LG L246W

Interesting Morfix thanks for your reply, anyone else out there care to share their monitor settings, also Morf what resolution are you using?

thanks
 
Ranma13 said:
So says the guy who has to reply twice to my post.



Prove it. As the saying goes, pictures or it didn't happen.
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So go and buy one and see for yourself. Pictures prove nothing. Go and buy a cable, that will prove it for you besides, who are you???
 
Last calibration you will ever need for this

http://files-upload.com/355011/spyder2pro.icm.html

My first attempt was using spyder2express w/ 2.2 fixed gamma and it was horrible, I used spyder2pro with 2.0 gamma for the above though and it's perfect.

Set your color temp to User (which is really 6500k but with extra controls) and brightness (aka whitelevel) to 86 and contrast (aka black level) to 63.

On my particular monitor the factory setting is "64brightness 100contrast" but they are clearly labeled backwards because the contrast setting is changing brightness level and does nothing to contrast, so figure that part out on your own if your controls are labeled wrong or not. Some people claim their controls aren't labeled wrong but I'm a professional 3d guy and know for a fact mine are. This forum is crawling with noobs so I wouldn't be surprised if they were all labeled wrong and these people just didn't know what they're talking about.
 
morf are you doing anything to compensate for the TEENIE WEENIE text at 1920x1200 resolution???
 
kmrivers said:
Well I would be getting rid of both to get the 2707. I haven't really made a choice yet. I am starting to like the look of the LG though.



One 24" is enough. I agree, but driving the two displays wouldn't be too taxing. I am going to have two 8x00 cards on my next computer.

Plus I want to be able to use my 360 on one while my comp is up on the other. So I don't have to switch back and forth. I might set it up. I am holding out on opening the other one until I know for sure.

The 2707 is height adjustable for the record though.
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AHHH isnt this great??!!! Seems like only a year ago a 24 inch panel was out of the financial ball park for consideration and now............sweetness
 
morfinx said:
I usually up the font size in Firefox (Ctrl - +), but that's about it.
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The LG is obviously dressing it's best at native resolution but even with my 20/20 vision I just cannot tolerate text at 1920x1200 resolution.
ANYONE OUT THERE at native making any compensations for the tiny text? I would love to hear from you.....

THanks
 
conghelach said:
The LG is obviously dressing it's best at native resolution but even with my 20/20 vision I just cannot tolerate text at 1920x1200 resolution.
ANYONE OUT THERE at native making any compensations for the tiny text? I would love to hear from you.....

THanks
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Have you tried raising your DPI to 120?
 
conghelach said:
So go and buy one and see for yourself. Pictures prove nothing. Go and buy a cable, that will prove it for you besides, who are you???
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You know, you remind me of a story my friend told me once. He decided to do a unofficial psychology experiment. He set up a MP3 player with a 'black box' attached to the top of it with two audio cables coming out of the box. One of the cables looked like your standard black mini-plug cable, but the other one was thicker and shiny and looked like a high-quality cable. On the box was a switch that he could flip to supposedly change from one cable to another, but in actuality the switch wasn't connected to anything, and the standard black cable connected directly (well, through a Y-splitter and coupler) to some headphones that used disposable earplugs. The high-quality cable was there only for show and wasn't hooked up to the MP3 player at all.

He then set up a table to look like a demo for a made-up company's product, and then invited people to try it out and see which cable had the better sound quality. After listening to a song on 'both' cables, most people would indicate that the high-quality cable provided the better sound. At this point, my friend would open up the black box and reveal to them that it was only a single cable hooked up to the headphones and that the other one was a dummy cable. Most people responded with, first confusion, then embarrassment, and then laughter. However, what really shocked him was that there was a small number of people who refused to believe that they could be wrong, even going as far as saying that he, the person who set it all up, was the one who was wrong! It's like they denied the evidence right in front of their eyes and chose to believe what they perceived as facts over the reality of things.

Going back to you, sure, there might really be a difference from regular cables to high quality cables. However, you started off by telling people to get high-quality cables, and when no less than 3 of us told you that it won't make a difference, you simply said "well I can see a difference, so it must make a difference." Then we offered logical reasoning and explanations as to why there simply cannot be a quality difference, and rather than refute it or even consider it, you just said that we're the ignorant ones and that you, once again, are correct.

