Dell Ultrasharp U2312HM 23 inch IPS LED Monitor

I have been looking at IPS monitors for some time, only affordable are Asus PA238Q and this. I bought this monitor for about 203£ including shipping from the merchant at Amazon.
It is a great monitor for everyday use. It is an e-IPS panel, which today is the lowest quality IPS panel. Still, I find this not a problem, since other IPS panels are at least twice as much expensive.

Picture Quality
Monitor has 16.7m colours, they are solid and saturated. Contrast is good. Black levels are not the best, especially when viewing from angle. Watching from a very short distances (70cm and less), it is possible to see between white pixels and this damaged the quality of the colour (this happens only with a very light colour, mostly white). It is great for gaming, people who say that IPS is not for gaming are wrong. At the moment I use this monitor for gaming on PS3, but in the future I will work with graphics applications (Photoshop etc) and I am sure it will perform well.

Performance
There is no ghosting, or at least no visible ghosting. Monitor finds connection instantly, turns into energy saving/sleeping mode as soon as I turn off the computer. I no longer have to check if the chair is in the right place, so I can see picture from the right angle. Monitor does not offer as good viewing angles as other type IPS panels, but it is fairly good (far better than TN).

There are no issues with tint or dead pixels with my panel, people used to complain about older Ultrasharp monitors which had slight tint issues.

Look of the monitor
Monitor looks great. It comes with buttons, not touch nonsense which many manufacturers use. The stand is top quality: functional and stylish. I was surprised how good the stand is. I heared people complaining about Ultrasharp coating, and it is indeed a problem when looking at white images. For gaming and movies watching, it is not a problem. For working and browsing (looking the the static white (or light) view) it is. It is a matte surface, I would much rather use this than glossy MAC screens which are a nightmare to work in the lit environment.

Connectivity
I am sure you can read it in the description. My issue is that there is no HDMI, I had to buy HDMI-DVI cable in order to connect my PS3 to the monitor. Monitor support HDCP, it is pretty much a standart these days. Monitor also came with DVI-DVI, VGA-VGA and one USB-something cables, official description does not mention them.

Conclusion
I have surfed a lot about this monitor, sadly there is no decent review of it. Some user impressions on youtube, some articles about specs. I was surprised that even one month after the release of the monitor no-one wrote a decent review. If you are reading my review in order to find out about whether or not you should buy this monitor, believe me, you will not be disappointed. Monitor also comes with Dell 3 Year Next Day replacement warranty, this is a major thumbs up for any device.

Only cons:
Coating produces ''sparkles'' (reason for -1 star)
Black levels can be darker
No HDMI

Great monitor!

I did a lot of research on monitors for my pc upgrade. I'm a hardcore gamer and on a side note, am enjoying Battlefield 3 & Skyrim a lot lol.

Anyway, as I am a gamer, I wanted to make sure the monitor I bought would be up to the task. However, I'm also a graphics and games designer, so it's important to have correct colour representation on the screen and a good size for managing complex scenes.

This monitor does it all!

Sleek and non-intrusive design. Easy to use U.I, fantastic picture and virtually no input lag. For those that don't know, input lag is a delay that is caused by a monitor between the graphics card sending the data to be displayed, and the monitor digesting and representing the data visually. Now, most monitors are around 30 m/s which is absolutely fine. Anything above 30 ms might be noticeable to some gamers, especially in fast paced games like UT or Quake. over 40ms and its going to be more noticeable and so on...

This monitor has an average input lag of, 0.8ms and a maximum of 30ms - meaning your always in a safe zone and 99% of the time your running at an amazingly fast feedback speed. Don't read too much into input lag, but its a factor because some cheaper monitors seem great until your missing a frame or so every other second (which could be the frame an enemy pops out by the way!). Saying that, just because a monitor is expensive, doesn't mean its a great monitor!

I've seen plenty of monitors for £300 and they aren't fit for anything but still images, even films can appear "laggy" - not good!

Anyway, that's enough scary lag shenanigans...

If your looking for a 22" - 24" monitor for under £200 that will do pretty much everything from hardcore gaming, to graphics design and also play consoles - its hard to find anything better than this. If your not as picky as me, you should find what your looking for, for about £150 ish

A down side, and one that doesn't affect performance is: No HDMI - this is a let down, as HDMI is pretty much a standard now! However, DELL (along with others) are trying to push a new standard called Display Port. There are no noticeable improvements to picture quality, its very similar to the HD-DVD vs. Blue Ray war. Anyway, to cut a long story short, you will need a graphics card that outputs display port, or hope its compatible with a cheap converter...otherwise its going to be around £80 for a converter!

I've got a graphics card that outputs Display Port so I'm ok - but its something that might be a deal breaker for others so I thought I'd mention it.

Anyway, great monitor. Difficult to find a competitor for the same price! Would have loved a 24" but its over £100 more so not really worth it.

This is a good quality, reasonably priced monitor. Picture is sharp and clear and the build quality is good. Stand is easy to attach and very adjustable. The bad news is the 3 year warranty is very hard to register with Dell. To do it on line you need a "service tag" - there isn't one. Amazon buy this item in bulk from a third party - in my case a dealer in Istambul, it seems, so no real surprise that Dell has no record of it. So it means hanging on the line to Dell and trying to pursuade them to register the warranty. Dell don't seem very keen on you buying from companies like Amazon who are described as "shelf stackers". Here is the advice from Dell on how to register the warranty:

Contact Dell Order Support for your country. The Order Support agent will need to submit a Fusion request to the CTS Retail OPS queue to get a Dell Order number attaching you to the monitor. They will need the following information to fill out the form -

Online Retail Store:
Purchase date from Online Retail Store:
Email
Name:
Shipping Address:
Phone Number:
Monitor Model:
Monitor 20 digit PPID number (on the back of the monitor)

Good luck - you may need it.