Buying a Dell monitor for my MacBook Pro

Hey people,
Sorry for being a newbie with this forums, I don't really know if this question should be posted here, considering I will use the monitor with my rMBP or if I should post this at the peripherals section of the forums.
Anyway, I'm in doubt between buying a Dell U2412M and the Dell U2414H, but I've seen people saying they had problems with both of them. Basically relating to making the DP ports to work with and sometimes about the amount of colors displayed (some people said the monitors wore not working at 8 bits (16.7m colors) when connected by HDMI and DP, due to the computer recognizing the monitors as TV screens or something like that) and that there is an Issue with the HDMI due to the nVidia graphics card. Also there's an issue with the monitor going to sleep mode and not coming back without re-plugging it.
My main questions are related to the connectivity (if the mDP works well considering I will use it for both monitors, I'm not thinking about buying converters to use DVI or even using the HDMI port); to the fact that one of the screens is 16:10 and the other is 16:9 (I don't know if that makes much difference, I will use the computer for work (some CAD applications and 3D rendering) and sometimes for photography editing after the renderings). The fact about the USB ports being 2.0 with the 2412M is not an issue at all.
As I heard both monitors are pretty decent concerning color reproduction, with the 2414H coming calibrated from factory and the 2412M being better if properly calibrated (according to TFT Central).
And the last question, IF somebody has the 2414H is if it could work as a TV (I would use an outside receiver (such as cable TV and Apple TV) and connect it to the HDMI port, but for that I would need the monitor to put the sound out from the audio connector, anybody know if it works?)
So, if anybody could give me any information about these monitors I'd be pleased. Or maybe other suggestions I'd be glad (My budget cannot go beyond the price of those Dell)
Thanks in advance,
Best regards.

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