Amazon just did another major price hike, $899 now. 3-6 weeks.
Hmmm... maybe I should sell mine... easiest 200$ of my life!
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Amazon just did another major price hike, $899 now. 3-6 weeks.
Just boxed it up, tough going back to a 27 but at least there is only one shade of grey instead of 5 or 6 on the forums. Not hating on VA, I've had several and never had that issue before.
It seems they have problems to submit uniform panels even to reviews.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Jc473LbnNNM#t=71
Really don't see what you are seeing?
It seems you guys are just picking apart a monitor for tiny flaws, when all monitors have flaws. Some of you are going back to IPS panels that have massive amounts of IPS glow, mediocre contrast, and other IPS issues. Switching panel types can take awhile to adjust, you are trading certain cons for other cons. It could take a month for some people to stop being "annoyed" by the flaws of a different panel. Mine still hasn't shipped from Amazon, but worse case I can easily return it. I highly doubt anything on this monitor is more annoying than IPS glow and sub 1000:1 contrast though. VA panels always seem to impress me.
At least 2 of the people returning their monitors in this thread came with stuck/dead/dim pixels, and I believe from the same supplier even. That might be a QA issue, or a shipping damage issue, but I wouldn't form an opinion on monitors that have something noticeably wrong with them out of the box.
Really don't see what you are seeing?
It seems you guys are just picking apart a monitor for tiny flaws, when all monitors have flaws. Some of you are going back to IPS panels that have massive amounts of IPS glow, mediocre contrast, and other IPS issues. Switching panel types can take awhile to adjust, you are trading certain cons for other cons. It could take a month for some people to stop being "annoyed" by the flaws of a different panel. Mine still hasn't shipped from Amazon, but worse case I can easily return it. I highly doubt anything on this monitor is more annoying than IPS glow and sub 1000:1 contrast though. VA panels always seem to impress me.
At least 2 of the people returning their monitors in this thread came with stuck/dead/dim pixels, and I believe from the same supplier even. That might be a QA issue, or a shipping damage issue, but I wouldn't form an opinion on monitors that have something noticeably wrong with them out of the box.
Thanks for that snake. Do you recommend buying an xrite i1display pro for the monitor? How was the before/after?
I don't fully understand the devices. I assume it tweaks the monitors settings based on a windows color profile, however most games won't use windows color profile to my understanding. So these devices really only calibrate desktop usage?
@Snake:
Could you please post your settings from the OSD, like contrast, brightness, display mode and so on - thanks!
Thanks!
I don't have any calibrating tool and i can check the gamma only on with a tool like this http://www.photoscientia.co.uk/Gamma.htm#menu.
With that i reach gamma 2.2 with OSD setting 1.
For my understanding: you reach the correct gamma with OSD at 3 only because of calibrating, right?
It seems they have problems to submit uniform panels even to reviews.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Jc473LbnNNM#t=71
I changed settings, now i'm at 6000K, gamma 2.2, 110cd/m², i have a 2521:1 contrast ratio with a mid deltaE of 0.62, but 2 colors seems not possible to correct ! One of them has a deltaE of 3.09 (
My monitor settings :
Picture mode user
brightness 32
contrast 50
gamma 3
color temp user R 99 G 94 B 88
https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?34262-The-Best-Monitor-I-ve-Ever-Owned&p=277102
Another raving mini-review.
I'd highly suggest running gamma at 1 before calibrating. TFTCentral claims the gamma is a massive 28% off of 2.2 gamma scale on 3 (~20% more than your average out of the box settings). That's a lot to correct for and may be why you can't get those 2 colors 100% correct. They didn't seem to have the same problem.
TFTCentrals settings:
Preset = User
Gamma = 1
Brightness = 26
Contrast = 50
R = 100
G = 97
B = 96
I tried
Only changing setting to gamma 1, 110cd, 6000K, i get a 2496:1 ratio, 0.58 mid deltaE with the same 2 colors deviance (max of 3.05)
With all the tft central settings, 5800k and 120cd, i get a 2528:1 ratio, 0.49 mid deltaE with 2 colors problem too (one usual blue-green, and red, max of 2.98)
With all the tft central settings, 6000k and 120cd, i get a 2470:1 ratio, 1.04 mid deltaE with 2 colors problem too (one usual blue-green, and white, max of 3.06)
and with all the tft central settings, 6500k and 120cd, i get a 2640:1 ratio, 0.72 mid deltaE with 2 colors problem too (one usual blue-green, and green, max of 3.96)
It seems I always get 2 colors out of the tolerance, always that blue-green and another one
But the mid deltaE is good, and to my eyes, the result is excellent
[X]eltic;1040866387 said:I haven't hooked my PS3 up to this monitor yet, so I have no idea at the moment. Will try tomorrow. I will test both the 720p and 1080p output of my PS3. There's a chance that the 720p output looks better, because the 2560x1440 resolution of the BenQ is precisely four times the PS3's 1280x720 resolution. This means that the BenQ only has to scale it, whereas the BenQ actually has to interpolate the 1080p resolution.
For now, I can tell you that I tried a Lord of the Rings blu-ray with VLC Player. Up close, this blu-ray loses quite a bit of sharpness on this monitor, if I compare it with my previous 24" monitor. From a distance, however, there's no problem. Can't fault the monitor for that though, this is just due to the stretching from 24" to 32".
As for older games, I tried Heroes of Might and Magic III. In the monitor menu, there's an aspect ratio option and also an 1:1 pixel mapping option. So yes, it is very possible to properly letterbox older games. There's another option too, which could be useful for older games: 19 inches. If you choose that, the BenQ will emulate a 19" inch monitor with 4:3 aspect ratio. For HoMM3, this resulted in the game being larger than 1:1 pixel mapping, but smaller than a full stretch with the aspect ratio option.
Yeah, you are right if you watch the movie without stretching it. Fullscreen, it loses sharpness. But as said, not the monitor's fault.Isn't this PPI about the same from 24" 1080p to this guy? Shouldn't be "losing sharpness" really I wouldn't think. Wish I had one to test.
[X]eltic;1040866534 said:Uniformity on grey screen. Looks a lot worse in the picture than in everyday use.
Yeah, it is not something I notice in everyday use. I mean, if I specifically try to notice it, then yeah, it is visible on certain screens, but when I'm busy, playing a game, browsing the web or watching a movie, it's just not something I notice.Some people returned it due to that??
Throwing up a gray screen on my current VA panel produces much worse results and I don't even notice them outside of doing that. It's something most people's brains/eyes will condensate for after using the monitor for a bit.
This monitor has no IPS glow, but I do have to warn you that the contrast shift occasionally looks like minor IPS glow on certain screens. This is something that is actually noticeable in everyday use. However, it is nothing compared to real IPS glow. I say this as a former IPS monitor owner.Personally, I can't get use to IPS glow, no matter how hard I tried.