Eizo FlexScan S2410W widescreen LCD

Sharing the same design as the S2110W, Eizo’s S2410W offers a higher resolution of 1920 x 1200, just like the Dell. It too has a fast response time – just 8ms. We expected the S2410W to ace the quality tests, and it didn’t let us down.

Boasting the same 14-bit colour processing as the S2110W, colours are gloriously vivid and (perhaps purposefully) over-saturated. Just like its smaller brother, the saturation was vivid to the point of excess, but the OSD is comprehensive and – if you disable sRGB – you can adjust the colours to your heart’s content. There are saturation, gamma, gain and hue controls, and you can even fine-tune hue and saturation for individual colours.

Although professionals will buy it for its colour control, we found that even with some tweaking, the S2410W didn’t show our test images perfectly. Despite the claimed 1000:1 contrast ratio, dark areas and shadows didn’t quite retain the same level of detail as the S2110W. Of course, this is a minor quibble; it was still superior to the Dell.

While we can’t see many people spending this much money simply to play games, the S2410W put on a decent show for Far Cry. It might have failed our technical response-time test, but the overdrive circuit (which improves grey-to-grey response) worked in the real world, as we didn’t notice much blurring; only slight jittering was noticeable on fast mouse movements.

In our DVD test, the level of detail was impressive, although, again, it lost some in the blacks and dark greys of indoor scenes. Thanks to the 450cd/m2 brightness of the screen, outdoor scenes again have huge punch.

Features are almost identical to the S2110W: two DVI-I connectors, a fully adjustable stand with a large tilt range, a cable tidy at the back and the same touch-sensitive buttons on the front. Happily they come etched in white, which make them a lot easier to use than the near-invisible buttons on the S2110W.

Finally, a two-port USB hub means you can easily connect peripherals.
We were pleased to see the five-year onsite warranty, but its major problem comes in the form of the 24in Dell, which undercuts the S2410W by $1276. As it doesn’t cut corners on quality or features, it’s the clear winner for those who don’t need the Eizo’s colour controls.

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