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LCD Displays
I couldn't find a display/monitor group so I'll try here.
I have a Samsung 172N LCD display. So far I'm not real pleased with it. It's fine for everything except black on white text. If it's displaying black on white text and move the window horizontally the test will appear to become lighter and darker in waves as it's moved across the screen. I don't get the same affect while scrolling or moving the text vertically. The end result is that text will be either light or dark depend on where it falls along the horizontal axis. It's almost like the difference between normal and bolded text in MS Word. Very annoying. In MS Word if I option it for white text on blue background and look horizontally along the text display it goes from pure white to bluish in waves with a period of about 1.75 inches. I'm using the native resolution of 1280 X 1024. Any text smoothing effects like ClearType don't seem to make any difference. Is this something inherent in the display, improperly setup or something else. I've played around with display settings and different resolutions. Lower resolutions have a set of problem all their own. I'm using a Matrox G400 graphics card which has excellent text quality on any CRT monitor I've tried with it. Any suggestions or is this just welcome to LCD displays? |
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Bishoop wrote:
I couldn't find a display/monitor group so I'll try here. I have a Samsung 172N LCD display. So far I'm not real pleased with it. It's fine for everything except black on white text. If it's displaying black on white text and move the window horizontally the test will appear to become lighter and darker in waves as it's moved across the screen. I don't get the same affect while scrolling or moving the text vertically. The end result is that text will be either light or dark depend on where it falls along the horizontal axis. It's almost like the difference between normal and bolded text in MS Word. Very annoying. In MS Word if I option it for white text on blue background and look horizontally along the text display it goes from pure white to bluish in waves with a period of about 1.75 inches. I'm using the native resolution of 1280 X 1024. Any text smoothing effects like ClearType don't seem to make any difference. Is this something inherent in the display, improperly setup or something else. I've played around with display settings and different resolutions. Lower resolutions have a set of problem all their own. I'm using a Matrox G400 graphics card which has excellent text quality on any CRT monitor I've tried with it. Any suggestions or is this just welcome to LCD displays? The fix is very simple. You just need to adjust the "image lock". I suggest you dl the nokia tester and display the fine text test before performing the adjustment. ftp://ftp.fluidlight.com/pub/nospin_files/Nokia.zip Start by adjusting the the coarse first until you see the fuzzy lines change multiples and then direction. Then fine tune as required. By the way the 172N kicks ass. After borrowing a 172 I got a 192N for Cad which has the same native res but slightly larger pixel for those older eyes. I noticed the 192 does a much better job of auto setting the image lock than the 172 but manually setting it still yields the sharpest image of all the LCDs I tested. |
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"tomcas" wrote in message ... | Bishoop wrote: | | I couldn't find a display/monitor group so I'll try here. | | I have a Samsung 172N LCD display. So far I'm not real pleased with it. | It's fine for everything except black on white text. | | If it's displaying black on white text and move the window horizontally the | test will appear to become lighter and darker in waves as it's moved across | the screen. I don't get the same affect while scrolling or moving the text | vertically. | | The end result is that text will be either light or dark depend on where it | falls along the horizontal axis. It's almost like the difference between | normal and bolded text in MS Word. Very annoying. | | In MS Word if I option it for white text on blue background and look | horizontally along the text display it goes from pure white to bluish in | waves with a period of about 1.75 inches. | | I'm using the native resolution of 1280 X 1024. Any text smoothing effects | like ClearType don't seem to make any difference. | | Is this something inherent in the display, improperly setup or something | else. | | I've played around with display settings and different resolutions. Lower | resolutions have a set of problem all their own. | | I'm using a Matrox G400 graphics card which has excellent text quality on | any CRT monitor I've tried with it. | | Any suggestions or is this just welcome to LCD displays? | | | | | The fix is very simple. You just need to adjust the "image lock". I | suggest you dl the nokia tester and display the fine text test before | performing the adjustment. | ftp://ftp.fluidlight.com/pub/nospin_files/Nokia.zip | Start by adjusting the the coarse first until you see the fuzzy lines | change multiples and then direction. Then fine tune as required. By the | way the 172N kicks ass. After borrowing a 172 I got a 192N for Cad which | has the same native res but slightly larger pixel for those older | eyes. I noticed the 192 does a much better job of auto setting the image | lock than the 172 but manually setting it still yields the sharpest | image of all the LCDs I tested. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I had played with the image lock previous to my posting except with a much smaller area of text that the Nokia utility provides. Under these conditions I could seen what was happening during adjustment. I already had the Nokia program but never used it with the new Samsung. As soon as I filled the whole screen with the Nokia text pattern and started fooling with the image lock, viola, super clean black on white text, As a further test he blue on white is crystal clear also. Now I'm a happy camper.... |
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Thank you, thank you, thank you. I had played with the image lock previous to my posting except with a much smaller area of text that the Nokia utility provides. Under these conditions I could seen what was happening during adjustment. I already had the Nokia program but never used it with the new Samsung. As soon as I filled the whole screen with the Nokia text pattern and started fooling with the image lock, viola, super clean black on white text, As a further test he blue on white is crystal clear also. Now I'm a happy camper.... Now here's the kicker. When I first had this problem I emailed Samsung's tech support requesting help. The guy who responded several days later suggested I do things like update my video driver. I thanked him for his quick response, told him that wasn't the problem but I had found it just the same, and suggested they add it to their FAQs which 2 months later they have yet to do. Thankfully, Samsung does a much better job designing and building LCDs then they do supporting them. Kind of reminds me of Asus. |
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