HP Pavilion 32-inch QHD Wide-Viewing Angle Display (V1M69AA#ABA)

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Ive been using 27-inch QHD (2560x1440) "Korean special" PLS/IPS monitors for years. Ive been happy with them for the most part, but occasionally I would do something with dark content that would demonstrate the core problems with IPS type displays. Unfortunately, IPS type panels have a relatively high black level floor and modest static contrast ratios. This makes black look glowy-grey and dark content muddy. Such is the case these last couple of weeks when Ive been trying to play Miscreated, a survival game with a full day/night cycle where night time is truly dark. I couldnt make out figures, shapes, or people very easily to the point where a friend of mine was standing right in front of me and wondering why I wasnt able to see him since he could see me plainly. With this problem in mind, I began my search for a VA type panel that would suit my needs. VA panels have much higher contrast ratios and lower black level floors than IPS or TN panels. The unfortunate problem today, however, is that VA panels have trailed off in popularity over the years as IPS has established itself as "the panel to have" in the performance space. This is unfortunate because it means there are not many choices available for someone in the market for a VA type display. I wanted a 27 or 28 inch QHD or 32 inch QFHD/UHD resolution panel. I did not find more than a handful of VA displays with these size/resolution configurations. The 32 inch UHD panel I found (Seiki Pro SM32UNP) had user reports of problems with the DisplayPort link dropping resolution down to lower levels during power save. The 27 inch QHD panel I found for whatever reason only listed a static contrast ratio of 1000:1 which is much lower than the 3000:1 typical of a modern VA panel. I was not willing to roll the dice with hundreds of dollars for either of those. Thankfully, the HP Pavilion 32 and HP Omen 32 are available. They both have modern VA panels inside of them. The only difference seems to be the maximum supported refresh rate being 75 Hz for the Omen and 60 Hz for the Pavilion. Their static contrast ratios are a proper 3000:1. The black levels are vastly improved over the PLS I was using, and the viewing angles are at least as good if not better despite this being a traditional weakness of VA compared to IPS. I can confirm that FreeSync is supported on the Pavilion 32 (V1M69AA#ABA), though the supported frequency range is only 48-60 Hz instead of 48-70 Hz as is reported by various lists of FreeSync monitors on the Internet. To enable FreeSync, you must put the monitor into "gaming mode". No printed manual seems to come with the monitor, but HP was kind enough to send me a PDF copy when I was asking questions before purchase. To enter "gaming mode", open the OSD, select "Main Menu" (the top icon), select "Color Control", select "Quick View", and select "Gaming". Once youve done this, FreeSync support will be reported by your display and if you have a supported AMD video card with recent drivers you will be able to enable FreeSync in whatever the replacement for Catalyst Control Center is called. That said, I cant say I can tell a difference so far between adaptive sync and no adaptive sync. Its possible I suppose that the 12 Hz range between the minimum and maximum refresh rate supported by the display is simply too small to do anything meaningful. --- To sum it up and add a few points --- Black levels: Very good. Better than either IPS or TN. Unless youre in the market for an OLED display, a VA panel like this is probably your ticket. Contrast ratios: Very good. Same as above more or less. Color: Pretty good. Orange and red are not as pronounced as they were on the PLS I was using, but its hard to say if the colors are undersaturated or they were just oversaturated on my last monitor. I have not attempted to calibrate the display with a USB color calibrator. Backlight flicker: Jury is still out on this one. I might have more eye strain which could possibly be due to a low-frequency PWM backlight, but I dont think that is the case. I took some pictures of my display at 1/2000 and 1/4000 shutter speed and everything looked lit and uniform. Ive not tested the driver circuit with my oscilloscope though, so this isnt definitive. The eye strain could be due to the larger pixels or even some external factor affecting me today. FreeSync: Supported. Put the monitor in "gaming mode" using the OSD and then enable it in your driver. Range is 48-60 Hz. Response time: Pretty good. I havent yet done anything that made me notice any ghosting or any other slow pixel response artifacts. Pixel density: Usable (over 90 PPI) but not ideal. A 32-inch panel at 2560x1440 has a pixel density of 91.8 PPI. This is the same as a 24-inch 1920x1080 panel. Its much lower than the 27-inch 2560x1440 panel I came from (108.8 PPI), a little bit lower than the 24-inch 1920x1200 panel I used years ago (94.3 PPI), and moderately lower than the 20.1" 1600x1200 panel I used a decade ago (99.5 PPI). Bezels: Modern and fairly thin. Theyre about half as thick as were the bezels on my first generation IPS Korean specials. Approximately half an inch wide on all four sides. Stand: Tilt-adjustable. No pivot. It seems solid compared to what Im used to with my previous Korean monitors, and having tilt adjustment is a welcome improvement. VESA mountable: Yes. Customer support told me it was not before purchase, but the manual reports that there is an adapter for a VESA mount, and I found that to be the case. The box includes the adapter. Included in the box: The box includes a power brick, power cable, DisplayPort cable, HDMI cable, stand, monitor, VESA adapter plate, and some papers about warranty and product notices. No manual that I saw.

