DC2 equipped HP laptop
I want one of the 15" ones in a desktop form! In terms of DPI and colors, all desktop LCDs are crap by comparison.
HP could make bucketloads of money if they sold that in desktop form.
HP could make bucketloads of money if they sold that in desktop form.
Reply 7 : See why you should lust after a DC2 equipped HP laptop
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Originally Posted by m8o 
So how do you think it performs at extreme angles? ...try it w/your laptop screen.
....any non-DC2 owner's dare try the same? ... hehehe, ok, that's not fair. |
Meet the HP WVA (Wide Viewing Angle) display from 2006. 
Couple more there: IMAG0057 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Sorry about the image quality, taken with my mobile phone and these office lights are really hard to avoid. So I put the laptop under the table and that kills the image quality in camera.
Reply 8 : See why you should lust after a DC2 equipped HP laptop
I'm duly impressed! Especially from the view from the bottom. 
Wow, can't be a straight-up TN display. The mid-2000's were definitely a high period as far as screens in laptops is concerned IMO; non of this wide-screen low vertical rez crap of today and a high rez option was often available in most everything.
I'm really happy you posted that. I wasn't aware there was another screen was that capable in that sense (old IBM and other older now-outdated-and-underpowered IPS based laptops notwithstanding). My path to getting the 8740w had taken me thru a period where I was scanning eBay for 8710w and 8730w machines. Then discovered the IPS based 8740w was coming. Had I known that type of screen was available in a particular model [tbd] that would definitely have made my radar screen. (do you know, is that a 8-bit hardware screen or 6-bit? Just for my edification.)
Actually, in that light I'm lucky I didn't know. I would have missed out on all else the 8740w and DC2 gives me.
Wow, can't be a straight-up TN display. The mid-2000's were definitely a high period as far as screens in laptops is concerned IMO; non of this wide-screen low vertical rez crap of today and a high rez option was often available in most everything. I'm really happy you posted that. I wasn't aware there was another screen was that capable in that sense (old IBM and other older now-outdated-and-underpowered IPS based laptops notwithstanding). My path to getting the 8740w had taken me thru a period where I was scanning eBay for 8710w and 8730w machines. Then discovered the IPS based 8740w was coming. Had I known that type of screen was available in a particular model [tbd] that would definitely have made my radar screen. (do you know, is that a 8-bit hardware screen or 6-bit? Just for my edification.)
Actually, in that light I'm lucky I didn't know. I would have missed out on all else the 8740w and DC2 gives me.
Reply 9 : See why you should lust after a DC2 equipped HP laptop
m8o MORE PICS PLEASE!!!
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