dragontales
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Got my LCD last Friday from newegg. And indeed, it was a S panel. So far so good.
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Got my LCD last Friday from newegg. And indeed, it was a S panel. So far so good.
Does anyone know if Newegg is still shipping S-panels? I bought the last one from CC yesterday, but then returned it unopened since it was a 201 wave with a date of March 19, 2007 on the box (which seemed to point to an A-panel). I ordered one from Newegg today with hopes that I would have a greater chance of getting an S-panel. Which model have people received in the last couple days? It looks like S-panels were still being shipped from Newegg as of 3/23/07.
Im curious dragontales, do you find the gloss black bezel to be distracting at all?
thanks
At least one person recently reported getting an "A" from the Egg.
I should get mine in a day or two....ordered Friday.
I wonder how big a batch Egg got of the S panels.
Im curious dragontales, do you find the gloss black bezel to be distracting at all?
thanks
bezel?
Ahh, one of my favorite aspects of this season's 24!Got my LCD last Friday from newegg. And indeed, it was a S panel. So far so good.
The one person who said they got an A panel from newegg is from California according to his profile.
It looks like the west coast warehouse has A panels, and the Tennessee and NJ warehouses have S panels. I have a 226bw arriving tomorrow via UPS from the Tennessee warehouse and I'll be able to validate at least that.
Crossing my fingers for the S.
I need some good setttings for this screen!
The shiny plastic trim thing around the screen.
Cliff! replace that crummy stand with this>>http://www.staples.com/webapp/wcs/s...ary&searchUnsumUrl=searchresults&fromUrl=home
stanleyjohn,
I think you were one of the people who said to calm down about the A panels and calibrate first.
your link is broke...but I'm assuming it will be for an Ergotron Neoflex. that's what I'm looking into now.
I just got my 226bw from Newegg. (shipped from California).
UPS got it to Vegas in 2 days.
Its an A panel.
Manufacture Date Feb 2007. China.
On the back, it says 226BW A
To be honest, I've run some pixel and some generic, gray/black and color tests......and I am not returning this monitor.
Its as beautiful as long as this thread is.
I'm sure when I get it calibrated properly with Spyder, it will even be better, but this is it for me.
*NO dead pixels.
Hurry up R600!
**Oh yeah...the stand (if you can call it that)....blows goat.
Does anyone know if Newegg is still shipping S-panels? I bought the last one from CC yesterday, but then returned it unopened since it was a 201 wave with a date of March 19, 2007 on the box (which seemed to point to an A-panel). I ordered one from Newegg today with hopes that I would have a greater chance of getting an S-panel. Which model have people received in the last couple days? It looks like S-panels were still being shipped from Newegg as of 3/23/07.
The one person who said they got an A panel from newegg is from California according to his profile.
It looks like the west coast warehouse has A panels, and the Tennessee and NJ warehouses have S panels. I have a 226bw arriving tomorrow via UPS from the Tennessee warehouse and I'll be able to validate at least that.
Crossing my fingers for the S.
That is very wierd because I live in Southern California and I ordered from NewEgg.
However, they sent me one from TN warehouse (mad cuz took 3 days instead of usual 1)
I still got the S Panel though.
Just had a question about Dynamic Contrast for this monitor..
I have backlight bleeding on a black screen with the lights out. (Brightness and Contrast are set to 75).
But when I switch to dynamic contrast, the backlight bleeding goes away.
Anyone have any clue?
That's why I'm really looking for widescreen, to eliminate the black bars altogether or atleast as much as possible..
So basically, since I've read some bad things about Samsung's monitors and video playback, can anyone recommend a better monitor in the same price range with similar specs?
In my opinion, this monitor gives perfect image quality once you lower the gamma to 0.75. All monitors come with high gamma and the black point suffers. With a simple gamma correction you get almost perfect black tones.
...and banding
Yeah, that's weird.
City of Industry is the norm for us in the West Coast....at least that's what I thought until now.
oh yeah...I remember the earlier panels had 226bw [R] 'S' or 'A'
Mine just has 226bw A, no [R]
Not sure if that means anything, but I have no problems with banding, backlight, etc. as previous A panels have *reported.* Only thing was it was disgustingly bright out of the box.
Again. Manufactured February 2007 in China.
You can never eliminate the black bars, even with a true 16:9 monitor. DVD's are encoded to 16:9, but most movies are shot even wider than that. To eliminate black bars in most movies you'd need something like a 25:9 monitor, which is nonexistant. Stop worrying about the bars and watch the movie. If you can concentrate on the black bars instead of the movie, it means the movie sucks. Find yourself some exciting movies and you'll for get the bars.
In my opinion, this monitor gives perfect image quality once you lower the gamma to 0.75. All monitors come with high gamma and the black point suffers. With a simple gamma correction you get almost perfect black tones.
The only problem with this monitor is that no matter from what angle you look, the bottom is brighter than the top.