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For a monitor of this size and price, I think it deserves 5 stars. Yes, I can lean into it and see the pixels, but I find the resolution pretty good. I am not much of a game player except for the occasion Civ 6 but that game looks great on this monitor to my eyes. And I appreciated that it is running at a native 2560 x 1440 @ 59 Hz as opposed to, for example, 1920 x 1080, which would be the same aspect ratio and you certainly could run it at that resolution, however, I would surmise the native resolution is best. In this case it is paired with a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB graphics card. In other words, the larger the monitor the more important to have a corresponding higher resolution count, or at least that is what I would expect. Sometimes I cant get back to the Windows 10 desktop after playing Civ 6, and in the that case I have to use the computer reset button. Windows 10 takes a hard reset pretty gracefully so before I play Civ 6 I tend to close most other programs incase I cant get back to the desktop but that is no fault of the monitor Yes, I rather like this monitor. The on off button I prefer to use instead of a screen saver setting, so I have learned to feel for that button on the back right lower corner and it is very easy to find and use after a little practice. The only adjustment I had to make was to turn down the intensity and I found the menu buttons are not intuitive to me, but after playing around a few minutes it was OK and it will be unlikely I will need to use the menu again anytime soon so I am not knocking points off for that. It also would support other aspect ratios such as 16 x 10, 4:3, and 5:4 but there is no incentive for me to try those aspect rations. My previous monitor was a 27" monitor that is more than average in size but this baby is significantly bigger in real estate. Those 5 inches make a lot of difference. The stand is sturdy and it tilts up and down with the right amount of resistance, nothing to complain about. I would buy it again. I did not install any drivers with Windows 10 for the graphics card or the monitor. Just plug and play.

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I have the Envy 32" as my monitor for my home gaming/office system, and I love the 1440p resolution at 60Hz. My wife (who works from home) decided to use my monitor as an external one day and instantly got hooked on the vast real estate. This Pavillion appears to use the same panel as my Envy, just without the added expense of built in speakers. It is a massive upgrade over the 24" Dell monitor she had been using and has pretty much eliminated the infinite scrolling she used to endure with her business apps. Just remember that it is a 32" monitor and will take up a fair amount of space on your desk.

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If your looking for the ultimate monitor for PC then this one is the right choice. I am a Web Designer and this screen is the best possible option for this field. Images look so life like your eyes will have a hard time telling it apart from real or a photo. This monitor would be great for gaming in 2K or watching 2K videos which are both mind blowing. The menu system is very easy to navigate threw and this monitor has as much options as a TV does and more. This monitor out of the box will blow your mind then up the brightness to 93 then the contrast to 90 you will not believe how much more crisp the images will look. Just check out my picture it even shows in that. You cannot go wrong with getting this monitor! I have had many many monitors and TVs and this one blows any of those out of the water. So get this monitor you will never regret it. It comes with HDMI cable, Display Port cable, a Vesa Mount adapter, and many more things that you never get with a monitor or TV usually. I had mine on my desk then decided to vesa mount it and it works great as you can see in the picture. I just cant stop loving this monitor gonna keep this one for a long time.

