Soldato
@PCM2: how's the review coming along? i'm debating whether i should pick another another one up and hope that the light bands are not as prominent or are not there at all, or wait for your review.
not too keen on the panel lottery....
In a word; slowly. I'm in the process of moving house so don't have very much time to review monitors at the moment. Which tears me up inside.
I am not sure if I have really spotted this banding issue on my unit yet. I can sort of see a few marginally darker bands if I look at the monitor from an angle (even on this medium-dark blue OcUK background whilst posting this). And if I go on Paint as you suggested and fill the screen with grey then move the window around I can see perhaps the faintest bands in places.
Having not seen a 'bad sample' myself I can't really compare this but from what I've seen on this unit there isn't really an issue with the bands on it. I haven't played any games yet though, they might pop out more then. But it seems there is something of a fun panel lottery going on. I can completely understand your dilemma. This monitor has a heck of a lot going for it from what I've seen already just on the desktop. It's one of the nicest VA panels I've seen for image quality and it is just like a massive 24" 1920 x 1080 monitor with extra pixels and space in the right proportion.