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Recent content by Mike63
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How to properly clean a monitor?
A microfiber cloth can be bad for semi-glossy plastic screens. It will absorb dust as you move it across the surface, and the soft plastic AR coating may then pick up scratches from the dust. A matte screen will be somewhat more resistant to that. The best you can do for semi-glossy plastic... -
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How to clean off a LCD monitor screen
Depending on the coating, it can be hard to clean a plastic screen without scratching it. Some newer monitors and TVs may have anti-scratch coatings, I don't know, but my experience is that plastic screens with semi-glossy or glossy coatings tend to pick up fine scratches from cleaning... -
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Intel hd full rgb range through hdmi
According to Intel, Full Range RGB should work with HD Graphics 4000. It's only HD 2000/3000 that are stuck with limited range. If it can't be activated through the control panel, you should be able to make it work by changing some registry settings. The details of how to do this can be found in... -
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1440p vs 1080p (games, movies)
If the goal is high pixel density, why not simply get a 22" 1080p monitor? 22"/1080p ~ 100 ppi. 27"/1440p ~ 109 ppi. 24"/1080p ~92 ppi. 32"/1440p ~ 92 ppi. -
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Dell U2415 with 16:10 1920 x 1200 AH-IPS panel
That's right, and I have this issue with my S2440L. More recent versions of Intel HD graphics support full range RGB (0-255), and this mode can be activated either in the HD graphics control panel or else through a registry hack. There is unfortunately no workaround for Intel HD Graphics... -
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Monitor Advice Please
I don't see greyish blacks on my unit, but then I don't use this display in a brightly-lit room. I don't think the color looks "awful" either. The color gamut of this model is rated at 89%, while the color gamut of the smaller S2340L/M 6-bit IPS in the same model line is listed at 82%. The... -
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Monitor Advice Please
FRC means temporal dithering so that some pixels are flickering at 30 Hz. On 6-bit displays, I can definitely see pixels flickering on some static images and I actually find this effect worse than PWM. I never referred to color gamut. Tftcentral didn't think it was a "god-awful" display... -
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Monitor Advice Please
A gradient test will show banding on any 6-bit+FRC display - no matter how good the algorithm - and anyone with a good eye should be able to see a difference in real world content between 6-bit+FRC and true 8-bit color. I know I can, as I use both 6-bit and 8-bit monitors. A 6-bit IPS... -
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Monitor Advice Please
If your primary interest is blu-rays, you need to get a 1080p monitor with a glossy screen and a VA panel. Assuming you can control your lighting so you don't have a problem with reflections, a glossy screen will give movies the clarity and "pop" that a matte screen could never provide. A VA... -
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Best monitors on a budget?
Given that most IPS displays are now 6-bit+FRC, I would say you can't have decent colors without VA. -
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Finding the right 24" monitor
You want 8-bit color for graphics, and so you will probably need to get an MVA display. IPS panels are all 6-bit now, except for high end professional models costing $400+. -
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Is HDMI really better than VGA?
What's wrong with my system is that it has no HDMI connector and the iGPU limits RGB output to 16-235 through a DVI-HDMI adapter. Using the adapter results in poor contrast of course, but text sharpness is more or less the same using the adapter or the VGA connection. -
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Is HDMI really better than VGA?
People claim that VGA will always produce a blurry image in comparison to HDMI or DVI, but I'm just not seeing that with this particular display. I don't know if this is because of the panel type or because of the size of the display or what. Whatever the reason, I would argue that it's a waste... -
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Is HDMI really better than VGA?
I first used the HDMI port of my S2440L using an DVI-HDMI adapter, but then I eventually switched to the included VGA cable because I couldn't find out how to force Intel Graphics 3000 to display full range RGB (0-255). There was no discernible difference in the sharpness of text in going to... -
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So many choices, yet so few [24"-27"]
A semi-glossy MVA display would be much better for gaming, movies, and text. (A glossy screen would be even better, but you said no glossy screens.) There isn't an IPS display at any price that can match the 3000:1 contrast ratio of an MVA panel, and in fact most IPS displays don't even have...