Dell slots in 24-inch widescreen S2409W LCD monitor

Just over a month after Dell added in a new 27-incher to its (admittedly unwieldy) LCD monitor family, along comes a sibling with a few less pixels and a much smaller price tag. The 24-inch widescreen S2409W checks in with a 1,920 x 1,080 panel, 300 cd/m2 brightness, 5-millisecond response time, 1,000:1 contrast ratio, VGA / DVI / HDMI sockets, and 160- / 170-degree viewing angles. The best part(s)? It's available for just $379, and it's shipping within one to two days. Hooray!

[Via Electronista]

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 30th 2008 2:31PM]

Anyone know what the difference between this one and the E248WFP? Thanks.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 3rd 2008 12:03PM]

Did anyone try this monitor? it looks good?

Thanks

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 5th 2008 11:52AM]

I convinced a good friend of mine to purchase one, and he and I played with it for a couple of hours. If you were to place this 16:9 monitor next to a 24" 16:10 widescreen, I'm sure you'd notice the height difference, but when you have only the S2409W in front of you, it's so big you don't even care.

The picture was awesome. Brightness was great. We didn't have an Xbox or anything to try out the full HD capabilities of the monitor, but especially now that the price is $349 (at the time of this reply), I'm pretty sure I'm going to get one for myself, and I'd recommend it to others.

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Monitors/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=320-7345

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 27th 2008 1:56AM]

I would buy it if only it had 1920x1200 instead of 1920x1080.

[BootlegZani Posted Sep 30th 2008 3:32PM]

You can now buy the E248WFP for $329 on sale and it is 1920 x 1080. I think I am still buying the 1920 x 1080 so I can play Xbox 360 on it without the extra bars.

[BootlegZani Posted Oct 2nd 2008 5:12PM]

I actually take this back. I ended up buying the Samsung T260HD. I needed the component inputs for my 360 and I looked at converters and those were running at $199 so it wasn't worth it. Plus the converter goes from component to VGA to HDMI which is garbage since it goes to analog and then converts it to digital.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 21st 2008 12:02PM]

We got a few in the office here. They are plenty fine for general office stuff but steer well clear if you are planning on using this for any graphics/photography/colour sensitive work!

Colours and contrast will change drastically with viewing angle, to the point of vertical grey bars on a white background in a photoshop image that only takes up 2/3 of the screen vertically can be visible at the top but near enough invisible at the bottom.