I finally invested in a new high-end monitor for precise photo editing (NEC PA271W) but was disappointed to find that there's noticeable backlight bleed in 3 corners of the screen. Pictures:
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These were taken with my phone in pitch dark and the monitor had been calibrated to an intensity of 140 cd/m2. The bleed is also noticeable against dark colors in daylight/with the lights on.
I'm not crazy about having spent $1,400 on a new monitor only to find faults like this, and it's still within the return period, but packing it all back up, dealing with RMA, paying to ship it back and waiting several weeks to a month for another one to be shipped to me that could be just as bad if not worse isn't very appealing either.
So my questions...first, is there anything at all I can do to fix it? I haven't found much online that seems very promising in terms of a fix but maybe I'm missing something. Second, assuming it can't be fixed and given the amount of backlight bleed in the pictures above, is it really worth paying to ship it back and waiting weeks to get a replacement? I know that's mostly a matter of personal opinion, but I don't know what the odds are of the replacement monitor being just as bad in terms of backlight bleed. I've read some posts that say *every* monitor like this has some degree of backlight bleed and that noticeable backlight bleed is common but I don't know how bad mine is compared to most or how much better I can expect a new one to be. My 5-year-old NEC LCD1990SXi monitor has no visible backlight bleed whatsoever, which is what I was hoping for with this new monitor (or at least not as much as this) but maybe that's unrealistic?
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#2
These were taken with my phone in pitch dark and the monitor had been calibrated to an intensity of 140 cd/m2. The bleed is also noticeable against dark colors in daylight/with the lights on.
I'm not crazy about having spent $1,400 on a new monitor only to find faults like this, and it's still within the return period, but packing it all back up, dealing with RMA, paying to ship it back and waiting several weeks to a month for another one to be shipped to me that could be just as bad if not worse isn't very appealing either.
So my questions...first, is there anything at all I can do to fix it? I haven't found much online that seems very promising in terms of a fix but maybe I'm missing something. Second, assuming it can't be fixed and given the amount of backlight bleed in the pictures above, is it really worth paying to ship it back and waiting weeks to get a replacement? I know that's mostly a matter of personal opinion, but I don't know what the odds are of the replacement monitor being just as bad in terms of backlight bleed. I've read some posts that say *every* monitor like this has some degree of backlight bleed and that noticeable backlight bleed is common but I don't know how bad mine is compared to most or how much better I can expect a new one to be. My 5-year-old NEC LCD1990SXi monitor has no visible backlight bleed whatsoever, which is what I was hoping for with this new monitor (or at least not as much as this) but maybe that's unrealistic?