Recent content by Stormblazer

Alright, I've been reading through here a bit, and from what I've been looking at the Sennheiser PMX 100s look promising: Budget: Under $100 preferred. Use: Mostly for music/movie stuff, some gaming but I don't care about positional audio too much. Music genre is mostly symphonic metal /...

No, that's not it. I'm beginning to think it's a defective panel. The dark greys band in a way that makes them seem tinted dark green instead of true grey. I don't have a working camera at the moment, or I'd take a picture. And yes, the image does look best at 50% brightness, normal color...

True. My complaint is mostly with the very noticable banding though- It's not as bad as the banding in the earlier models, but it's still present enough to significantly degrade image quality across the board, even when it's not easy to pick it out directly. Colors just look off all over the...

Question: I just bought a new 2007WFP (manufacture date is Oct 2007), it's an S-IPS panel. Unfortunately, darker shades of black are off-color, and I can't seem to fix the issue. Adjusting contrast introduces very noticable banding. It's not an issue most of the time, but in video, even slight...

Finally got mine- ends in an 'L', has the purple tint that indicates it's an S-IPS. My impression: I'm somewhat surprised people have praised S-IPS this much. The purple tint on dark colors shows up at very shallow angles, I have to look at the screen dead on to avoid it. Secondly, there is a...

This thread has been a tremendous help to me in search of a monitor for my new system. I managed to find one on ebay with a serial number ending in "L" so hopefully it's S-IPS.