Samsung PLS s24a850dw: What I am I seeing in this panel that my eyes can't take?

It's very hard for me to explain it... it's as if even with brightness turned to 45/100 my eyes are getting attacked by light underneath in patches becoming brighter at different parts of the screen... really hard to explain... is that ips/pls glow?

I think when you start to see the light glow. you need to take a break and rest your eyes

thanks, good advice, but I don't get that with other screens... I might have other problems with font definition say, but not this...

IPS glow is defined by a white bloom formed by antiglare coatings and the lack of a polarizer when viewing e-IPS & newer panels from off angles. The light doesn't get brighter, it just looks like a translucent plastic. What you're seeing is more like a wacked out backlight. The screen should be mostly uniform in brightness and change depending on contrast. Make sure you have any dynamic contrast options turned off.

Brightness at 45 is still high for this monitor. I have set it at 20, try lowering it and see if it will help you.

Try lowering the brightness. I had the S24850 and the screen looked "jumpy" to me. While I hate the color shift of my modern TN, it doesn't feel "alive" and my eyes don't strain on it. Much better for text, IMHO.

sfor said:

It's very hard for me to explain it... it's as if even with brightness turned to 45/100 my eyes are getting attacked by light underneath in patches becoming brighter at different parts of the screen... really hard to explain... is that ips/pls glow?

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The FRC implementation on the S24A850 is sub-par IMHO. I could see waves of color moving down certain pink and peach shades on it, as well as some darker shades of grey.

I don't know why, but the LG IPS panels that are also 6-bit + FRC don't have this issue.

To see how much back-light bleed you have, and you WILL have some on this screen do the following:

Put a black screen on, like from www.doihaveadeadpixel.com

Move back four or five feet while having your eyes centred on the screen

Look for any silver and gold-ish clouding, that's BLB

lawless2142 said:

IPS glow is defined by a white bloom formed by antiglare coatings and the lack of a polarizer when viewing e-IPS & newer panels from off angles. The light doesn't get brighter, it just looks like a translucent plastic. What you're seeing is more like a wacked out backlight. The screen should be mostly uniform in brightness and change depending on contrast. Make sure you have any dynamic contrast options turned off.

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Anti-glare has nothing to do with IPS glow. The ACD is glossy but has IPS glow. My Dell ST2220T is glossy but has IPS glow, albeit it's blue and far less than regular IPS variants right now because it is either an older S-IPS panel or a newer S-IPS II panel.

IPS glow is generally a charateristic of H-IPS type panels and is due to where the transistors are placed within each pixel, from what I know.

We have enough FUD around here concerning anti-glare coatings without you adding to it, thank you.