I ask the audience, who seems more credible? Someone who bought a high-quality cable and says "I can see a quality difference", or someone who can explain the underlying technology behind a digital signal and can offer an explanation based on proven facts?

And who am I? Just an electrical engineer / computer science major. And as I've said before, if you think you can see a quality difference, good for you. Just don't be an ass and say that we're wrong because you have no idea how a digital signal works.
 
conghelach said:
The LG is obviously dressing it's best at native resolution but even with my 20/20 vision I just cannot tolerate text at 1920x1200 resolution.
ANYONE OUT THERE at native making any compensations for the tiny text? I would love to hear from you.....THanks
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I have the same problem but it isn't because the text is too small, it's because this monitor has blurry text. Small is fine for me but small and blurry is unreadable. Higher dpi does help though
 
Alright, so I got my new screen.

I learned a great many things through this process.

1. If you order something from BestBuy.com, you cannot make an 'exchange' at the brick and mortar store. You can still have them refund the purchase though. So basically, it is a return, and then at your discretion, a brand new purchase of what may or may not be the same item. At the end of the day, due to my repurchase in Delaware, I had a net gain of nearly $70.00 due to the fact that my repurchase was without taxes. (Although I spent 1 and a half hours in the store for this to happen).

2. After you buy anything from BestBuy in store, you can have them open it and you can inspect it. Especially for computer monitors, this is probably a great idea to do before you take it home and are disappointed.

3. The new screen has uniform lighting and seems to be in perfect working condition and no dead pixels. Yay! I played some Quake 4 and am looking forward to watching some DVDs on this setup. Gaming was excellent. I could not notice any motion blurring from gaming, and this is a huge leap in performance from the 25 ms Samsung that I bought 4 years ago.

4. The default HDMI cable seems to give a nice clean signal, no issues.

5. I guess I am used to small text, but with a screen this large, it doesn't really bother me all that much. I am used to running in 1600x1200 on a 21 inch screen, this one is simply a little wider.

At the end of the day, I'm happy. And the black bezel = ++
 
i havent read the instructions or anything but i find having the VGA input great for testing or installing other computers. PIP only seems to work with component and hdmi? is there no way for it to work with another 2 set of inputs? it would be perfect for installing on one PC and doing stuff on another, i could see whats going on.
 
Ranma13 said:
You know, you remind me of a story my friend told me once. He decided to do a unofficial psychology experiment. He set up a MP3 player with a 'black box' attached to the top of it with two audio cables coming out of the box. One of the cables looked like your standard black mini-plug cable, but the other one was thicker and shiny and looked like a high-quality cable. On the box was a switch that he could flip to supposedly change from one cable to another, but in actuality the switch wasn't connected to anything, and the standard black cable connected directly (well, through a Y-splitter and coupler) to some headphones that used disposable earplugs. The high-quality cable was there only for show and wasn't hooked up to the MP3 player at all.

He then set up a table to look like a demo for a made-up company's product, and then invited people to try it out and see which cable had the better sound quality. After listening to a song on 'both' cables, most people would indicate that the high-quality cable provided the better sound. At this point, my friend would open up the black box and reveal to them that it was only a single cable hooked up to the headphones and that the other one was a dummy cable. Most people responded with, first confusion, then embarrassment, and then laughter. However, what really shocked him was that there was a small number of people who refused to believe that they could be wrong, even going as far as saying that he, the person who set it all up, was the one who was wrong! It's like they denied the evidence right in front of their eyes and chose to believe what they perceived as facts over the reality of things.

Going back to you, sure, there might really be a difference from regular cables to high quality cables. However, you started off by telling people to get high-quality cables, and when no less than 3 of us told you that it won't make a difference, you simply said "well I can see a difference, so it must make a difference." Then we offered logical reasoning and explanations as to why there simply cannot be a quality difference, and rather than refute it or even consider it, you just said that we're the ignorant ones and that you, once again, are correct.

I ask the audience, who seems more credible? Someone who bought a high-quality cable and says "I can see a quality difference", or someone who can explain the underlying technology behind a digital signal and can offer an explanation based on proven facts?

