DAOWAce
Limp Gawd
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- Apr 8, 2007
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Owner of a PB298Q. Former owner of a FG2421.
In scenes that transition into blackness there's this horrible, blotchy/blocky artifacting at the edges of the transition, almost like the display mode changes to 8bit or something. Edit2: Better words from a friend: "it looks like an oil slick"
0% brightness: http://i.imgur.com/PgW8nIp.jpg
100% brightness: http://i.imgur.com/N61qOu9.jpg
Old monitor:
0%: http://i.imgur.com/x8SxOuv.jpg
100%: http://i.imgur.com/Gb0TrpB.jpg
Image taken from War for the Overworld. Raw image for comparison on your monitor, please let me know if yours exhibits it too: http://i.imgur.com/uLaeMRK.jpg
Notice how on the old monitor (HP f2304; 10 years old too) it transitions perfectly to black whereas on the new monitor it discolors and artifacts before reaching pure black. This makes gaming in dark scenes problematic and disgusting to boot. This also happened on the FG2421 (returned it), which was even worse because of the high contrast ratio VA panels have, not to mention it had temporal dithering.
I can't seem to find any information about this on the internet. Not from user comments, user reviews or professional reviews. Nobody seems to even know this issue exists.
I've done all forms of monitor tests and everything checks out fine, but when looking at images, videos or playing games, the problem is present.
Does anyone know what this could possibly be from, or what it's called? Is it something to do with the bit depth? The color gamut? I am clueless.
Edit: More info in my later post. Seems to change in severity when the contrast goes over/under 60. Sometimes it's 59->60 that it changes, sometimes it's 60->61. I don't understand this. I've still yet to find any remedy after a year.
That picture is only one case of it. I was trying to setup a Diablo 3 light radius shot too, but my ISP decided to have an outage, and we all know D3 isn't playable offline! The light radius ring showed a pretty horrible artifacting in a very different way, wish I could get it, but hopefully this is enough for diagnosis.
Here's 2 more raw images that exhibit the problem greatly to test with, mainly blocky artifacting: http://i.imgur.com/bKzfgy8.png and http://i.imgur.com/RXp8kfI.png
In scenes that transition into blackness there's this horrible, blotchy/blocky artifacting at the edges of the transition, almost like the display mode changes to 8bit or something. Edit2: Better words from a friend: "it looks like an oil slick"
0% brightness: http://i.imgur.com/PgW8nIp.jpg
100% brightness: http://i.imgur.com/N61qOu9.jpg
Old monitor:
0%: http://i.imgur.com/x8SxOuv.jpg
100%: http://i.imgur.com/Gb0TrpB.jpg
Image taken from War for the Overworld. Raw image for comparison on your monitor, please let me know if yours exhibits it too: http://i.imgur.com/uLaeMRK.jpg
Notice how on the old monitor (HP f2304; 10 years old too) it transitions perfectly to black whereas on the new monitor it discolors and artifacts before reaching pure black. This makes gaming in dark scenes problematic and disgusting to boot. This also happened on the FG2421 (returned it), which was even worse because of the high contrast ratio VA panels have, not to mention it had temporal dithering.
I can't seem to find any information about this on the internet. Not from user comments, user reviews or professional reviews. Nobody seems to even know this issue exists.
I've done all forms of monitor tests and everything checks out fine, but when looking at images, videos or playing games, the problem is present.
Does anyone know what this could possibly be from, or what it's called? Is it something to do with the bit depth? The color gamut? I am clueless.
Edit: More info in my later post. Seems to change in severity when the contrast goes over/under 60. Sometimes it's 59->60 that it changes, sometimes it's 60->61. I don't understand this. I've still yet to find any remedy after a year.
That picture is only one case of it. I was trying to setup a Diablo 3 light radius shot too, but my ISP decided to have an outage, and we all know D3 isn't playable offline! The light radius ring showed a pretty horrible artifacting in a very different way, wish I could get it, but hopefully this is enough for diagnosis.
Here's 2 more raw images that exhibit the problem greatly to test with, mainly blocky artifacting: http://i.imgur.com/bKzfgy8.png and http://i.imgur.com/RXp8kfI.png
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