Originally posted by: guidryp
Originally posted by: Armageddon415
How noticeable is the gradient problem under regular usage, movies, and gaming? It seems like people arent noticing it unless they are testing for it or are doing specific tasks.
Personally I wouldn't touch one with a ten foot pole. They are defective plain and simple. It will be hard to notice unless you compare because you will never know if the problem is the source or the monitor. Like you could be playing a game and never notice the banding in the sky until you go to a buddies house and see the sky as a smooth continuous tone.
Or you will comment on problems with photos you see online in a forum to be told that only you see them and to switch to 32 bit color (except you are already in 32 bit color).
Flip your graphics card to 16 bit color and use it a week that way. If you are happy with the results this monitor is for you. (right click desktop background, properties, settings, color quality Medium 16 bit, ok.
You would be surpised the number of people I see on photo forums complaining about artifacts in images that they see. Eventually people get them to check their computer and they are in 16 bit mode.
I've got one sitting right next to a 2005, and I never noticed it through a couple of days of testing the two monitors to decide which one to keep. It wasn't until I ran into this thread did I run this test. I honestly can say I would probably have never noticed it without these specialized tests, since I looked at pictures, played some HD clips, played some movies. And I was looking closely at PQ since I was still deciding which one to keep.
Since it appears to be a DVI issue, maybe it can be fixed through revisions. The blacklight bleeding is much better, and HDCP. Since I never really notice it during normal usage, I don't work with photos or graphics etc., it isn't a huge dealbreaker, but I would love for it to be fixed.
Click on each link below, and highlight the address and hit Enter, the picture should show up. If you look closely,you can see the banding on the second one. It is barely visible on these pics, but very prominent in person. As I said, I only notice it on these test patterns.
Test Image on 2005FPW
Test Image on 2007WFP