Duragezic:
Are those dead pixels on your monitor? LOL. See this is something that drives me crazy. Most of us consumers have put up with DELL - what if everyone starts returning their monitors the way I did? I am sure DELL will have to fix their s.h.i.t. But anyway, I guess am done badmouthing DELL.
The Gateway panel has been on for 3 about hours now, and it has gone warm: There is no backlight bleed at brightness 100 and contrast 100 - the optimal setting is brightness 80 and contrast 50. Now to the bad parts (at least for some of you):
The panel doesn't support a feature that is similar to DELL's where a game can run in a windowed form at lower resolution. Most of the older games can be modded, thanks to our friends at widescreengamingforum. Also, the zoom features of the monitor, albeit 1:!, Wide, Zoom, and Panoramic modes are only available at a signal lower than 480p. This menu was disabled for all the inputs that I tried - the panel automatically activates it when it recognizes a compatible source. The s_video feature of this menu gives a perfect picture from my cable box (its all thanks to the FAROUDJA chip). The menu is OSD one of the most best menus I have ever encountered. The software, EzTune, is robust, too. I can't believe DELL never supplied such a software with their panel. The only thing I have to check on this panel is its HD capability - I have a DVD player that upconverts the DVD image to 720p and 1080i. I'll check it when I get some time. But other than the inability to run a game in its native resolution with bars on the sides, and the screwed up packaging, I think Gateway has a winner on its hands. I am buying another one of these panels for my brother on Monday.
I must say I am quite impressed with the software EzTune - it is helps to set the display to make it look optimal. The built quality of the panel is awesome - it doesn't have any lose ends around the screen like the 2005FPW DELL panels I have encountered. As a bonus, The LED has a "Day" and a "Nite" mode - it dims itself if you set it to "Nite."
/me stabs DELL.
/me is impressed with Gateway's effort - it pretty much took the 2005FPW, listened to people's woes, improved the quality and increased the features of the 2005FPW, and put it on the market at a decent price.
Are those dead pixels on your monitor? LOL. See this is something that drives me crazy. Most of us consumers have put up with DELL - what if everyone starts returning their monitors the way I did? I am sure DELL will have to fix their s.h.i.t. But anyway, I guess am done badmouthing DELL.
The Gateway panel has been on for 3 about hours now, and it has gone warm: There is no backlight bleed at brightness 100 and contrast 100 - the optimal setting is brightness 80 and contrast 50. Now to the bad parts (at least for some of you):
The panel doesn't support a feature that is similar to DELL's where a game can run in a windowed form at lower resolution. Most of the older games can be modded, thanks to our friends at widescreengamingforum. Also, the zoom features of the monitor, albeit 1:!, Wide, Zoom, and Panoramic modes are only available at a signal lower than 480p. This menu was disabled for all the inputs that I tried - the panel automatically activates it when it recognizes a compatible source. The s_video feature of this menu gives a perfect picture from my cable box (its all thanks to the FAROUDJA chip). The menu is OSD one of the most best menus I have ever encountered. The software, EzTune, is robust, too. I can't believe DELL never supplied such a software with their panel. The only thing I have to check on this panel is its HD capability - I have a DVD player that upconverts the DVD image to 720p and 1080i. I'll check it when I get some time. But other than the inability to run a game in its native resolution with bars on the sides, and the screwed up packaging, I think Gateway has a winner on its hands. I am buying another one of these panels for my brother on Monday.
I must say I am quite impressed with the software EzTune - it is helps to set the display to make it look optimal. The built quality of the panel is awesome - it doesn't have any lose ends around the screen like the 2005FPW DELL panels I have encountered. As a bonus, The LED has a "Day" and a "Nite" mode - it dims itself if you set it to "Nite."
/me stabs DELL.
/me is impressed with Gateway's effort - it pretty much took the 2005FPW, listened to people's woes, improved the quality and increased the features of the 2005FPW, and put it on the market at a decent price.