Sooo I picked up an Asus PA279Q yesterday to replace my Samsung S27A950D. I was looking forward to a good quality IPS to replace the old TN seeing as I haven't played an input latency sensitive game in years.
10 minutes after powering it on I had instead received an education in black levels and IPS glow.
My first thought was this was backlight bleed but the calibration report included with the monitor shows 100% brightness uniformity across the panel apart from the bottom left which was still only 101%. A quick experiment in moving off centre eliminated the glow in the direction I moved and made it worse on the other side so it is simply viewing angles. This is a shame as colours are amazing regardless of backlight brightness level and blow the TN panel out of the water in that regard.
Unfortunately a lot of my games are fairly dark and most movies tend to throw in a night scene or two. When faced with this the PA279Q has far worse horizontal viewing angles than the Samsung TN ever did, even straight in front of the screen the corners still glow.
Given my intended use for the screen I am going to return it. I guess I have two questions:
1. Should IPS Glow be this bad or is there something wrong with this particular unit?
2. If this is normal... any recommendations on an IPS 2560x1440 or 4k screen that can handle dark scenes? I am still hoping to keep response times reasonable ... the PA279Q seemed a bit squishy after using a 120Hz panel but was still tolerable. If not I will look at another TN.
Skyrim at 30% brightness in a dim room:
Even in a brightly lit room at 30% brightness you can still see the same pattern (don't mind my reflection in the middle):
Black screen in a dark room for reference, again 30%:
10 minutes after powering it on I had instead received an education in black levels and IPS glow.
My first thought was this was backlight bleed but the calibration report included with the monitor shows 100% brightness uniformity across the panel apart from the bottom left which was still only 101%. A quick experiment in moving off centre eliminated the glow in the direction I moved and made it worse on the other side so it is simply viewing angles. This is a shame as colours are amazing regardless of backlight brightness level and blow the TN panel out of the water in that regard.
Unfortunately a lot of my games are fairly dark and most movies tend to throw in a night scene or two. When faced with this the PA279Q has far worse horizontal viewing angles than the Samsung TN ever did, even straight in front of the screen the corners still glow.
Given my intended use for the screen I am going to return it. I guess I have two questions:
1. Should IPS Glow be this bad or is there something wrong with this particular unit?
2. If this is normal... any recommendations on an IPS 2560x1440 or 4k screen that can handle dark scenes? I am still hoping to keep response times reasonable ... the PA279Q seemed a bit squishy after using a 120Hz panel but was still tolerable. If not I will look at another TN.
Skyrim at 30% brightness in a dim room:
Even in a brightly lit room at 30% brightness you can still see the same pattern (don't mind my reflection in the middle):
Black screen in a dark room for reference, again 30%: