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ebolamonkey001
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The anti-glare coating on this monitor is THE WORST I HAVE EVER SEEN ON ANY PANEL EVER. If you touch the screen and slide your finger across it, it feels like you're touching a rhinoceros hide. An LCD screen is supposed to feel smooth, not like you're touching a piece of sandpaper. Reading text on this monitor is just painful. I own a Samsung 245bw TN panel and I consider the anti-glare coating on this as aggressive as you can get without making your head explode while looking at it. I was hoping this monitor would have less aggressive anti-glare coating but it was 10x worse.
The whites after calibration to 120cdm2 are also dingy and less pure than my Samsung TN panel that's 3 years old. I'm not sure if it's due to LG's quality control or the ridiculous anti-glare coating, probably both. What else is there to say? Oh there's pretty bad backlight bleed from all 4 corners that seems to be there on every panel. Screen uniformity is also pretty bad. The left 1-2 inches of screen are a little darker and there's not really a stable color temperature across the thing.
The panel also ships with what seems to be a non-linear gamma ramp that makes lower-mid greys like H forum too dark but makes darks lower than that too light. This is kind of a wtf issue for a company that's supposed to be as good with color as NEC. The blacks are another thing that will annoy you. The center can get relatively dark but when you combine the IPS white glow (from not having a polarizer) with the backlight bleed from each corner and bad AG coating, it almost feels like you're looking at a TN panel from 1990.
After calibration, this and my Samsung 245bw TN panel have virtually the same colors. The only difference is the Samsung looks like it has better saturation while the NEC has foggy greyish looking colors (possibly due to AG coating).
I have previously owned both the NEC 20wmgx2 and Dell 2209wa IPS monitors. I was expecting this to be a larger 20wmgx2, not even close. As for comparison between the ea231wmi and 2209wa, the 2209wa also got returned but I'll go over it anyway.
The AG coating on the 2209wa wasn't nearly as bad, it was probably less aggressive than my 245bw TN panel. I returned the 2209wa because it has severe gamma issues that I couldn't correct. For both these E-IPS panels you *need* a high end calibrator capable of constructing a good non-linear gamma ramp to correct the factory settings.
Here are pictures of the 2209wa with as good of a calibration as I could accomplish, I never achieved anywhere near as good image quality with the NEC:
http://farmhick.50megs.com/
Overall, I think E-IPS is bad in general and any IPS panel without a polarizer makes you feel like you're looking at a TN panel due to all the shifting so you might as well just buy a real TN and get it over with.
I now have a 27inch TN panel on the way in the mail. I also would not recommend any 16:9 screen smaller than 25-26 inches.
The whites after calibration to 120cdm2 are also dingy and less pure than my Samsung TN panel that's 3 years old. I'm not sure if it's due to LG's quality control or the ridiculous anti-glare coating, probably both. What else is there to say? Oh there's pretty bad backlight bleed from all 4 corners that seems to be there on every panel. Screen uniformity is also pretty bad. The left 1-2 inches of screen are a little darker and there's not really a stable color temperature across the thing.
The panel also ships with what seems to be a non-linear gamma ramp that makes lower-mid greys like H forum too dark but makes darks lower than that too light. This is kind of a wtf issue for a company that's supposed to be as good with color as NEC. The blacks are another thing that will annoy you. The center can get relatively dark but when you combine the IPS white glow (from not having a polarizer) with the backlight bleed from each corner and bad AG coating, it almost feels like you're looking at a TN panel from 1990.
After calibration, this and my Samsung 245bw TN panel have virtually the same colors. The only difference is the Samsung looks like it has better saturation while the NEC has foggy greyish looking colors (possibly due to AG coating).
I have previously owned both the NEC 20wmgx2 and Dell 2209wa IPS monitors. I was expecting this to be a larger 20wmgx2, not even close. As for comparison between the ea231wmi and 2209wa, the 2209wa also got returned but I'll go over it anyway.
The AG coating on the 2209wa wasn't nearly as bad, it was probably less aggressive than my 245bw TN panel. I returned the 2209wa because it has severe gamma issues that I couldn't correct. For both these E-IPS panels you *need* a high end calibrator capable of constructing a good non-linear gamma ramp to correct the factory settings.
Here are pictures of the 2209wa with as good of a calibration as I could accomplish, I never achieved anywhere near as good image quality with the NEC:
http://farmhick.50megs.com/
Overall, I think E-IPS is bad in general and any IPS panel without a polarizer makes you feel like you're looking at a TN panel due to all the shifting so you might as well just buy a real TN and get it over with.
I now have a 27inch TN panel on the way in the mail. I also would not recommend any 16:9 screen smaller than 25-26 inches.
