Product Reviews for Dell E2009W 20" 1680 x 1050 WSXGA+ 1000:1 MS-Response Analog-VGA/Digital-DVI LCD Display w/ Tilt Adjustment Black 3YR

By David A. Smith072 from North Central NJ on 1/19/2011

I use the Dell E2009W 20" LCD Flat Panel Monitor for every day home desktop computer use from reading my emails to CAD/CAM Computer Assisted Design. The wide display screen gives me more space on screen for graphics, menus and application windows. The ultra crisp high resolution screen is easy to read text and shows fantastic graphics details in pictures and CAD drawings/renderings.However, the only thing I don't like about this monitor is the High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP), which causes the display screen to blink on and off at random. HDCP is a form of digital copy protection developed by Intel Corporation to prevent copying of digital audio and video content as it travels across DisplayPort, Digital Visual Interface (DVI). There has been a lot of complaints of this display screen blinking problem with all HDCP DVI monitors, not just Dell, on the Microsoft Windows, Macintosh and Linux OS forums, yet this problem has nothing to do with the application, OS or display drivers. Also, several monitor manufacturers have suggested to customers to replace their video graphics cards in there computers with ones that are HDCP compliant, which seems quite ridiculous when there's nothing really to copy protect that comes out from a computer's video graphics card. What next, the copyright laws will put good artists in hand cuffs because they can reproduce images too realistically?Anyway, getting back to my review, there is a way to minimize the random display screen blinking by switching your display screen resolution mode to generic VESA display screen mode in your computer's display configuration setup. The idea is to get away from the plug and play feature and select a display resolution mode that works correctly with the monitor's resolution specs.