And who am I? Just an electrical engineer / computer science major. And as I've said before, if you think you can see a quality difference, good for you. Just don't be an ass and say that we're wrong because you have no idea how a digital signal works.
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Ramma go out and buy yourself a nice high end HDMI to DVI cable and enjoy the nice picture.
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It just bugs you to no end that I have experienced a difference in quality with the better after market cable that I purchased doesnt it. TOOO BAD. Why dont you "ask the audience" if they give two hoots in hell about anything that you have posted. This just in........they don't.
 
by the way i have a Q-RAY magic bracelet, a stone that make s CD/DVD sound better (but you can only use it 10 times) some laquer to paint on your chips and some $16000 speaker cables. and a bible

if you like to believe BS go ahead but please do not spread it.
 
DeFex said:
by the way i have a Q-RAY magic bracelet, a stone that make s CD/DVD sound better (but you can only use it 10 times) some laquer to paint on your chips and some $16000 speaker cables. and a bible

if you like to believe BS go ahead but please do not spread it.
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I have had pixels temporarily go "stuck" on this monitor. It's 2 days old and had no dead pixels when I got it and theres none while I'm looking at it right now but yesterday there was like 3 in the middle. Obviously the cable they include with this sucks and needs to be replaced because the temporary stuck pixels is one sign of bad HDMI / DVI cable.
 
DeFex now you are just being silly, as I have pointed out in previous posts, I may have received a bad cable with my monitor, let's face it I dont think any company out there is going to spring for a high quality, well shielded cable with any monitor.

I bought an aftermarket cable, far better shielded and the splotchies went away, everything looks ALOT better. Nuff said. Others have reported the same thing. I payed fifty bucks for an inland cable, NO I did not buy a ridiculous monster cable.

God help anyone who contradicts what some college boy engineer read in one of his textbooks blah blah blah.......put it to bed folks.

Do we really think that people come to this forum for such debates? People come here to discern as much practical information as they can with regard to making a good LCD purchase from the experiences of others who have purchased the LCD. Not to be lectured by engineering students or to be told people are just imagining things. I have never said that someone should go out and buy some ridiculously expensive cable especially when something mid range will do the job over some cheapo cable that was included with the monitor that is clearly inferior to the better shielded after market purchases one can make.
Now if one of you know it alls would like to make their dissertation on digital signals or on digital cables.......be my guest. Then any interested parties can read your dissertation on some OTHER venue.

Instead of arguing about such things you know it alls might try sharing your experiences with the LG monitor ( which none of you have yet taken the time to do) and/or perhaps sharing with the rest of us what resolutions and color settings you are using with this panel, what you use it for such as gaming? movies? windows? etc. What graphics card you are using to drive your panel, what you like about the panel, what you dislike about the panel etc. What you were using prior to your new LG purchase......the list goes on. Not one of you who argues with me about my purchase of an aftermarket cable and my experiences have posted a word about the panel that would be helpful to those who come here trying to decide on what they should buy.


SHARING EXPERIENCES is what forums are all about. Some of you and you all know who you are, aren't doing that at all and to you I can only suggest you join the debate team or start one up at the engineering hall or keep your noses buried in your textbooks or argue with your classmates. In other words........with people who might be interested in what you have to say. Be assured, the majority did not come here to talk about 1's, 0's or electrons.
Some of you know it alls may have no problems with the cable that came in your box with your monitor but who knows? NONE of you care to share that information. I have shared my experiences and clearly not everyone is going to get a properly functioning cable with their monitor. It might not occur to someone who is having trouble to give their cable a second thought unless others share their experiences which is what people come here to see. Not to see the know it alls who are out to TOOT THEIR HORNS for all of cyberspace.

Consider your motives........

I have said all that I am going to say about this.

Good Day
 
NOW THEN......

Would anyone who has purchased the LG 246WPBN care to share their experiences with this monitor, likes? dislikes? Settings? Operating system? Type of graphics card being used? Calibrator? A comparison/contrast with other LCD monitors that you may have experience with?

I am curious to know what resolutions and color/contrast/brightness settings people are using and whether or not they are using clear type or adjusting their text size etc especially those who are using the monitor at native resolution.

ANYONE????

