Beiträge von RanZ

thanks shoggy.

I checked at work today and most of the LCD monitors (mainly the cheep ones) had a much worse black glowing in the dark. so I guess my monitor is OK. I just won't use it in complete darkness.

As for the contrast bars - the difference between the last two is noticable when looking quite carfully and is more noticable in some angle off the center (i.e. when scrolling the bar to the top or bottom of the screen). again I checked this with other monitors and it was quite the same if not worse.

I also tried the Nokia monitor test:
to see the gray shades there, and i could see clearly the 2%, and the 1% was harder to notice (again, it depends a little of the viewing angle like described above). The other monitors I checked were worse at this test - could only see the 3%-5% clearly.

I think my monitor is OK after all. I guess I was a little perfectionist after buying an EIZO. besides, this monitor has been already replaced after the first one had a bad sub-pixel.

thanks
Ran.

Thanks.

It is my first LCD, so I didn't know that its a technology issue. My CRT (and TV) looks best in the dark.
I'll try to take a look at some other monitors at work or at a computer store (It's hard to believe that a computer store will be willing to blank out for me...).

BTW: what brightness and gamma values you use?
also, the s1910 does not allow to set the contrast, unlike other screens - which is strage.

I was trying to calibrate my monitor using this page:
and it was quite hard to notice the differece between the two darkest rectangles (on the default gamma 2.2 setting). lowering the gamma to 1.8 made the colors too bright. the darks were more noticable when looking at them slightly indirectly. - is it like that with your s1910 also?

thanks again
Ran

Hello,

Recently I got my new Eizo S1910.
When I use it in a dark room (at night, with light off) to see a movie or a picture which does not fill the screen - due to the wide aspect ratio (i.e. leave black stripes on the top and bottom of the screen), the black stripes are not that black... I can see the screen's backlight through them.

The screen is set to be in the "movie mode" or "picture mode" and the contrast is set to be 30% - 50% (no contrast setting will show true black).

when I turn on the light in the room, the problem doesn't exist, and the background looks black.

Does anyone have the same problem? is it common on LCDs, and specifically on the s1910?

Thanks,
Ran.