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This review is for Model# V1M69AA#ABA. Thats the 16:9 32" QHD with no speakers (Please separate products with their own reviews Amazon). Anyway, this monitor seriously rocks! Been gaming on a huge 4K TV @ 4K and my Single GTX 1070 sits at about 30fps playing most games at 4K. That said, on this beast I get to game at a smooth 70Hz @ 1440p, which looks really incredible! Was only expecting a 60Hz monitor so, BONUS lol. Also, if you have an AMD card it supports FreeSync. So if you dont mind 7ms response time (tv is usually around 50+ms!) Then at this price entering the realm of 1440p, you cannot go wrong! UPDATE: Been using daily since it arrived and noticed that there might be a display port issue or cheap cable? Once a day the monitor disconnects and resets, which can really suck in the middle of a game, especially if that game causes all kinds of crashing when your resolutions start cycling all over the place when the monitor reconnects. Maybe Ill give the HDMI a shot instead. LAST UPDATE! A while back after learning a lot about monitors, I learned how to test skipped frames due to a lack of processing power. This monitor sure does skip frames when set to 70hz. Dont know why that is an option when it cant keep up. So all in all for the low price this monitor is "decent" but cheap Korean monitors offer better bang for your buck! Also, the display port cable that comes with it was garbage and caused intermittent disconnects. Over and out!

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I received my monitor a couple days ago finally after almost two weeks of waiting. First off, it just be said, the monitor itself looks gorgeous. Its big and beautiful before you even switch it on. Coming to the quality of the display, its amazing for the most part. Colors look great, viewing angles are good even at close range. Alas, my unit was defective and arrived with a column of dead pixels in the middle of the screen. This completely ruined the experience for me and the thought of waiting a whole few weeks more to get a replacement is very disappointing. I wouldve expected better quality control before a unit is shipped out.

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Does not wake up properly as instructed by Mac Pro. If you put your Mac to sleep the monitor will wake up. However, it will not wake up when the Mac Pro is started up cold. You must manually wake up the monitor first. Then turn on the Mac. I have purchased over 100 Macs and many displays. I have never seen this problem before. An excellent display otherwise. Almost as good is my 11-year-old Apple 30” Cinema Display. Using with a 2012 Mac Pro. After 11 years, my 30-inch 11-year-old Apple Cinema Display konked out. My old Apple Cinema Display had 2560 x 1600 resolution. The HP Pavilion 32-inch QHD, has almost as good at 2560 x 1440 resolution. The Mac Pro has both the older DVI output and the newer Mini DisplayPort. I purchased a cable that goes from Apples Mini DisplayPort to the (Windows style) DisplayPort. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N5RY8D7/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I plugged everything in and my Mac Pro immediately and automatically recognized the display and it powered up in the maximum resolution of 2560 x 1440. The Mac OS also automatically configured Color output to match the HP Pavilion 32-inch QHD display. I never took the owners manual out of the shrink-wrap bag. For Mac users, youll find some of the aspects of this display to be A LITTLE “old school”. The power supply is the good old fashion “Black Brick” with the typical round barrel connector that Apple quit using 20 years ago. Nevertheless, (almost) everything works as before and the display is SPECTACULAR. Naturally, the very first thing I did was check for stuck or damaged pixels using PiXel Check 1.3. They were all perfect. My main disappointment is that you cannot adjust the brightness using your Mac keyboard, you have to use a couple of buttons on the back of the display to set brightness (how quaint). Also, there appears to be no automatic brightness changing for ambient lighting conditions. I was shocked to discover that Hewlett-Packard has no driver to add using the keyboard to adjust brightness functions back in. The HP display has no USB hub like Apple has. The display does go to sleep as programmed in the Apple power settings but not as cleanly as you might be used to with an Apple display. With the HP display, it simply goes to sleep when the video output shuts down as opposed to Apples method of sending a shutdown command. Anyway, it does go to sleep. In my situation, I am eagerly awaiting for Apple to start making professional desktop computers again. So this display was a life-saver to try and get a another year out of my Silver Tower Mac Pro, until the 2019 Mac Pro is available. (The black trash-can looking Mac Pro is NOT an option.) The HP display is blue LED free, (blue light is possibly unhealthy). When operating, there is a low brightness white LED in the lower right corner. This turns to a low brightness Orange color when the display is asleep. The short-comings I mentioned are minor. I recommend this display to anyone, including Mac users.