Roachie.......you seem to think there may be a panel lottery, any news on what lcd panel was used on your LG246WPQ? I've seen postings with regard to the LG245 and LG246 but those only point out that one is available as an online purchase, the other is "in store" purchase but aside from some cosmetics they are using the same panel. Any luck discerning if your WPQ has a different LCD panel other than the AU Optronics panel??
 
conghelach said:
It just bugs you to no end that I have experienced a difference in quality with the better after market cable that I purchased doesnt it. TOOO BAD. Why dont you "ask the audience" if they give two hoots in hell about anything that you have posted. This just in........they don't.
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The only person I see complaining in any of these threads is you. You gave what several of us consider to be bad advice, and we pointed that out and explained why. Then, rather than either responding to our explanations, providing your own, or ignoring us, you repeatedly go on to tell us that this isn't the place for our "dissertations" and that "no one cares", that this isn't the "point" of these forums, and that anyone who disagrees with you and actually takes the time to explain why is a know-it-all college engineer with too much time on their hands.

Since when do you get to decide what we're allowed to talk about and what we're not? These forums are a place for sharing experiences, yes, but they're also a place for sharing knowledge, information, and advice that might be helpful to others. I've learned a great deal of information on these boards, and if I can pass that on to others, I will, regardless of whether you dislike it. I hardly consider a few paragraphs to be a "dissertation", and frankly I consider it an insult to be told that I'm not contributing to these boards. Go back and read through all of my previous posts if you'd like. I've made useful posts numerous times to this very thread, which went on for many pages before you arrived here.

If you have a problem with a post or a user, you should contact a moderator and let them resolve the situation. It's their job to decide whether a post belongs or not, not yours or mine.
 
If you have transient dead pixels, signal loss, or major corruption, consider replacing the DVI-HDMI cable with a better one. Don't just automatically buy one because somebody on the forum tells you to.

Conghelach, I'm "sharing my information." I bought this monitor yesterday. The picture is flawless. I couldn't be happier with it. There aren't any transient dead pixels, screen corruption issues, or signal droputs, so buying a new cable would not make any difference whatsoever for me.

I'm running it at 1920x1200. There's no reason, in my opinion, not to run an LCD at native resolution. The text isn't even remotely close to tiny. The people who say it is must be sitting two meters from their monitor. The dot pitch on a 24" monitor is perfectly "normal," big enough that I can see all of the pixels in unhinted text.

I've hooked it up to my 5-and-a-half-year-old desktop running Ubuntu Linux. (I will be building a new computer by the end of the month.) I'm using a GeForce3 Ti 200 with the DVI output and with acceleration turned off due to a bug in the Linux driver when DVI output is used. So I haven't tested the monitor on movies and games yet, but based on the gorgeous picture I'm getting now and the lack of visible (to me) input lag or ghosting, I expect it will be quite satisfactory when I have a computer capable of driving it with video and 3D graphics.

It replaced a 17" Dell-branded Trinitron CRT.

I have the L256 (i.e., bought in a brick and mortar store) WPQ model, and it is definitely the MVA panel it's supposed to be, based on viewing angle, perfect gradients (no banding! hooray!), and such. Only one person has hypothesized that there might be a TN panel, and that based on something that's not an indicator of panel types, blurry text. I wonder if they were using the VGA input instead of the HDMI input. If not, maybe it's an operating system setting, or they were running it at non-native resolution. This monitor is as sharp as can be. There's no reason to believe there's a panel lottery. Unless a significant number of people start seeing actual evidence, the idea is just FUD.

I haven't bothered with significant calibration yet, and based on some reference images, the default brightness of about 63 is perfect for seeing both slightly off-whites and very dark greys. There is, as many people have reported, a slight compression of the blacks, but I don't find it severe enough to be objectionable. Otherwise, I have only good things to say about the picture.

I'll be recommending this monitor to my friends.
 
musicinmybrain said:
I have the L256 (i.e., bought in a brick and mortar store) WPQ model, and it is definitely the MVA panel it's supposed to be, based on viewing angle, perfect gradients (no banding! hooray!), and such. Only one person has hypothesized that there might be a TN panel, and that based on something that's not an indicator of panel types, blurry text. I wonder if they were using the VGA input instead of the HDMI input. If not, maybe it's an operating system setting, or they were running it at non-native resolution. This monitor is as sharp as can be. There's no reason to believe there's a panel lottery. Unless a significant number of people start seeing actual evidence, the idea is just FUD.

