On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 05:22:57PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
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.
OK, good! :-)
CCL haven't complained about me returning it so I think that will go smoothly. CCL have always seemed pretty straightforward.
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.
Glad to hear it looks good to you. I certainly thought it looked pretty good when I first turned it on too, it probably has more contrast than my Dell 2001FP, certainly it was 'brighter looking'. *All* the reviews complain about how bright it's set when you open the box though.
So maybe we have difference expectations/tolerances to these things.
Probably! :-)
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.
I have just spent almost exactly that (twice as much that is) on a Dell U2410. It's from an Ebay supplier so I was able to use my 10% discount voucher on Ebay (which expires tomorrow) which brings the price down to £336. Since it's a company purchase (I was a contractor and my wife still works through the business) I recover the VAT too so that's another 15% less.
The U2410 is an H-IPS screen so should be as good as my old 2001FP, reviews seem very good.
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.
No, I was using DVI-D and I think most of the issue was viewing angle. If I tipped the screen way back (more than it will adjust) and looked at it from 45 degrees off centre *below* centre then the colour and contrast were more consistent across the screen. Maybe I was just seeing a bad batch.
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
I think it depends quite a lot on the quality of the drivers in the graphics card (as in the electronics that is) and the length of the cable. My 2001FP looked pretty good at 1600x1200 in VGA until something died and it acquired a permanent blue/green cast.