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I ordered a 32 inch flat QHD monitor (no speakers) on Sunday and it arrived on Tuesday morning (2 day shipping). Ive only used it for 3 days, so read this with that it in mind. A) The reason I was looking - I use a 2 year old laptop with 13.3" screen. Its perfect for travel, but its too tiny to run multiple things on the same screen. I wanted to use a large monitor as my primary screen for my laptop. B) What I wanted - In an ideal world, I was looking for something that would pivot vertically (like a lot of the Dell monitors), but I also wanted reasonable screen resolution for the sizes (eg: multiple 24" monitors would have been ok with 1080, but I wanted better if I went for a 27"+). I was willing to go for a larger monitor if the vertical length met my needs. This one meets my needs for now. Its 15-16"screen approx vertically. For this reason, I was attracted more to the 16:9 models over the 21:9 models. I was very interested in curved monitors, but for $100-400 price range, I could only find 1080p models (Samsung 27"). That wouldnt work for me. C) Concerns I had - 1) Can this monitor run using my 8 GB RAM and a minuscule integrated graphics card? - Yes. It uses the same level of RAM with either display - my laptops screen or the monitor (5.5-7.5GB RAM out of 8 GB). I will probably buy a more powerful desktop/laptop with a NVIDIA graphics card, but I can survive until I pick out the right one! 2) Will everything show up clearly for this screen size? - Yes. Ive had zero issues. Im glad I picked QHD. I dont game or anything, but Ive used browsers, MS Office, Netflix, YouTube. I think it works well. I can see that theres a difference between my laptops screen quality and this one, even though theyre both QHD. This one is brighter. 3) What about the viewing distance? Will it be too close to me? - I measured. I instinctively shifted between 2.5 feet for tiny stuff (instead of squinting), 3 feet (browsing on Chrome), and 4-6 feet (full screen video - Netflix). For the latter, I use bluetooth headphones so I can move around the whole room if I get bored while sitting in one place while watching TV. - I changed the display settings on Screen 2 (this monitor) to 125% zoom, so that I can view it from 3 feet easily. If I could change it to 110-115% that would be ideal for me, but no such setting exists on my laptop. 4) Will I have to move my head to look from end to end? (someone had mentioned this on some website about large monitors as a detractor) - No! My eyes can see everything just fine :) D) Misc not covered in product description: - there are buttons on the right rear side of the screen. Power, volume (+, - ) and theres one more button I cant remember. - Setup was easy. It came with a huge sheet of paper that showed in pictures exactly how to set it up. I dont have a DVD drive (tiny laptop!) so I downloaded the driver from the website. It took probably 15 mins totally including the super slow HP Assistants tortoise pace. - YOU NEED YOUR OWN USB cable (not provided), but it provides you with everything else (HDMI, etc). I found an ancient USB 1.1 (!!!!) cable in my home, hooked it up and hoped for the best. It worked, even with videos! I ordered a USB 3.0 cable right after that, which hasnt arrived yet. But, yea, any USB cable will do :) - The base is made of metal. I wasnt pleased with the picture because it looked plasticky there. But It looks fine in person! - Appearance: I liked it! Id have been happier with thinner bezel size but honestly, for under $400, I dont really mind! - Package: It arrived in the same box youd get if you went to the store. So if you have nosy neighbors, everyone knows what you bought. Also, theres that hand "hole" (for lack of better words) where you stick in your palm to carry it. That was tucked in when it was delivered. It didnt rain that day, but if I hadnt been at home and it had, Id have been unhappy that there was a "water input center" in the box.

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Excellent color, excellent black levels, great uniformity, no dead pixels, everything is as advertised. They also made some very smart engineering decisions. The ppi for 32 inch, and paired with the average graphics card is a sweet spot. The base is a heavy slab of metal, very sturdy. I wanted to be impressed with this purchase and I am! Update. Although the stand looks and feels substantial, and is very heavy, the weight distribution of the monitor is forward of the stand. how do I know this? I barely tapped the back of the monitor while reaching behind, and from the side, to plug another cord in. While putting light pressure on the port with my head around the side of the monitor, it fell flat on its face. I barely touched it...:( cracked screen

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The screen is amazing, and its a big one. Average bezel size. Power and option buttons are on the back of the monitor which I do appreciate. The stand is a very high quality, solid piece of metal. Pretty heavy though. Comes with displayport and hdmi cables in the box which saved me a trip to the store. I would definitely buy this monitor again. Everything is running great at 1440p with a 7970gt. Something to think about: the design of the stand makes cable management a little difficult. I dont think theres a way to run the cables down the stand without them being visible. Ive never been great at cable management anyway, so Im not taking any stars off for that. Someone with more experience can probably make it look better.

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