I haven't bothered with significant calibration yet, and based on some reference images, the default brightness of about 63 is perfect for seeing both slightly off-whites and very dark greys. There is, as many people have reported, a slight compression of the blacks, but I don't find it severe enough to be objectionable. Otherwise, I have only good things to say about the picture.
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I agree with everything you've posted here. Based on the viewing angle alone there's no way this could be mistaken with a TN. I saw the Samsung 24 inch TN model in Best Buy, and there's no comparison -- even slight changes in vertical viewing causes horrendous brightness shifts, whereas on the L246WP I have to be at pretty extreme angles before I notice a difference.

I've gone through the calibration in the LG fortemanager software, and I agree that out of the box the monitor is very good. I've lowered the brightness setting a bit to around 55, but otherwise, I've left everything at the default. At some point I'd like to get a colorimeter, but in the meantime the picture looks very good to my eyes, and I don't notice any banding on gradients. I do notice the slight loss of detail in the blacks, but it's very subtle and doesn't bother me -- it's much better than that on the Gateway I've seen.

All in all I'm quite happy. My only regret is that Best Buy knocked another $20 off the price and was giving away a $50 gift card with purchase three weeks after I bought it (damn! :p ), but otherwise, I'm very pleased.
 
musicinmybrain said:
Only one person has hypothesized that there might be a TN panel, and that based on something that's not an indicator of panel types, blurry text.
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Don't spread disinformation. The person that said there might be a panel lottery is me and the word "panel lottery" does not mean TN panel, what kind of dumb assumption is that. Dell for instance has panel lotteries with IPS and PVA panels. Some people are receiving L246WPBN monitors and others are receiving L246WPQ monitors then of course you have the L245 one as well. The difference in model number may indicate different panel types, meaning a different MVA panel or revision it has nothing to do with TN panels. Myself I have a L246WPQ and can tell you the text and overall picture is more blurry than any panel I have owned before and there have been others posting in this thread complaining about blurry text, it's not just me. Either the ones that don't mention it have different panel types or they don't know how crisp an LCD is supposed to look.
 
I've messed with a lot of font DPI settings and a setting of 109% seems to make a good difference for this monitor. Small text doesn't bother me but this monitor doesn't seem to have enough sharpness to display small fine text and a setting of 125% dpi seemed to retain the blurriness of the small text while 109% is decently sharp. Not as good as I'd like but maybe good enough to not warrant a return since the colors and gaming are nice.
 
bootstrap said:
I agree with everything you've posted here. Based on the viewing angle alone there's no way this could be mistaken with a TN. I saw the Samsung 24 inch TN model in Best Buy, and there's no comparison -- even slight changes in vertical viewing causes horrendous brightness shifts, whereas on the L246WP I have to be at pretty extreme angles before I notice a difference.

I've gone through the calibration in the LG fortemanager software, and I agree that out of the box the monitor is very good. I've lowered the brightness setting a bit to around 55, but otherwise, I've left everything at the default. At some point I'd like to get a colorimeter, but in the meantime the picture looks very good to my eyes, and I don't notice any banding on gradients. I do notice the slight loss of detail in the blacks, but it's very subtle and doesn't bother me -- it's much better than that on the Gateway I've seen.

All in all I'm quite happy. My only regret is that Best Buy knocked another $20 off the price and was giving away a $50 gift card with purchase three weeks after I bought it (damn! :p ), but otherwise, I'm very pleased.
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Boot did you order your panel online? I bought mine in the best buy store and got the LG246WPBN, I also got a price match when the price went down a few days later. Apparently I did not receive the LG fortemanager software, only drivers and a manual of sorts on a disk plus some after market software to use. I am unable to use the EZ VIDEO from the monitors menu selections, however, using the SRGB setting with a brightness of 30 has worked quite nicely for me. The only software I got was some after market stuff called "PIVOT PRO" for use when pivoting the monitor from vertical to horizontal, something I wont be doing anyhow. No banding or gradients here either. Blacks are the best I've seen so far on any lcd monitor. I found that on brightness levels of 55 or higher the montior was running quite warm though I am sure this is to be expected since 24 inch lcd's have higher wattage than smaller panels. With my brightness at 30 and the SRGB setting selected my monitor runs substantially cooler than it did at other settings.

