An ICC profile is a little file that basically describes the colour profile of your monitor and allows programs to map colours accurately. Firefox can read them, and you can load them on boot into your graphics card LUT using something like LutLoader (search this thread for that word).
First of all, whack the brightness down to around 10, that will give the desired 120cd/m2.
Secondly, of course the reds are oversaturated - this is a wide-gamut monitor. Without a proper hardware calibration being performed this will be the case.
As for text, mine looks fine, but you need...
ecat: are you using firefox with colour management enabled? In that case you will see banding which is a natural side effect of colour space conversions (mapping sRGB onto aRGB).
Remember also that the brain has an amazing knack for tuning out extraneous information - after a few weeks you probably won't even notice the WG as much (especially if you are not using other sRGB monitors).
If you properly calibrate and use a colour-aware browser such as firefox, then websites look fine.
Point remains it's a much better monitor than the Dell which is also wide-gamut (and actually looked more over-saturated and "cartoony" to me when I had it for a little while) and it's IPS vs TN...
I don't think the HP is going to drop in price anytime soon, especially in the UK the falling pound is going to make consumer electronics more expensive this year, and as the dollar isn't looking too clever at the moment either imports are becoming more expensive and struggling retailers are...
Have you looked at some of the latest crop of larger TN's, I think Hannspree (or Hanns G, can't remember) do a 28" 1920x1200 jobby.
Remember, you can also always increase the DPI inside windows, and these days it's not as hit and miss as it used to be with app compatibility.
Sorry to say it, but this is why IMO HDTV's make poor monitors - they are meant for very different unsage patterns.
The sharpening that you see going on is so that upscaled SD content doesn't look too blurry, and there's other stuff in there to remove MPEG compression artifacts. Are you sure...
Not all LCD's have the transformer built into them, my last few didn't.
To be honest, if you have warranty left it would be pretty silly to void it attempting a home repair - send if off. Yes, it may be inconvenient for a couple of weeks, but do you have another monitor you can use in the...
That's to be expected - when putting a 1080p source in it's displaying 1080p, when putting a 720p source in it's displaying 720p.
Makes no difference, the TV is simply scaling to the native resolution.
DVI = Digital end to end, VGA = Analogue
That should be all you require to make a decision, with VGA you are introducing 2 conversions (D/A and then A/D on the other end), depending on the quality of those you can end up with excellent or poor results, but never as good as DVI IMHO.
From reading the posts by 16:9 proponents it seems that watching media on a 16:10 monitor forces you to have black bars at the top and bottom and these seemingly cause peoples eyes to spontaneously bleed! :p
What they forget to mention is that most films are 2.35:1 anyway, so you still get...
If you have phone records proving you telephone them, present them with that in an LBA (Letter Before Action) giving them 14 days to put it right or you will take them to the small claims court. MoneySavingExpert and ConsumerAction forums should be able to provide templates/guidance on the process.
OLED is a technological dead end IMHO. They still cannot get around the fundamental issue with it, lifespan - they fade far too quickly for the premium price they are sold at.
SED/FED is the way forwards for TV's - for monitors, I'm not totally sure.
The only refresh they could make would be to one of the new wide gamut IPS panels made by LG.Display as they don't seem to be creating any new sRGB ones.
Not really, look at the Dell Panel Lottery(tm) - same monitor model, different panel inside.
The panel is a discrete part that's purchased by the monitor manufacturer to put inside, the supporting electronics etc AND the panel make up a monitor.
If you cannot see it from normal usage, why bother going to look for it? :rolleyes:
If you really must know however, black image on screen and look from an angle.