Customer Ratings & Reviews

The picture quality is crisp and beautifully clear

The HP 32f desktop monitor is a large, bright, clear screen monitor that will give you a nice large view of your workspace, although limitations on refresh rate and resolution somewhat hamper its otherwise beautiful look. The bezel is small, measuring maybe 0.5” around the top and sides (slightly larger at the bottom to accommodate branding), so there’s very little wasted space taken up by a large frame, maximizing your viewable area without sacrificing physical real estate. The screen is bright and text is clear in most of the modes. The screen is an IPS panel, thus there was zero change in the contrast or clarity at any angle I had it on the desk. Contrast ratio isn’t directly listed for this model on HP’s website (at the time of this review), but similar models have a ratio listed as 6,000,000:1 (which can be misleading, do your research on how those numbers fare out to reality). That said, the contrast was decent, I would have liked to see just a bit more black definition. The screen is also only 60Hz, so if you’re looking at doing gaming on this (even with the fact the monitor has a gaming mode) you’re going to find lag and blur over gaming-specific monitors which run a 144MHz (or higher) refresh rate. For everything else, desktop use, movies, etc., it will be fine. It is also a FHD monitor at 1080p, so HD movies streamed will look good (no UHD/4K, obviously). I found the resolution a little frustrating. At a 1920x1080 max resolution, it is the same resolution as the built-in screen on my 17” laptop, so moving content to the HP monitor is doing nothing more than blowing it up, enlarging it, meaning that comes with slight pixilation in all content. At a 32” FHD size, I would have liked to have seen it have a higher resolution, giving me more real estate with which to work (noting I’m using this to primarily to video and photo editing, with an occasional low-end Air Traffic Control game). Noting that smaller advertised HP monitors (the 27" for example) have resolutions around 2560x1440. Having more real estate via a higher resolution would have allowed for more tools to be on the screen in Photoshop and give me more area to edit photos. But that is where the FHD limitations, versus a 2K or 4K-compatible monitor come in to play. The monitor has (3) connections in the back – 2 HDMI and 1 VGA. The monitor can handle active connections to all 3 and you can swap inputs with the recessed control buttons hidden behind the front bezel. It does not, however, support Picture-in-Picture where you can have your primary computer on HDMI-1 and then PiP a streaming movie or other content on HDMI-2. With those number of connections a multi-view would have been nice. The buttons under the panel also give you access to the other normal controls – brightness, contrast, input, as well as several “Viewing Modes”. The viewing modes are changes to brightness and color temperature to match different use conditions. For example, there are presets for night, reading, gaming, movies, photo (viewing or editing), and a mode called HP Enhance+. There is also a specific “Low Blue Light” mode, which is becoming all the craze for use, especially at night, to avoid sleep disruption. Of all of the modes, all have their purpose but found the HP Enhance+ to be the worst mode. In it’s “medium” level, it pixelated text substantially, almost giving me a headache trying to figure out whether it was me, the computer, or the monitor. Other modes do a better job at the aliasing of text, giving it a smooth rendering. I don’t see what the use of a mode that intentionally pixelates the text is. Just choose another mode and you’ll be fine. In the end, this is a monitor that will look very good on a work desk and will work well for those using it as a primary monitor for day-to-day tasks at work or home. Gaming will be limited on it, and its lower resolution will hamper you in using this larger monitor as a device to secure more real estate in which to work within apps.

I cansee everything on this monitor. Great size .

very crisp and bright! Great value for the money.

Love this HP LED monitor. Great picture quality .

Bought on Black Friday for a great price and I’m pleased.

It is a nice size and the view is extremely clear.

Needed it for the large size, because I need large print

HAS A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE. AND A GREAT PRICE ! LOVE IT !

I bought this for my dad at work. He was having trouble reading emails. Since we hooked up this screen, I have not heard any complaints. It does not have speakers, but he doesn't use the speaker that often. This is the perfect screen for split screen so you don't have to have 2 sitting side by side

Price was excellent, love the brand & easy set up!

Like the size and shape. Colors are clear and bright.

Best value 32” monitor on the market. Replaced my Dell

Display is good. Clarity is also good. It better to use one than 2 monitor

I bought this monitor for my wife to use with her laptop for work as 2nd monitor . She seems to be happy with it so far.

really affordable and stunning picture, I love it.

outstanding size-outstanding color-outstanding controls

Great monitor, easy to adjust. Wonderful color display

Works as expected. Clear, crisp and visually appealing.

I use this display as another work screen. I love the look of the display and haven’t had any issues with the screen.