Are you using native resolution and any text adjustments??
 
conghelach said:
Boot did you order your panel online? I bought mine in the best buy store and got the LG246WPBN, I also got a price match when the price went down a few days later. Apparently I did not receive the LG fortemanager software, only drivers and a manual of sorts on a disk plus some after market software to use. I am unable to use the EZ VIDEO from the monitors menu selections, however, using the SRGB setting with a brightness of 30 has worked quite nicely for me. The only software I got was some after market stuff called "PIVOT PRO" for use when pivoting the monitor from vertical to horizontal, something I wont be doing anyhow. No banding or gradients here either. Blacks are the best I've seen so far on any lcd monitor. I found that on brightness levels of 55 or higher the montior was running quite warm though I am sure this is to be expected since 24 inch lcd's have higher wattage than smaller panels. With my brightness at 30 and the SRGB setting selected my monitor runs substantially cooler than it did at other settings.

Are you using native resolution and any text adjustments??
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I bought mine locally at a Best Buy at the end of May. The fortemanager software is available on LG's website, it didn't come with the monitor. They don't actually advertise that it works with this monitor, but I heard others talk about it and thought I'd try, and it seems to work fine. You can edit some (not all) of the monitor controls from directly within fortemanager instead of using the OSD controls on the monitor, which I find to be a little more convenient (I still dislike having the buttons where I can't see them, but this is a minor inconvenience). I never installed the pivoting software either, if I need to pivot I'll just the nvidia drivers, but like you this is a feature that I will use rarely if ever.

I did notice my LCD monitor getting a little warm with my brightness setting of 55, but even after a few hours it was never really "hot" like some users were complaining about with the Gateway, so I never thought twice about it. It's only warm if I physically place my hand on the monitor, though, it's not like it's radiating a large amount of heat or anything. :p

I am running at native resolution, but I haven't made any adjustments to the text and I haven't had any problems using it. I really don't notice any of the blurriness that others are reporting -- perhaps I'm just less sensitive to this? I would say that the monitor is sharper than my previous monitor (Dell 1905fp) and my laptop screen, so I'm satisfied with it. I was a little worried about the smaller pixel pitch since I was coming from the 19 inch and was considering getting a 27 inch for a while, but I'm glad I didn't as the pixel pitch has turned out to be a non-issue for me I'm not sure I'd have the space for a bigger monitor anyway.
 
I just dont get it, i have the same monitor and it is by far the sharpest text at least over the dell and gateway 24's i had...i do not use clear text cause it sucks and makes text blurry by making it bold like.

Text just cannot get clearer and i have 20/10 vision. unless i got an oddball superior monitor but i have seen several in different stores and everyone is monitor perfection and the reason i bought one.
 
serialmike said:
i do not use clear text cause it sucks and makes text blurry by making it bold like.
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Under no circumstances does cleartype make text look worse and less readable on a NORMAL monitor. If you think it looks worse with cleartype it's because the monitor wasn't having good text to begin with.
 
R0achTheWarHero said:
Under no circumstances does cleartype make text look worse and less readable on a NORMAL monitor. If you think it looks worse with cleartype it's because the monitor wasn't having good text to begin with.
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As opposed to an abnormal monitor? What exactly do you mean here?

I wouldn't say that ClearType makes the text less "readable", but it is noticeably more blurry and to my eyes it looks worse. ClearType looks OK on my laptop (which doesn't have a great screen), but on all the desktop monitors I've ever used I've preferred keeping it off. In fact, I would say that, to me at least, ClearType has only looked good on the screens that did NOT have very good text to begin with.
 
clear type off on y laptop....my old pf225f viewsonic crt.....and on every single screen i ever owned....it is an artificial enhancement that adds a bold effect to make the text more viewable.not clearer.
EDIT- I aplogize , after thinking baout it, its not that i dont use a method of cleaning the type its just that i use standard rather than clear type. I hate absolutly hate cleartype.


In actuality it is an antialiasing feature that softens and smooths the image. I much prefer and harder and crisp image with full detail. Its the same as turning off the stupid noise reduction feature on a television sets as most calibrators will turn it off first!

Again it is an artificial smoother blurring the image.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearType

and its also takes resources to use it :)
 
musicinmybrain perhaps because you are using linux the text size is a non issue for you, I am using XP and as yet I have not made any alterations to the text size.

I agree with bootstrap and the others, clear type does not look good on this monitor as is often the case with other desktop monitors however in some laptops I find clear type to be most helpful.

