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I know there is a thread for the benq, but seeing as you are going to be able to compare the gateway with it, please let us know if you see any ghost/trailing/motion blur. I don't know if you were noticeing it on the gateway, but I was.Jball said:Just got the benq in... quick test..
No flickering, and absolutely smooth gradients.. Im off to work, so I wont be able to calibrate this thing till this weekend sometime.
Looks promising.
JB
dannyallen34 said:I just bought this monitor and the picture looks great. I've been playing Xbox 360 games on it all day and there have been now problems. However, this monitor has a very high pitched buzzing sound that is forcing me to return it and either try another one or buy the BenQ when it gets 1:1 (if it hasn't already).
I think I will probably exchange this for another first and see if the buzzing problem was just for this monitor. I can even hear it above my speakers when playing X360 games...
aeon said:weird that the buzzing bothers people. the buzzing doesn't seem to bad for me, i can barely hear it over my ps3 or computer.
dannyallen34 said:I just played some more X360 over the VGA cable and there was no buzzing, but right when I went to change the input back to DVI, the buzzing started again. Weird.
I'm using the one that it shipped with. I don't think that it would matter because now I hear the buzzing over component as well. One other thing I've noticed is that this monitor is hot, especially on the top. It isn't like burning hot, but it is hotter than any monitor I've had before.Tim-in-CA said:Are you using the DVI cable that ships with the monitor or another one?
BPini said:I know there is a thread for the benq, but seeing as you are going to be able to compare the gateway with it, please let us know if you see any ghost/trailing/motion blur. I don't know if you were noticing it on the gateway, but I was.
Thanks
If I understood correctly, those problems were with the gateway. Then he ordered the BenQ and he's saying it's much better in those areas (no gradient problems or green in grays).peTeMelster said:The BenQ has hint of green in greys, or the Gateway does?
The BenQ has gradient problems, or the Gateway does?
How is the video noise when watching videos/movies/DVDs on both monitors? Which one is better? Which has more accurate colors after calibration, and which has a wider color gamut?
peTeMelster said:The BenQ has hint of green in greys, or the Gateway does?
The BenQ has gradient problems, or the Gateway does?
How is the video noise when watching videos/movies/DVDs on both monitors? Which one is better? Which has more accurate colors after calibration, and which has a wider color gamut?
madgravity34 said:@JB
Can you post up a few pics possibly comparing the two screens when they are running cloned inputs? I just wanted to get a feel for how much better the benQ may be than the gateway. The other thing I wanted to know, does the BenQ make any buzzing sounds or anything?
gar818 said:Ok, recently i purchased this monitor, here are my results............
PROS
- nice colors
- no ghosting for gaming
- dvd's look good
- HUGE
- plenty of inputs
CONS
- Blacks are horrible with this monitor
- a bit of color trail, only if you concentrate
- very LIGHT flickering, again only when you concentrate
Other then the CONS i have listen this monitor is awsome and its a keeper for me, the pros outpower the cons for me on this one
has anyone come up with ways to calibrate some of the cons i have listen, if you have please let me know what you changed and what are your settings so far i am using this setup
brightness = 100
contrast = 35
gamma = 0
red = 100
green = 95
blue = 90
gar818 said:EZ tune gives you the same options as the monitor calibrations, but in a software.
Jball said:Both monitors were quite easy to get to 6500 kelvin. I believe the Benq does have better black levels, as well as black detail, but somehow the colors were still a little more appealing to me on the Gateway, even after calibration. Or course I wasnt able to exactly calibrate it well (meaning smooth gradients) , so I pretty much used the Warm setting which registered about 6800 kelvin. The warm setting gave me the best natural grays and I had to do away with the icc profile I made.
Jball said:I did find a bug in the gateway. When changing modes for example movie, warm, cool, user, etc... (I forget the names), if you scroll down to the last setting (User/custom), whatever you have set your R, G, and B on that custom setting, it will carry over to the other setting when you keep htting the down key
Seemore said:Why not still use the icc profile to get the monitor the rest of the way to 6500K using the graphics card LUT? If the colors were "more appealing" on the Gateway, why go with the BenQ?