QuantumPion
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- Joined
- Jun 22, 2006
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- 16
I just got the monitor last night, here are my first observations:
-The case/bezel/stand aren't nearly as ugly as they look in the pictures, it looks pretty nice. However, the glossy bezel is slightly annoying as it reflects a little bit of the picture along the edges.
-No stuck pixels, haven't noticed any dead pixels so far.
-The manual/stickers/etc are in the most ridiculous engrish I have ever seen, lol.
-I like the V-style base much better then the disk style, it lets me put my keyboard right up against the screen. The stand it self is sturdy enough. It will wobble if you shake your desk or while messing with the controls, but is fine if you leave it alone.
-The power brick gets ridiculously hot, it must be a pretty inefficient transformer. The monitor itself also gets pretty warm, almost like a plasma tv.
-The monitor is crazy bright, I need sunglasses to view it if there is a mostly white background. The colors really pop out, coming from a TN monitor to a IPS/WG the colors are amazing.
-The contrast and gamma settings are pretty close to the correct values at the default settings.
-The brightness control does seem to be a digital black level control. Setting it below 45 or above 55 seems to be pointless, you lose all contrast. I'm not sure how I can reduce the brightness to a usable level this way. Maybe if I reduce brightness but crank up the contrast; I haven't messed with it much yet.
-I see no white glow or red glow at wide viewing angles. I do see a slight green glow in the corners when looking straight on, but I can only see it on a black background. There doesn't seem to be any serious blacklight bleed issues.
-The response time is at least as good as my samsung 22" TN panel, e.g. I can't perceive any ghosting (and I am really sensitive to ghosting). I don't notice any input lag either, where my sammy had significant input lag. The monitor has almost CRT-like response.
Anything you guys want in terms of tests or pictures when I get home from work? I don't have a CRT to test input lag, although I could test it against my sammy which I know has like 2 frames of lag.
-The case/bezel/stand aren't nearly as ugly as they look in the pictures, it looks pretty nice. However, the glossy bezel is slightly annoying as it reflects a little bit of the picture along the edges.
-No stuck pixels, haven't noticed any dead pixels so far.
-The manual/stickers/etc are in the most ridiculous engrish I have ever seen, lol.
-I like the V-style base much better then the disk style, it lets me put my keyboard right up against the screen. The stand it self is sturdy enough. It will wobble if you shake your desk or while messing with the controls, but is fine if you leave it alone.
-The power brick gets ridiculously hot, it must be a pretty inefficient transformer. The monitor itself also gets pretty warm, almost like a plasma tv.
-The monitor is crazy bright, I need sunglasses to view it if there is a mostly white background. The colors really pop out, coming from a TN monitor to a IPS/WG the colors are amazing.
-The contrast and gamma settings are pretty close to the correct values at the default settings.
-The brightness control does seem to be a digital black level control. Setting it below 45 or above 55 seems to be pointless, you lose all contrast. I'm not sure how I can reduce the brightness to a usable level this way. Maybe if I reduce brightness but crank up the contrast; I haven't messed with it much yet.
-I see no white glow or red glow at wide viewing angles. I do see a slight green glow in the corners when looking straight on, but I can only see it on a black background. There doesn't seem to be any serious blacklight bleed issues.
-The response time is at least as good as my samsung 22" TN panel, e.g. I can't perceive any ghosting (and I am really sensitive to ghosting). I don't notice any input lag either, where my sammy had significant input lag. The monitor has almost CRT-like response.
Anything you guys want in terms of tests or pictures when I get home from work? I don't have a CRT to test input lag, although I could test it against my sammy which I know has like 2 frames of lag.