HP this morning upgraded its monitor lineup with a screen it claims is the most affordable display yet for video editors and other pros working in color-accurate situations. The DreamColor is designed with help from DreamWorks Animation SKG and uses a rare 24-inch LCD panel that produces 30-bit color, generating more than one billion colors; the color range is 64 times that of even better everyday LCDs and also results in blacks four times deeper than normal LCDs. An LED backlight both contributes to a better contrast ratio (1,000:1) and also ensures that colors are uniform across the entire screen.Motion video performance is still strong with a 6ms gray-to-gray pixel response time, a 12ms absolute response time, and support for artifact-free video playback at 60Hz (for North American and Japanese video) and 50Hz (for countries using PAL).

A single model, the LP2480zx, starts the line at $3,499 and includes connections for DVI and the new DisplayPort 1.1 format for computers, HDMI 1.3 and component video for HDTV sources, and both RCA and S-video for basic analog video. A four-port USB hub is built in with the screen, which is available effective today.

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