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A great monitor for those with lots of cash
Part monitor, part wall, Dell’s 3007WFP immediately sets itself apart by being huge. The step up to a 30in diagonal makes such a difference that it’ll change the way you use your PC.
Using a high-quality S-IPS panel, the 3007WFP delivers excellent colour reproduction with very wide viewing angles.
Despite its size, there’s no hint of colour shifting towards the edges of the screen. This makes it a superb display for working with applications such as Adobe Photoshop where colour accuracy is a must and plenty of space is needed for floating palettes.
When it comes to user controls, the 3007WFP is just about as minimal as it gets. Only three are present on the front panel, one of which is the power switch. The remaining two adjust the brightness up and down. All three are of the capacitive, touch-sensitive type and the power-switch is illuminated with a soft blue light.
There’s no on-screen menu, although the supplied software includes a plug-in that can control other display options from within your graphics driver in Windows.
Running at a resolution of 2,560x1,600 (WQXGA) over a DVI interface presents a problem to most graphics cards and you’ll need one that supports ‘dual link’ DVI to use this monitor properly.
If you’re using an AGP-based platform, then choice is limited to either an X1600 Pro-based card from ATI or a Geforce 7900GS from Nvidia.
A single DVI port is all that’s provided, there’s no VGA connector let alone component, composite and S-video sockets. This means you’ll miss out on features like picture-in-picture and can only connect to one PC.
The Dell 3007WFP is an outrageous monitor: It’s big enough to be a living-room display on an entertainment PC with enough resolution to display full 1080p video in a window. Under normal desktop use, you’ll soon forget what scrollbars are for and the ‘maximise window’ button will become a distant memory.
This article is part of a group test of
HDCP
Vista-ready TFT monitors.
See also
Samsung SM205BW
Samsung SM215TW
Sony MFM-HT205
Viewsonic VP233wb
The HDCP chain
How we tested the monitors
How HDCP works
Performance graphs and table of features can be read via our pdf downloads
Pros Massive size; high brightness; USB hub; flash card
slots; good viewing angles
Cons Requires dual-link graphics card; high power consumption;
slow response time
Overall The Dell 3007WFP is possibly the best monitor you can
connect to a PC as long as you have the right graphics card and deep pockets
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Power DVD does not work at full WQXGA (2560 x 1600) resolution
The Dell monitor is beautiful - no complaints at all, but, the DVD play software that came with my Dell Dimension 9100 , Cyberlink Power DVD, does not work correctly with WQXGA (2560 x 1600) resolution. I contacted Cyberlink Tech. Support and they confirmed my finding - I need to buy new DVD player software.
Posted by Mike Granlund, 09 Feb 2008