Chris G wrote:
Well if you have serious problems you can always have mine! :-)
I've not actually rturned it to CCL yet.
Thanks but it arrived today.
I must say personally I am impressed. Yes if you stand up over it the contrast changes wildly but over my regular viewing angles it's fine. I can't reproduce the colour imbalance you described (I use irssi which also has blue bands top and bottom) or notice the fuzzy text at the bottom, and after you mentioned these things I was actively looking for them.
It's definitely got a better contrast than my old benq panel, viewing angle is about the same and the colour profile out of the box seems better. The benq had a problem not so much with the default colour temperature but the linearity was a bit strange, you could have good darks or reasonable accurate colour but not both at the same time. The LG is far better in this respect. In fact the only thing I found wrong out of the box was the brightness was set way too high.
So maybe we have difference expectations/tolerances to these things.
For me given that I would probably have to spend at least twice as much to get a similar size panel that was significantly better (which is more than I can reasonably justify given I spend a lot of time on the laptop downstairs) I am more than happy. Oh and I love the fact that unlike so many other screens I have used the stand is at a reasonable height, I generally find most sit the screen too low.
One thing that did strike me is that if you were using the analogue inputs then the fuzzyness could be explained by the clocks not being set right as that will give you fuzzyness at different points on the screen, also I haven't tested mine on analogue so it may perform significantly worse, although naturally that won't solve the viewing angle thing.
I'd hope though that you were uisng DVI as really anything over 1280x1024 is asking a bit much of VGA in my opinion, I remember back in the days of CRT having to perform hardware mods on consumer grade nvidia cards to get them to be usable without massive blurring at 1600x1200