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Hmm....I don't know about that. If you're sitting directly in front of the monitor, unless it's tiled back or forward at and extreme angle, the left or right side of the screen should be as white as the rest of the screen. TN panel viewing angles are especially bad if you're look at the monitor from above or below, and you can even notice a difference in coloring from the top to the bottom of the screen if you're directly in front of it. However, the left and right side should look pretty much like the center of the screen, and should never look "brown".
It's just not acceptable or am I too demanding ?
same here, but I think it is because of the different viewing angle between the centre of the screen and the corners. If you move your head to the left or right do the darker areas disappear accordingly?I took a picture of my screen on which you can see darker areas in the corners...It's just not acceptable or am I too demanding ?
It depends, do you notice it during normal use?
same here, but I think it is because of the different viewing angle between the centre of the screen and the corners. If you move your head to the left or right do the darker areas disappear accordingly?
This one just went on sale today at Best Buy, $329... think I'll go bug a sales guy and see if I can dig up an S panel... if not I'll give that calibration thing a whirl and see if it's any good, otherwise I'll just have to return it. Wish me luck!
So after a while, I managed to get the colors on this C panel to what I wanted (with room for improvement in the future). However, I have found that the panel suffers from a Mura effect. The top half of the screen is much darker than the bottom brighter half, the screen also has dark spots in the corners.
Quite a disappointment, gonna exchange it out and hope the LCD gods smile upon me
I was wondering if people with the S panel could tell me:
What do does Divx Movies (high quality ones not crappy 100mb ones) look like? i have heard they are quite blocky and the screen isnt suited for viewing these?
What do DVD's look like? Are they blocky?
Please only interested in S panel owners.
many thanks
Bryan,
The panel that we supply is the S Panel.
Regards
Mark Bennett
Hey, great thread - to the extent I actually read most of it.
What remains is a weird issue where in games, it just doesn't seem that the frame is updating as fast as it should be - despite them being games my card (a 8800 GTS 320mb) handles without breaking a sweat (UT2004, and HL2 specifically); fraps reports a consistent fps of 60. There's just a general swimminess that seems like it's framing, especially if I look around quickly. I'm not 100% sure if this is the same issue, but I found something that sounds consistent here:
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=734928&r=11552371#r11552371
If I do that colour pallette test I get the same weird bricking appearing in the pallette - in fact, even moving windows arounds doesn't seem nearly as smooth as it should be for a pseudo- (yes, I know about the RTA) 2ms screen. So here are my questions:
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=734928&r=11552371#r11552371
If I do that colour pallette test I get the same weird bricking appearing in the pallette - in fact, even moving windows arounds doesn't seem nearly as smooth as it should be for a pseudo- (yes, I know about the RTA) 2ms screen. So here are my questions:
Thanks in advance.
Hi,
This is in response to the DVD quality question.
With my A panel, there was a lot of blockiness.
With the S panel, the quality is very good, even with any sort of calibration.
I can't comment about DivX as haven't used it on this panel yey.
Hope that helps.
svgtom, I saw that article too. I found it after I had returned my A panel and was waiting for a replacement to ship to me. As soon as I hooked up my new C panel though, I saw no more twinkling or blockiness. I did not make any video card setting changes in between.I'm curious about this because pretty much every article I've ever read mentioned that blockiness with DVDs is the one big weakness with TN panels. What would make the S panel any different?
After calibration, the only problem I have with my A panel is blockiness with DVDs and "high quality" video from web sites such as the major networks. HD clips show a little grain here and there but are otherwise fine.
I came across this article earlier tonight which says that the key to resolving blockiness lies with your graphics card.
http://www.behardware.com/articles/...t-the-twinkling-effect-of-lcds-in-movies.html
My PC is a few years old and I realized I haven't updated the graphics card driver for quite a while. I plan on doing this tomorrow to see if it makes any difference.
Are you running Windows? What are you using to set the resolution? You should be able to pick resolutions from the Control Panel display applet. I know my screen was originally running at 1280x1024 before I manually changed it to 1680x1050. Your video driver software might also allow you to set custom resolutions.Uh, is there any way I can set the monitor to run at 1440 x 900? In Windows and/or games.
Apologies if it's a stupid option, but I can't seem to set the resolution to anything but 1680x1050, or one of many non-widescreen variants. Is that normal?