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L204WT Eyestrain

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scarface19

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I bought a 20" ws TFT for the main reason that it is known to cause less eye strain than a CRT.

However to my surprise I'm experiencing the contrary.

The L204WT comes incredibly bright so I reduced the gamma to -50 , brightness to 70, contrast to 66 and increased temperature to 6500k (so that the whitepoint is less bright)

I don't know what I should do. I am spending hours in front of this tft because I have a thesis to do, and I am ending with my eyes red and sore every day.

Does anyone please have any suggestions ? I am really confused.
 
When I get home Ill post my OSD settings and nVidia Control Panel settings because even though the colours are nice and vibrant I get close to ZERO eyestrain with this LCD
 
If the monitor is extremely bright, why did you only reduce the brightness to 70? I own two LCD's, and the TN is at 0 brightness, the S-PVA is at 20. This is in a dark environment.

Ambient light also helps. Staring at a bright screen in a darkened room puts a terrible strain on your eyes.
 
Scyles said:
If the monitor is extremely bright, why did you only reduce the brightness to 70? I own two LCD's, and the TN is at 0 brightness, the S-PVA is at 20. This is in a dark environment.

Ambient light also helps. Staring at a bright screen in a darkened room puts a terrible strain on your eyes.
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i have tried zillions of settings,

the brightness at the point I was posting was at 70, because I lowered the gamma to -50, and reduced the temperature

Also, I have used the tft both with ambient light and without and it still bothers me to look at it !
 
Well I've still got class now but can remember the settings more or less. So try this..put the OSD settings to factory default and run Adobe Gamma and use the profile that Adobe Gamma creates. Then go into the Nvidia Control Panel (hopefully you have an Nvidia card) set the brightness to 50, contrast to about 35, notch the gamma up by 1 and leave everything else the same. On the OSD, Contrast at 80 and brightness at 35. That config works very well for me.
 
feo said:
Well I've still got class now but can remember the settings more or less. So try this..put the OSD settings to factory default and run Adobe Gamma and use the profile that Adobe Gamma creates. Then go into the Nvidia Control Panel (hopefully you have an Nvidia card) set the brightness to 50, contrast to about 35, notch the gamma up by 1 and leave everything else the same. On the OSD, Contrast at 80 and brightness at 35. That config works very well for me.
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can you please confirm when you get home pls, because the settings on the nvidia panel you gave me are kind of invalid, because my display almost becomes black..

thanks for now
 
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And on the monitors actual OSD, the settings are:

Brightness: 35
Contrast: 75
Gamma: 0
and it's at 6500K, nothing else is changed and I don't get eyestrain with these settings. I use the LCD both in the dark and during the day no problems.
 
No problem, just remember that I tried to calibrate the LCD with Adobe Gamma first, I wasn't happy so I tried the Nvidia calibration thing and also messed around in the Nvidia Control Panel and the OSD before I got the perfect balance.
 
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