DellP Series 27-Inch FHD 1080p Screen Led-Lit Monitor (P2719H), BlackEPEAT

Shopping for this monitor my criteria were: 27 inch screen, sits low (close to the desk surface) and decent text. I got all three. The stand is adjustable in height. I have it all the way down, putting the bottom of the screen about 2.4 inches above the desk surface. If you don’t wear bifocal or trifocal glasses you might wonder why I want it low. This way I don’t have to tip my head back much. The screen can be raised to put the bottom 7.6 inches above the desk surface. The screen can also be rotated 90 degrees to give a portrait display. This is probably for programmers who have more than one screen, and want to see lots of lines of code at once. I suppose there are other uses. I won’t be using it in the portrait position. All stand adjustments (height, rotation, and tilt) are easy and solid. The whole product is solidly built in every way.I have one gripe. There is only one 8 ½ by 11 sheet of paper for documentation, and it is all pictures, no words. The User Guide is on the internet but apparently Amazon does not want me to give you the link. How hard would it be for them to tell me that? It actually took me a while to find it. So after I had it all set up I looked at the user guide. It says I was supposed to power down the computer and unplug it before hooking up the monitor. I didn’t do any of that and it worked fine.The screen looks good from viewing angles between -45 to +45 degrees. Beyond that it gets a bit dim.Putting it together with the one sheet of pictures was simple, fast, and easy. No tools required.There are five buttons on the bottom edge of the monitor, on the right side. The one on the far right (I’ll call it #5) is power. The one next (#4) to it brings up a little menu. Then, pressing #3 gives a menu. From there it is pretty intuitive so I’ll stop with the guided tour.I thought the settings were pretty good out of the box. I turned down the brightness a bit, turned up the sharpness a bit, checked out the color settings and left them on Standard, and fiddled with the left-right, up-down centering to be sure it was correct.I don’t play a lot of games and I don’t have sixteen other monitors to compare it with, so I can’t make some of the comments the other reviewers have made along those lines. It is not designed for games, does not have speakers, and is not touch screen. You know that from reading the product description.

Got this a couple weeks ago, and it's been just what I wanted. It's bright, clear, and the response time is definitely good enough for the level of gaming I do (I'm not a pro by any stretch). Overall, I would definitely buy this again.I didn't see this in any reviews or anything, and it doesn't matter for me in my use-case, but it does have vertical, rather than horizontal polarization. I discovered that by accident. Normally in my experience, you can see monitors if you're wearing polarized sunglasses, but if you tilt your head, they go black because the polarization then combines to block your view. On this monitor, the polarization is aligned by default so that you can only see if you tilt your head, if you're wearing sunglasses. That would only be important in a very few applications, and if you have no idea what I'm talking about, don't worry about it because it doesn't apply to you.

This monitor comes with a display port (DP) to display port wire. It does not come with an HDMI wire.Also, this monitor does not support daisy chaining by DP to other monitors.I am using this with a Dell docking station that only has 1 HDMI port and 1 Mini DP port. I have two of these monitors. One is plugged in to the HDMI slot and works fine. The one that was plugged into the Mini DP slot had problems where when the computer went to sleep, the monitor would flicker on and off repeatedly searching for a signal. This is a known issue with Dell.I switched to using a Mini DP to HDMI wire for the second monitor and now I don't have any problems.Conclusion--if you are going to get this monitor, plan to only connect it via HDMI to avoid any issues.

The monitor itself has been fine.If you purchase this item from a third party seller on Amazon, Dell will likely not honor the warranty.Even if you look up its service tag on Dells own site and it shows a 3 year warranty with 2.5 years remaining.Basically if you don't provide the address Dell shipped the monitor to, or it wasn't shipped to an "authorized Dell reseller" then they deem it ineligible.I have never had this issue before, having handled dozens of Dell warranty replacements.We typically have 1-2% of our Dell monitors that need warranty work.So if you have an issue past the sellers return period, you're out of luck. The large seller I purchased from offered a whopping $20 partial refund for a $250 monitor that is unusable after 5 months.