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Goat said:yea, everytime I use the monitor for web browsing (especially darker pages) I consider returning it because of the color difference from the bottom and the top of the screen. But once I play CS:S or Everquest2, I want to carry with me whereever I go . Oh well. I'm thinking I'll use it for a year or two then get one of those < 8ms samsung PVA panels when they're a reasonable price.
burningrave101 said:I think you just need to adjust the monitor tilt or sit up straight in your chair cause when your viewing the LCD with your eye level above the top of the LCD i dont see any brightness differences with the top and bottom of the screen.
It all has to do with the viewing angles of the LCD and nothing to do with backlighting.
Trust me, I've tried every position imaginable. it's still there no matter what. I love the monitor other than the brightness thing and if more people aren't noticing it, then maybe i can get a replacement from newegg.burningrave101 said:I think you just need to adjust the monitor tilt or sit up straight in your chair cause when your viewing the LCD with your eye level above the top of the LCD i dont see any brightness differences with the top and bottom of the screen.
It all has to do with the viewing angles of the LCD and nothing to do with backlighting.
From my experience with TN panels, all of them have the same problem with top of the screen being darker than the bottom. It's just a nature of TN panels since their viewing angles are so narrow that even when you sit directly in front of the screen you can see some colorshift because you are looking at the top and bottom of the screen at an angle. When you view the monitor with your eye level above the top of the screen as burningrave suggested, everything will look slightly washed out, especially the bottom of the screen. There is no "sweet spot" at all IMO. Those who say they don't have that problem just aren't noticing it so replacing it wouldn't be a good idea if you're satisfied with everything else (dead pixels, backlight uniformity etc.).Goat said:
It's normal for all TN panels, not all LCD screens. But if it's only brighter on the right or left side then there is something wrong with your monitor, probably the backlight is leaking. The bottom of the screen being brighter than the top is caused by too narrow vertical viewing angles and there is really nothing you can do about it except to buy a monitor based on VA or IPS panel which have much wider viewing angles.sparks said:This is my first LCD and althought I was amazed at how much better games look on this thing compared to my 3 yr old crt I still don't understand the light.
I assume that there is a light in the lower right of the monitor that lights up the rest of the screen. To me it looks like someone is shining a flashlight on the screen from the lower right of my desk.
I only see this on the desktop, and of course like this web page the bottom of the screen is brighter than the top.
Some say this is normal to ALL LCD screens...is this true?
Is it something you get used to or is there some settings that will help with this ?
I have lowered the brightness down to 50 and 90 on contrast and this helps some.
Now its only the lower 1/3 of the screen that is brighter than the rest.
10+ yrs of lcd's and this is the best they can do?
poor showing in my noob experience with them
want to say I am not flaming hyundai as the overall quality of the thing with 0 dead and/or stuck pixels was nice to see. and as I said I am new to lcd and it might be all of them are this way.
sparks