21.9 Ultrawide Thread

Amraam · 10 Apr 2017 at 20:31

ghutchison14078 said:
That looks pretty good, I cant really make out any backlight bleed, and that IPS glow from the bottom left is well within what you'd expect from a 34 curved IPS.

I'd say thats a keeper.

Yeah I thought so too. There is a patch at the top left, that covers about 6" and stretches 1-2" into the screen, but it's a LOT better than my first one.

Nexus18 · 10 Apr 2017 at 21:07

That looks ok to me, pretty sure the bottom is back light bleed and not IPS glow though? Backlight bleed always has that orange/yellow hue where as IPS glow is just a "glow" i.e. white/light grey look on blacks, at least in my experience anyway.

It is odd how it always seems to be the left side that is the most problematic for bleed and IPS glow issues :/

ghutchison14078 · 10 Apr 2017 at 21:34

I've currently got the Dell 3415, I got a very decent panel but I'm itching to get a 100Hz Gsync ultrawide.

I'm hanging off until the Acer X34P and hopefully the Samsung 34" Quantum dot gsync monitors release this year, then I'll make my buying decision and play the panel lottery!

iSaff · 10 Apr 2017 at 22:04

ghutchison14078 said:
I'm hanging off until the Acer X34P and hopefully the Samsung 34" Quantum dot gsync monitors release this year, then I'll make my buying decision and play the panel lottery!

Is the Acer X34P still on for Q3, or has it been put on ice for 2017 in favour of the Z35P at the end of the month?

ghutchison14078 · 10 Apr 2017 at 22:45

iSaff said:
Is the Acer X34P still on for Q3, or has it been put on ice for 2017 in favour of the Z35P at the end of the month?

No idea, info on the X34P has just dried up.

iSaff · 10 Apr 2017 at 23:01

ghutchison14078 said:
No idea, info on the X34P has just dried up.

That was what an Acer rep. apparently told a reddit user recently, who posted a screenshot of the conversation, but their Spanish twitter accounts from Feb. 1 stated the X34P is slated for June, which goes along with their other social media accounts, but who knows!

Neloz · 11 Apr 2017 at 09:08

The fact that it almost seems blasé to return the x34a a few times to get a decent one just seems so mind boggling to me. Yes let me just smack down £900 on a monitor and know that I'll have to send it back a few times to get a good one; what on earth went wrong?

For me I think I'll wait for the Omen; it seems like a good all round and to extend the 1 year warranty to 3 is £15.

ghutchison14078 · 11 Apr 2017 at 10:52

Neloz said:
The fact that it almost seems blasé to return the x34a a few times to get a decent one just seems so mind boggling to me. Yes let me just smack down £900 on a monitor and know that I'll have to send it back a few times to get a good one; what on earth went wrong?

For me I think I'll wait for the Omen; it seems like a good all round and to extend the 1 year warranty to 3 is £15.

The HP Omen is also an interesting option

MooMoo444 · 12 Apr 2017 at 11:22

Neloz said:
The fact that it almost seems blasé to return the x34a a few times to get a decent one just seems so mind boggling to me. Yes let me just smack down £900 on a monitor and know that I'll have to send it back a few times to get a good one; what on earth went wrong?

For me I think I'll wait for the Omen; it seems like a good all round and to extend the 1 year warranty to 3 is £15.

I think if they invested into fixing issues, the price would shoot up. It's probably costly to scrap a whole panel because of a dead pixel or a little bleed.

ChrisD. · 12 Apr 2017 at 11:27

My LG is pretty bad with backlight bleed, it's already been sent back once but I fancy buying a new monitor with G sync.

Nexus18 · 12 Apr 2017 at 11:45

MooMoo444 said:
I think if they invested into fixing issues, the price would shoot up. It's probably costly to scrap a whole panel because of a dead pixel or a little bleed.

The problem is, prices have already shot up because of the amount of people returning the screens, due to the retailers losing money on CCR/RMA returns:

Gibbo said:
Backlight bleed within reason like dead pixels is not a fault, so I guess it depends how they are feeling, LOL. Of course CCR can be used but legally if they believe it is used and cannot be resold they can essentially charge you a restocking fee (upto 25%).

I suspect the monitor price increases at etailers across the board is coming from increased returns on CCR due to backlight bleed, some people have good reason, the bleed is beyond acceptable, others returning for IPS glow and doing it several times over.

We keep CCR restocking charges to an absolute minimum, but it means we end up with a huge amount of B-grade monitors sold a big losses to the company, so we either increase upfront margin to cover it or we start implementing more CCR restocking fees.

On another note we have also applied huge pressure on certain manufacturers to start taking returns on monitors for excessive bleed so the retailer is not the ones getting stung.

So we are already paying for monitor manufacturers incompetence

Also, back light bleed is mostly always caused by the chassis/surrounding assembly, i.e. usually being too tight so they wouldn't need to scrap the panel, just take it apart and redo the tightening etc. A lot of 34um95 owners did this themselves.

MooMoo444 · 12 Apr 2017 at 12:23

Nexus18 said:
The problem is, prices have already shot up because of the amount of people returning the screens, due to the retailers losing money on CCR/RMA returns:

So we are already paying for monitor manufacturers incompetence

Also, back light bleed is mostly always caused by the chassis/surrounding assembly, i.e. usually being too tight so they wouldn't need to scrap the panel, just take it apart and redo the tightening etc. A lot of 34um95 owners did this themselves.

Interesting that you can DIY it. I don't think I'd have the guts on such an expensive item.

Nexus18 · 14 Apr 2017 at 11:01

These look nice on 21.9 and IPS:

http://imgur.com/a/pykeV

ChrisD. · 14 Apr 2017 at 15:23

Ta, new background.

Phixsator · 14 Apr 2017 at 20:27

Ive been having an eye on the sammy cf791 for a while but its just way out of my league for now.. So darn tired of TN that im considering something smaller like the lg 29um68.. problem with that is however ive read a reddit discussion saying that the um68 models have higher input lag compared to the um67 which are no where to be found.

Nexus18 · 15 Apr 2017 at 10:22

The new UI for youtube works very nicely for 21.9 videos now:

16.9 videos:

21.9 videos:

Random Guy Esq. · 15 Apr 2017 at 20:50

New Philips model on the way - 349X7FJEW. Nothing overly exciting, imo.

nox_uk · 15 Apr 2017 at 20:55

warranty...

JediFragger · 15 Apr 2017 at 21:34

Random Guy Esq. said:
New Philips model on the way - 349X7FJEW. Nothing overly exciting, imo.

Doesn't this have Freesync + 100Hz? Seems pretty decent to me (although the stand looks a bit weird!)

Random Guy Esq. · 15 Apr 2017 at 21:42

JediFragger said:
Doesn't this have Freesync + 100Hz? Seems pretty decent to me (although the stand looks a bit weird!)

Spec sheet says 60Hz, but then I noticed it also says vertical refresh range is 40-100Hz... And I just read that price is expected to be circa £750. Interest levels raised!

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