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    OLED video monitor burn-in notice.

    The devil is always in the detail. From personal experience even LCDs suffer from burn-in: 1) Industrial control systems, of which I've seen many, often display a given graphic for hours at a time. On some systems the ghosts of these screens are clearly visible. 2) About 5 months ago I...
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    Older Gamers are Feeling the Pain?

    47 here. Quite recently Overlord II caused problems with my mouse hand - lots of unusual 2 buttons + sweep action I guess - but that's about it to date, an elbow/forearm support helps greatly.
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    What Makes A Video Game Scary

    I gave up on Penumbra: Overture when it descended into endless pupycide, I'll try it again one day. Penumbra: Black Plague certainly hits the mark and keeps the suspense running for a good length of time, a fine game and good horror/suspense. Dead Space? A collection of notionally frightening...
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    24" Widescreen CRT (FW900) From Ebay arrived,Comments.

    Try Vaseline. For the scratches, not the sex. Try to work a tiny amount into each scratch then carefully wipe away any excess. I've heard some say it helps, it's easily removed anyway.
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    Need help w/ LP2475W issues and calibration

    Strange. I spent 30 seconds talking to an Indian gentleman. He asked me the model number, checked the 'system', then gave me the correct number to call. Text: ClearType can be tuned to get most text looking fine, ymmv, but I failed to tune it to the point where all text looked good. Finally I...
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    Silly question but whatever...

    Have you tried looking at portable LCD TV's ? I picked up the 8" version of this (warning UK sticker shock) http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=96876 a couple of years ago, it was a LOT cheaper at the time! VGA and composite, 800x600 iirc, separate power brick, it made for an ideal...
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    HP LP2475w (Possible new IPS)

    Yes, for the HP. On the CRT FF3 and no colour management but I still see 'bands'. I downloaded the Lagom image and in a graphics editor used the colour picker to determine the width of the 'stripes' of equal shade. From memory the majority of the stripes are of equal width but every 8th or...
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    HP LP2475w (Possible new IPS)

    @kay Interesting comment re: the Lagom gradient test. Look closely, especially near the dark end and you may well see banding. I see it on my HP and on my old CRT. This is not an indication that anything is wrong with the monitor, far from it the HP performance is excellent in this respect...
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    help calibrating a CRT

    One thing that has worked for me in the past: Head over to the black tests here http://www.drycreekphoto.com/Learn/Calibration/monitor_black.htm or here http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/black.php Open your graphics card control panel and tweak your gamma settings up a little and things should...
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    NEC MultiSync 24WMGX³ First Professional Review Translated

    very informative, many thanks albovin
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    Dell 2408WFP vs. HP LP2475W

    I've owned both of them, I no longer own the Dell. I couldn't live with the VA shift, the large colour variation on the leftmost 2" of the screen and I couldn't reach a happy balance with the sharpness control. Oh, and lag, at first I didn't notice, to excited with the new toy perhaps, but after...
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    HP LP2475w (Possible new IPS)

    I received a request for my 5800k settings: RGB all = 255, <chuckle> a fortuitous reset Eye-One gives the following calibration profile: http://www.i2net.me.uk/files/MonitorCalib-14-10-2008/ecat_58k_23-11-2008_2.icc As stated somewhere previous this results in a significant reduction in...
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    HP LP2475w (Possible new IPS)

    This is my third LCD monitor, at the time it was three monitors in three months. The first was a budget VA, it came highly recommended -by some- instant dislike by me, I spent the weekend we had together avoiding the pc completely, seriously, it was unusable. The second a dell 2408 came...
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    HP LP2475w (Possible new IPS)

    It may sound alarming but 20% variation in brightness would appear to be average to good for current LCD's, see Panel Uniformity : http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/hazro_hz26wi.htm http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/samsung_245t.htm http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/dell_2408wfp.htm...
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    24" Widescreen CRT (FW900) From Ebay arrived,Comments.

    You're welcome, glad I could help. CRT's are very sensitive to magnetic fields, even variations in the Earths magnetic field can cause them problems. Manual degaussing is not usually necessary as most CRT's perform an automatic degauss at power on but in the good old days before whatever...
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