Handling

With a rapid response time, a base that allows all possible movements (it pivots and is adjustable up and down...), open angles of vision and even colours: Dell has given us the screen that many have been waiting for.

As with the majority of the manufacturer's monitors, the 2209WA has a sober but elegant design. Dell did not go for integration of a Display Port or HDMI on this 22'' screen, leaving just VGA and DVI inputs, although it also acts as a four port USB hub, with two USB ports at the front and two more on the side.


Its excellent responsiveness means it can be forgiven for a minimum of ghosting on rapid movement. It will be perfectly at ease in all types of game, and it will handle office work with no problem at all. For those who don’t like to play on their own the 2209WA is also what they need, with an input lag of under 1 image. Multiplayer games will not suffer from any delay between action and reproduction on screen. Only one point is really lacking: 120 Hz--although that may well be along time coming for all monitors.

Colours


  At first the 2209WA doesn’t appear to suffer from any colour handling problems. However the sensor highlights a problem surrounding the handling of brightness in grey shades, in the gamma in other words. The deltaE reading suffers as a result and scores only 3.6. This isn’t bad but the best monitors go down below 2, and no imrovement is possible via the OSD

Films


As so often on monitors, the upscaling is very poor. On the 2209WA, the flickering is well contained but the low contrast ratio gives blacks that are grey more than anything else.

Because of this problem, the 2009WA will always be your last choice for watching movies, but for everything else, it's a great all-rounder.  Gamers have every reason to like it, for office work its flexibility is very practical and when on the right settings, this screen is perfect for working on your photos. Lets hope other eIPS screens appear on the market soon!