Bad LCD experiences

Everyone post your bad LCD experiences here! I'll start.

I've gone through five (5) LCDs total and have had to return them all.

1. Westinghouse L2410NM (Newegg) - Very noticeable screendoor effect in upper right corner.
2. Westinghouse L2410NM (Sam's club) - Not as noticeable screendoor, but buzzed badly.
3. Dell 2408WFP - Discolored corner, PVA washout, backlight bleed.
4. LG L246WP - Strange image persistence problem.
5. Soyo DYLM24D6 - Noticeable screendoor effect on left side of screen. Seems to be an isolated case.

3 and 4 were most shocking to me, considering their price. None of them had any dead or stuck pixels, which is amazing.

I'm now back to using my 19" TN panel which I bought years ago.

This is the explanation of that not every hot new monitors from dell or westy are so good like they looks .

I've never seen screendoor yet in an LCD monitor unless I went looking for it with my eyes next to the panel. Shimmering/sparklies on some panels, yes. Discolored edges, yes, but not to a degree that the monitor is unusable. Buzzing? Yes, a few have really annoying buzzing/HF squeal, that would be the only deal-breaker for most IF you're running it in a quiet room. Image persistence? Yes, but not for very long, and again, not an issue with motion video/games. The biggest image problem for most is using analog instead of digital connections.

So, I guess I'm lucky, I get all the good monitors.

(Then again, I don't buy Westy or Soyo.)

First LCD purchase: Soyo DYLM24D6. Dead and stuck pixels galore. I haven't RMA'd it yet, but I will soon. And receive a TN panel in its stead

The screendooring I've noticed has been ridiculously noticeable, so I am just unlucky. And perhaps I'm using the term incorrectly - I meant rows of pixels that are spaced slightly more than the rest of the rows, inconsistently.

The buzzing on the second Westinghouse gave me a headache, and it was an on & off kind of deal, which was annoying.

The image persistence was more of an improperly tuned overdrive setting, or something similar - when switching between contrasting colors quickly, it would overshoot the target color and fade back within a few seconds, which was way too long. It wasn't inverse ghosting, either. The Soyo doesn't do that at all, and it uses the exact same panel.

I use DVI/HDMI only.

Here's to hoping OLED is affordable soon and doesn't have a bunch of problems!!!

PVAs/MVAs - gamma shift
BenQ FP241W - the above + buzzing
NEC 2690 - the price

I remember reading about your image persistence problems in the LG thread. I thought that was crazy. What a messed up panel. I never saw that with the LGs I had, nor the FP241W which was the same exact panel.

I went through this last year:

2 x LG L246WP - Dead Pixels or sub-pixels, would have kept otherwise.
1 BenQ FP241W - Perfect panel, overscan over component and HDMI, VGA mis-sizing with 360 at 1920x1080
1 BenQ FP241VW - Same as FP241W + dead pixels
1 LG 37" 37LB5D TV - Input lag of 60+ ms, relegated to console gaming + movies

And this year:

1 BenQ G2400W - Returned for bad pixel + sleep issue (replaced with a unit I'm happy with)
1 Westinghouse L2410NM (returned for repair to Best Buy) had mild screen door and buzzing but died in 2 months
1 BenQ FP241VW - Returned for weird stuck pixels - Replaced with another. Worst factory calibration I have ever seen. Thank God for Basic Color and my NEC calibrator.
1 NEC LCD2690WuXi-BK - Multiple stuck pixels and a few dead subpixels, replaced by NEC

All this because my old Dell 2005FPW didn't have HDCP! LOL

I still love 'em though. They are like women for some reason. You always want the newer, prettier model

Using an LG L246WP right now. Actually mine is called L246WP-BN. No image persistence at all.

I had the L246WP-BN too, but it seemed like what I was experiencing was an isolated case, fortunately.