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recently I've been in the market for a new monitor and when I saw the Delpy two-for-one 4h on sale for $180 I thought wow I've got to get this thing and then I read a review on EFT central about how good it was I thought this is the absolute best bargain of a lifetime however when I got the monitor in and I ran it through its paces there was one problem that really is going to hold me back from recommending this monitor so let's find out what it is so my history with monitors is not too complicated I'm very value for money orientated when it comes to buying a monitor and I currently own a 27-inch Korean panel which over a year has been serving the purposes as being a main desktop monitor very well however least recently I've been in the market for a new monitor especially as a backdrop monitor and a monitor for doing tutorials for you guys and so therefore it has to have anti-glare properties or a good AG coating and that's when I pulled the del out of the box I immediately noticed that the anti-glare coating on this monitor is very good does a fantastic job of blocking out pretty much all reflections not only that the bezel around it is also really good as well it doesn't reflect any light as well it's a nice matte black that is just non reflective pretty much also the OSD the buttons everything on this monitor was very good until I noticed one big problem and you guys probably want to know what that is so we'll get straight on to it and it's a thing called cross-hatching and I didn't even know what this problem was until I got this monitor and I'm before we get into this review I'm going to say that it could just be limited to my sample I'm not too sure but it's going to be the main reason what's the only reason why I'm going to be returning this monitor because for me I'm just getting OCD about it and it's becoming unbearable especially when I compare it side-by-side to the 27-inch Korean battle which is just absolutely gorgeous so what exactly is cross-hatching well I actually fully don't understand what it is yet there's not a lot of articles out there to explain what it is but in my understanding I think of it as pretty much stitching behind your picture and in this case when I have an hour orange backdrop it feels like someone's put like a green stitched linen cloth behind it and it's very annoying so anyway I'll quickly show you guys what the problem looks like with my camera even though I'm not sure if it'll pick it up fully so for this test I'm going to run the monitor at three different refresh rates with everything else in this room being static so the lighting the camera position and so what this means is if you can't pick it up on the camera you'll compare the images the three images side-by-side and if there's a difference then that essentially means there's a difference on the monitors side of things so now this is the first issue here this is 60 Hertz is that I can see this sort of sort of like this these slight green lines is faint green lines behind the orange image and if I do that on my Korean panel they just go away like they're not there on the Korean panel and so it means this is this problem is inherent to this panel and the funny thing is is if you overclock this monitor to 75 Hertz so if I put the refresh rate up to 75 Hertz then you'll see that essentially it's just like it just gets worse it's unbearable at 75 Hertz I mean I can clearly notice this cross-stitching issue at 75 Hertz though the ironic thing is is if we down clock this monitor so if we go to the refresh rate and we down clock it to 45 Hertz then the cross-hatching issue is just completely goes away like it's not even there so this is how the monitor should be at 60 Hertz in my opinion and so I don't know I think maybe something in my monitors being overworked and I don't know if this affects every other p24 one for H but anyway let's get back to the review so I'm not too sure if this cross-hatching problem is just limited to my monitor it may affect other Dell monitors I'm not too sure and I'm honestly not willing to try though if you do get a Dell monitor and it doesn't have a cross hatching problem then I can say that it's a fantastic monitor I mean the input lag was extremely low when I tested it against the Korean panel it beat that on both the DVI ports when I tested it against the Acer pata across both DVI ports it beat that as well so it was extremely good in terms of input lag extremely low also the response rates for an IPS panel man it was more responsive than my Korean panel and this is a great thing for gamers so for gamers looking for an IPS panel this thing is a win especially at a low price point so I'm kind of left in a sort of a dilemma where I wish this problem of cross-hatching never existed but looking at the monitor itself with the build quality what you're getting here is actually a pretty well built monitor that's also actually lightweight I'll surprised l have really nailed it when it comes to the build quality I love the bezel I love that it's this plastic it's lightweight but it's still sturdy and everything doesn't feel cheap at all it