For me I didn't pay much attention to it as most of the manufacturer just put the number as huge as possible. IINM each manufacturer measure it under different test environment. For me seeing is believing. Color accuracy, panel type, dot pitch, brightness, dead pixel are among the factors that I consider greatly.

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Added on November 17, 2011, 7:39 pmFor professional use NEC is one of the best IPS manufacturer. However it is hard to come by anyone selling it here in Malaysia. And so it left us with Dell...

This post has been edited by Private.G: Nov 17 2011, 07:39 PM

You sure have a good eye. I had never experience any input lag before. Was thinking of getting U3011.

I understand what you mean. Guess I'm not a fighting game player so I guess i had never cared much about it. Now I'm just considering U3011 for it's huge screen estate. Hope games like Resident Evil 5 will look spectacular on it. It is supposed to have 5ms response time and ilm wondering whether i'll noticed any ghosting. Was planning to playback HD movie in 60FPS too.

Currently using acer H233h in which I'm very satisfied with and did not noticed any ghosting at all. The only complaint thus far is that the panel is glossy and the white color started to show some yellowish color.

I'm not worrying about gaming at that resolution. The only thing that I'm concerning is whether there will be some ghosting or artifact when gaming or watching movie on 60 FPS. The wide color gamut is irresistible.

Might be getting a refurbish set of U3011. Any comment about it?

The warranty is between me and the seller, which is what he said. Apparently I couldn't check for dead pixel as the seller will check it for me.

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Added on November 24, 2011, 11:24 pmBTW did anyone own or used U3011 before? Care to share your experience when watching movie under 2560x1600 resolution? How does the stretching looks? From what I read a full 1080p movie might have black bar and those that are in 2:35:1 ratio might have even taller black bar. I wonder will it affect the PQ much?

This post has been edited by Private.G: Nov 24 2011, 11:24 PM

Around 2.3k.

Woohoo~ Just collected my first IPS panel - Dell U3011 which was purchased from Kelvin bro.

At first thought the Dell U3011 is indeed H-U-G-E. It took up both of my passengers seat in my car. Unpacking it was very exciting and easy. It took up almost 1/4 of my desk space. Setting it up along side with my MBP 13' make my MBP looks miniature. Too bad I can't test it right now as I'm lacking a miniDP to DisplayPort cable. Will set it up tonight and see the difference. I am expecting the color to be on par, or even better than the MBP display

So exciting right now even by just staring at its black matte surface. Sexy!

Looking forward to post my mini-review about it

At last tested my U3011 with my MBP 2011 via miniDP to DP connection. I was really lucky as there is totally ZERO DEAD PIXEL. No issue with the backlight at all. My first impression was OMG! The color is much much vibrant in the monitor especially color grading whereby you can really see each different level of color. Color on the MBP display was great enough, but pair it up with U3011 and you got even vibrant color.

Regarding the screen estate, at first I was really afraid that I might not be able to adapt to it. But after using it for like, hmm, 1 minute I instantly get used to it. Having such huge screen estate really make multitasking easier.

If you had read on other site many often complaint about the strong AG coating or sparkle on the matte panel itself.. For me I didn't really noticing any of it.

Ok I guess that's enough for now. Watching HD movie on it now Feels awesome.

This post has been edited by Private.G: Dec 2 2011, 07:57 PM

My testing on U3011 is great thus far. Just watched 1080p Cowboy vs. Aliens (with video birate >10Mbps) in a fully darken room yesterday night and the effect was spectacular. Besides I also tried to playback different kind of video source with different quality just to see whether there is any real differences. Here's what I have come up with thus far.

For those whose intention of purchasing Dell U3011 was entertainment, i.e. watching movie, you would probably consider the following points which I had listed down below:

1. If most of your movies are DVD rip or BD rip with video bitrate < 2000Kbps, it will looks very worse on the screen. 720p with <5000Kbps will look nice only if you sit from a distance greater than 1m. Else you would noticed some blur. U3011 is able to upscale 1080p movie (with bitrate >10Mbps) to 1600p very nicely in this case and the picture looks amazing in every single aspect even when sitting at a distance of ~0.8m in my case.

2. When play back 1920x1080 resolution video on full screen mode, there is a black bar of 2cm each on the top and bottom. For me I make use of these black bar by displaying subtitle on them rather than overlay it on the video itself. So not a huge deal for me here. However, not all 1080p movies has 1:1 AR, most are encoded on weird AR (e.g. 1920x8xx). In these case these black bar will be much thicker. The 30' compensate it.

In short, U3011 will display your 1080p blu ray movie in its full glory. Movies which looks worst when upscaled on Full HD display will looks even worst on U3011.

Just my 2 cents.

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Added on December 3, 2011, 6:50 pmFirst of all what monitor panel are you using now? TN or IPS? If it's IPS and you haven't noticed any ghosting, then I would say Dell U2312HM will suit your needs nicely with additional RM100-150.


This post has been edited by Private.G: Dec 3 2011, 06:50 PM

All the current IPS panel are having slower response time than TN panel. Slow response time means you might experience some ghosting especially on fast paced game like FPS.

HDMI, DVI, and DP are all carrying digital video information, with the exception of HDMI and DP which can carry both video and audio signal at the same time. However, DP has higher bandwidth and it is the only one that can output 10-bit color on your 10-bit capable monitor. Of course, only workstation graphic card is able to support it. You also need an OS that support it as well.