Like bootstrap I too considered a larger display but once I saw the 24's I knew anything larger would not be practical on a computer desktop. The larger monitors I have seen other than say dell's 27 and some 32 inch lcd's at micro centre labeled winbook, You dont often see a larger lcd monitor that has adjustable height, it would just sit on your desk at keyboard level and that's no good but then I dont think a majority of the larger than 24 inch screens were designed or are marketed for use as a pc desktop. More for gaming with consoles or use as a television. While I like the size of the 32 inch lcd at micro center the games looked awful ( all consoles WII XBOX and PS3) and the fact that it was raised, the panel was huge and would need a VERY LARGE desk indeed. From what I have seen these larger displays often don't offer a DVI or HDMI either at least not the ones in the television section of the appliance stores.

Yes default text is too small for me at native, have yet to play with the dpi but im sure I will. My LG is running rather cool now at 30 brightness though I dont think it is abnormal for a 24 inch lcd to run warmer as these panels run 70 to 100 watts compared to 30to 50 for a 19 to 22 inch lcd. The samsung 245 is rated at 100 watts and that one was very warm.

Boot do you have a link to that forte manager software? I have been to the LG site and could not find it.
 
serialmike said:
I just dont get it, i have the same monitor and it is by far the sharpest text at least over the dell and gateway 24's i had...i do not use clear text cause it sucks and makes text blurry by making it bold like.

Text just cannot get clearer and i have 20/10 vision. unless i got an oddball superior monitor but i have seen several in different stores and everyone is monitor perfection and the reason i bought one.
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agreed, text is very clear and sharp on the LG and I am even using it at non native resolution.......yes I know........BLASHPEMY :D
 
serialmike said:
I just dont get it, i have the same monitor and it is by far the sharpest text at least over the dell and gateway 24's i had.
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It seems like one of the reasons the text kinda sucks is that this monitor has the gritty anti-glare shit on it but then has a semi gloss layer on top of that. If they used 2 layers of plastic instead of 1 that might explain why it's not as clear. They really need to use either reflective coating or anti-glare coating because going midway really has no benefits except to create a diffuse lighting effect that makes things appear to look like plastic (especially blacks) (no not black people).
 
Hey another question, I was watching some flicks on the internet and black bars top and bottom of the screen with media player, how do I get rid of them and get a full picture? does not seem to be a way to do this in media player, the flicks were widescreen flicks. Should I have switched it up to native resolution? used the 1:1 setting???
 
R0achTheWarHero said:
It seems like one of the reasons the text kinda sucks is that this monitor has the gritty anti-glare shit on it but then has a semi gloss layer on top of that. If they used 2 layers of plastic instead of 1 that might explain why it's not as clear. They really need to use either reflective coating or anti-glare coating because going midway really has no benefits except to create a diffuse lighting effect that makes things appear to look like plastic (especially blacks) (no not black people).
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the LG seems to have a nicer anti glare coating that other lcd's, a bit glossier if you will compared to others that I have seen though thankfully not one of those wretched full on glossy screens that catch everything in the background.
 
conghelach said:
Hey another question, I was watching some flicks on the internet and black bars top and bottom of the screen with media player, how do I get rid of them and get a full picture? does not seem to be a way to do this in media player, the flicks were widescreen flicks. Should I have switched it up to native resolution? used the 1:1 setting???
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download media player classic or Gomplayer, also set saturation to 58% and gamma to 13% under video color settings in nvidia control panel to get color to look like it should if using VMR7 or VMR9 video rendering (the vista default) instead of overlay (the xp default)
 
conghelach said:
Boot do you have a link to that forte manager software? I have been to the LG site and could not find it.
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Here you go: link. I wasn't sure which one to use, but I'm pretty sure I tried the newer version (Mar 23) and it seems to be working fine for me.
 
After having this monitor for a few days, one problem I noticed is that it does not like to resume from a lower power state, for example, when I put the computer into Hibernation, the only way to "wake" the monitor is to turn the power on the monitor completely off and then back on again.

Slightly annoying.
 
I have mine set to power off at twenty minutes, I do not have my machine hibernate though, I have no problems waking my monitor up, I do not shut the hard drive off either.

For that matter, I do not leave my computer powered on 24/7, contrary to popular belief, it is not good to have your computer running all of the time especially when no one is home should a hardware problem arise................all you naysayers out there who want to dispute this go right ahead, I fix your dead computers all they time.......why? Overheated when the fans dies from leaving them on 24/7. :D :D :D :D
 
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