feels really good on this monitor the anti-glare coating that is pretty good as well I'll surprised I mean it just blocks out pretty much all the line when I was showing you guys the BIOS shots in my vlog I thought wow that's actually some of the best picture I've got from a monitor on my camera in my life so I was really pleased with that so if the connectivity del has done a pretty good job here as well you get a display port and a VGA port which the cables for those are included with the monitor and you also get a DVID port which the cable wasn't included though you do get a DVID adapter I believe also there is a power cable included and there's also three USB 2 ports as well so connectivity is pretty good on this monitor though you don't have an HDMI port so that's learn to keep in mind the on-screen display on this monitor as well as actually pretty good there's lots of options to choose from you've also got you can change the colors you can change the contrast you can change the brightness you can set it whether it can automatically swivel or not and you can also choose from a different range of presets there which are actually good I found warm to be the closest to a balanced picture in my opinion out of the colors though the standard was actually pretty good for gaming I actually preferred the standard profile picture to the actual gaming profile picture and all these selections don't make a difference to input lag as well so that's something to keep in mind also there's the option to select which input you like or you can just leave it to Auto which works fine as well the monitor also has an automatic power savings feature which will power down the monitor if it's not in use as well so then there's the mounting options the standard they include is quite frankly really good I was surprised it's lightweight and it also allows you to adjust the height you can adjust the swivel and you can adjust the tilt so it's a three-way adjustable stand and it does a fantastic job without making any noises and being easy to use also if you want to mount this via the VESA mounting you can do that as I've done this with here it's got the four screw holes which will just pretty much make it a breeze to mount on because it's a lightweight monitor and so I've got it actually mounted to a monitor stand at the moment and it's really good so in conclusion what can I say about the del P 2 4 1 4 H well I'm quite sad because if this cross-hatching problem didn't exist I would be a very happy customer I'd be over the moon I think it's a fantastic monitor just besides the cross-hatching issue I love the anti glare properties and I'm usually not an anti glare guy I'm usually a big fan of gloss and this anti glare is so good I'm really impressed with it does a great job of blocking out light but still keeping still giving out a good picture so del have done a good job there they've done a good job at the build quality I think it's a great on the dot they've done a good job with the actual panel implementation in the response times the input layers extremely low and for an IPS panel it's got some really good response times so kudos the dell for getting that right though there's just one problem and that's the cross-hatching and I don't know why this exists but I'm willing to bet that something in the monitor is being overworked at the native spec because when I down clocked it to 45 Hertz the problem didn't exist and so I'm going to not recommend this monitor unless you can get verified that it doesn't have this cross-hatching problem if you can verify that doesn't have the cross-hatching problem before you buy it then that can highly recommend this monitor as it's a great balance monitor for gaming for doing tutorials for having as a backdrop whatnot it's such a fantastic balance 1080p monitor and a 24 inch I think it's a great sweet spot if you're just sitting at a desk playing a lot of MOBA games playing a lot of RTS games as well and so I find 27 inch kind of to be a bit too big especially for mobile on a desk so anyway that's my review of the Dell p2 for H a P 2 for 1 for H if you have any questions or comments about this model then please drop a comment in the comment section below though unfortunately I will be returning this monitor and I don't think I'll be trying my luck again as I will just rather buy a trusty Korean monitor so anyways that's it from me today if you have any questions about the Dell P 2 for 1 for H then drop a comment in the comment section below and if you haven't read then hit that like button and subscribe to tech yes sit MMA and I will catch you guys in another tech video very soon oh yeah and there's also the facebook and twitter and also patron links there if you want to support the channel and keep it sponsor free anyway guys I'll catch you in another tech video very shortly peace out for now bye however I'm just going to go test it right now and see if it does block out or does reduce the blue light coming out of the monitor and the good thing about this test is even though it's like ghetto science it will give you accurate results as we see here because the camera is on the exact same exposure