Ordered from costcentral.com. Just got my ZR24W from today. However, the monitor is DOA... Here is a picture showing the damaged CCFL (I believe)
Really bad luck...
Good old Georgia Tech. How I don't really miss those days.
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Ordered from costcentral.com. Just got my ZR24W from today. However, the monitor is DOA... Here is a picture showing the damaged CCFL (I believe)
Really bad luck...
That makes me weary... Couldn't you have tested them both before shipping the first back? When they were going to send me a totally different monitor because of their own screwup, they said I'd get it in two days and I could keep my original one until the replacement got there. Maybe it's because you're in the UK.
I ordered the ZR24w from NCIX last weekend and price matched it to $376.99 CAD. Just picked it up today and I am pleased to say there is absolutely no dead pixel, no stuck pixel, no backlight bleed, nor any uniformity issues etc. The colours are really nice out of the box. The ZR24w is really bright as many people have said, and I had to turn it down to 30. The blacks, indeed, are not the deepest black, but it's NOT overly bad at all.
Only minor complaints are that the monitor cannot height adjust as low as the Dell stands and the monitor is quite thick in size, not in bezel. Also, the monitor response for sleeping or switching from booting to Windows is a bit slower than my old Dell. Otherwise, I'm loving it, especially for the price I paid for.
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Brightness 7
Contrast 100
RGB 94, 140, 99
6500k
Crap.
something ive noticed over the last few days, maybe my eyes have begun to adjust to the brighter monitor over time, or maybe the initial intensity of the back lighting has worn off. in either case, ive gone from a brightness setting of 10, to 30.
i dont want to say that the monitors gone from seeming dim, to vibrant, because its never been dim. its kind of like ive pulled a pulled a dingy plastic coating off it, and revealed whats really underneath. if that makes sense.
Have any of you noticed this hum, as a function of brightness?
When i were watching TV today it striked me that TVs have sooo much better monitor quality than PC monitors, why is it like that?
There is no backlightbleed, no tinting, no IPS glow or anything even on cheap LCD TVs, plasma is even better, they have also good viewing angles.
So mankind is able to produce huge 50 inch TVs which can show PERFECT blacks, white, no backlightbleed, etc etc. but mankind can't create a tiny little 22" or 24" PC monitor which displays white as white and with no backlightbleed etc.
You can't blame the price either because you can get a 40" Full HD LCD TV for like 644USD or less. ZR24w is only a little bit cheaper than that, around 515USD.
When i were watching TV today it striked me that TVs have sooo much better monitor quality than PC monitors, why is it like that?
There is no backlightbleed, no tinting, no IPS glow or anything even on cheap LCD TVs, plasma is even better, they have also good viewing angles.
When i were watching TV today it striked me that TVs have sooo much better monitor quality than PC monitors, why is it like that?
There is no backlightbleed, no tinting, no IPS glow or anything even on cheap LCD TVs, plasma is even better, they have also good viewing angles.
So mankind is able to produce huge 50 inch TVs which can show PERFECT blacks, white, no backlightbleed, etc etc. but mankind can't create a tiny little 22" or 24" PC monitor which displays white as white and with no backlightbleed etc.
You can't blame the price either because you can get a 40" Full HD LCD TV for like 644USD or less. ZR24w is only a little bit cheaper than that, around 515USD.
I read AVSforums LCD sections. Full of people complaining about flashlighting, clouding, backlight issues.
Off angle issues like white glow are a lot more noticable when you sit 2 ft away than when you sit 10 feet away and their aren't many IPS TVs...
My replacement ZR24w arrived. My first one has debris sandwiched in the LCD in a rather annoying area (but no dead pixels). I'm happy to have this one arrive with no dead pixels and just one tiny bit of debris in a non critical area. I'm amazed at the few reports of dead pixels on this monitor.
There's one thing I haven't seen anyone mention yet. There's a 10 pixel band around the edges of monitor that is a darker shade. Even glancing at the windows clock you notice the poor back lighting around the close edges of the screen. Annoying for IRC and other applications I use that bunt any text or content to the edge of the screen. It might be a deal breaker for me in the long run.
http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/black.php
can anyone with this panel see the first two squares on their display?
I can see it on my old benq TN panel but even adjusting the gamma within windows display settings they remain clipped to black.
http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/black.php
can anyone with this panel see the first two squares on their display?
I can't see the first 4 on my calibrated NEC 2490. People really shouldn't obsess so much over small things.
http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/black.php
can anyone with this panel see the first two squares on their display?
I have no problems seeing the difference between even 1 & 2 on mine.I can't see the first 4 on my calibrated NEC 2490. People really shouldn't obsess so much over small things.
can anyone with this panel see the first two squares on their display?
Being able to resolve individual values between 0-255 on an LCD display is hardly a small thing IMO - it's a basic function of an 8 bit panel and people should absolutely expect it from an IPS display.
Perhaps, but you can argue from the other side too.. Far too many people calibrate things and create an accurate colour space at the price of image quality. What would the average consumer (not somebody attempting to match print colours etc) be better off with?