Asus PG279Q Bleed

Jasoncmor

Jasoncmor

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Hi all.

I have an Asus PG279Q monitor, which is amazing but i've got back light bleed, i think, but just wanted to ask what other owners think about it.
This is the first IPS panel monitor i've owned so not 100% sure on what to expect.

I took a couple of pics, firstly with the brightness down, and secondly with the brightness turned up.

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Obviously camera phone makes it look worse than it is, but its still very noticeable on a dark screen.

Kind regards
Jason
 
Glow and bleed are an issue with IPS but personally I just try not to look, lol. Thing is, if you go looking for them, they ain't pretty! But under normal circumstances it shouldn't bother you. Firstly, that is a bright monitor so in a darkened room your brightness should be somewhere around 50-70%, which will reduce the effect. Sure there will be a greying of blacks, but that's why IPS can't manage amazing contrast. It is very typical for light to leak out at the corners. Rather that's just your viewing angle. And, incidentally, I tend to find that the best viewing angle with IPS is from a few inches below center. So ever so slightly looking upwards at it. I mean it's difficult to tell because a camera will make it look brighter than it really is, but it looks fairly typical. I guess it comes down to whether you can live with it or not. I have to concede that many people return IPS monitors because they don't like Glow and bleed, but personally I find that far less distracting than colour shifts associated with TN panels.
 
Most of that is ips glow.

Impossible to tell if that is bad or not.

I have my brightness down at about 17. As that is what my calibration resulted in.
 
Thanks for your reply.
I doesn't bother me too much as I don't really notice it when i'm playing games as I rarely have a black screen, but I know its there so it slightly annoys me, but the colour reproduction is a huge bonus so i guess it out weighs the bleed.
 
I've contacted Asus and showed them the same pictures, but they are telling me to RMA the monitor.

Is it worth doing an RMA or am i going to get another one which is just as bad?
 
Probably wasting your time with RMA's look at the reviews on the rainforest for these and the Acer Predator XB271HU same panel, They are plagued.
 
The real danger is that you will send it back and get one worse. Only time I ever sent a monitor back it happened to me. No monitor is perfect. Every IPS monitor suffers from Glow. Unless you find yourself with chronic insomnia then I would just accept it as probably being better than the one they will send you as a replacement.
 
Thanks for your replies guys.

I cant notice it at all when I'm on the internet or playing games so I will just ignore it.

Thanks all.
 
I have the PG348Q and it suffers from some glow in the corners, i discovered that pushing the glow gently towards the corner with a micro fibre cloth can be useful for nearly completly removing it. Mine was reduced by about 80% by doing that.
 
Depends on how lucky you are.

Out of most of the PG279Q's I've tested a lot of them had some serious yellow tinting at the top of the screen on white backgrounds. If you havent got that with this panel then i wouldnt really bother RMA unless its bothering you.

Took me several panels and tries to get one i was happy with. My current acer 27in 165hz is pretty spot on with minimal bleed (next to none) and accurate white balance.
 
I have one of these monitors and must say when looking for it the backlight bleed looks really poor but when I'm using my PC, be it gaming or whatever I don't actually notice it.

Considering how poor the QC is on monitors these days I'll take a bit of backlight bleed over dead pixels any day!
 
BLB (backlight bleed) in these panels if awful, I had to keep sending them back. In my quest to find a decent 1440p IPS gsync monitor, I went through two PG279Q, one (maybe two?) Viewsonic XG2703-XS and two Acer Predator XB271HU. All the panels come from the same manufacturer, AU Optronics, and there's only 2 currently in use, a normal and a thin bezel one. The panels have the same spec though. This basically means you have zero options, all you're choosing from is brand name, the OSD (settings menu etc.), design and brand quality control.

Of the 5 or 6 monitors I tried, only the Acer ones were decent. The first Acer was great, but it had a couple of dead pixels. The second Acer, though, is a champ and the one I kept, it has the smallest amount of BLB in the bottom middle. It's only visible against a black screen in a pitch black room though. I also have an Acer 1440p freesync monitor that has zero BLB. Acer was the last company I tried as I kept reading about the awful BLB people found with 1440p IPS gsync Acer's. However, my experience tells me otherwise. I appreciate that 3 monitors isn't exactly a huge sample to base an opinion on, though.

As an aside, these panels also have a white balance problem, specifically towards the left and right edges of the screen. If it's bad enough, you'll see it as a slight pink hue. I tested the ones I sent back with a screen calibration tool, with a calibrated temperature of 6500k in the middle of the screen, towards the edges it could get as cold as 9000k.

They really are awful panels all round, I look forward to a new wave of better designed panels from LG and the likes.
 
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