Originally posted by: Montius
I haven't checked this thread in a while, and last time I did there was pretty high praise for the FP241W. I've still got my 2407WFP-HC sitting here, with the return slip beside it. So what's come up on the BenQ?
Well the BenQ has (at least some units have) blackout problems. It blacks out once in a while during usage with some graphics card configurations, and BenQ so far has not dealt with it AFAIK. Doesn't sound too good to me.
Originally posted by: duderino
Amazing thread guys! I stumbled on this while researching the Gateway FHD2400 and wanted to see what you guys thought, now that there IS a review on it out there. Don't know how reputable the ExtremeTech reviews are, but they just did one on this on this monitor here: http://www.extremetech.com/art.../0,1558,2213483,00.asp
So I was all geared up to buy this monitor last weekend until i asked the last salesman at CompUSA his opinion on it. He scoffed and told me to get an LG or Samsung instead. When i asked why he put the monitor on a greyish screen, flipped it to the portrait orientation and you could pretty clearly see uneven brightness from one side of the screen to the other (I guess flipping it sideways like that makes it easier to distinguish?). he also said the backlight wasn't as good as the LG or Samsungs there. Now I've read about the LG's problems in this thread, and I trust that the Samsung is a good alternative (this was the 245BW at CompUSA), but that Gateway just jumps out so nice with that glossy screen. Of the whole row of monitors in the display this one was clearly the most vibrant one of the lot. The contrast was amazing. Maybe it's just a glossy thing.
I'm going to be using the monitor primarily for photo editing, for both print and web, so color accuracy needs to be good. I don't do any gaming. I really don't want to spend more than $600 on a monitor, yet i really want at least 24" in size. I read in the review that this monitor can be tuned pretty well and they seem to really like it. is this uneven brightness something that can be tuned out of a monitor?
Just wanted to bounce my thoughts off you guys, perhaps make it an easier decision for me. thanks for the help!
Uneven brightness can not easily be tuned out of a display with most tools available to people today. Of course, there's nothing preventing you from making a driver to measure the lowest point of luminance on your monitor and tune the rest of the screen with a per-pixel gamma table to achieve the same luminance. Unfortunately, that brightness compensation is only available in some high-end NEC/Eizo models.
The LG (TN) looks fine if you like glossy screens. Otherwise I might try the HP LP2465. It's hard to say though. I haven't seen either in real life. I just think the LP2465 would be more to my liking because of wider viewing angles and better color.