Backlight on Samsung 27"

hornetstinger · 4 Jan 2018 at 22:37

Bought a Samsung 27" 1440p and it's not even all over. It's a VA panel.

Wouldn't say I'm happy with it, as it is noticeable during black scenes in games.

Pocah · 5 Jan 2018 at 06:36

You should see an IPS then. I mean that looks fine. Bleed is a constant issue with IPS and to a lesser extent VA. There is no such thing as a perfect panel. Personally I prefer the better colour consistency of an IPS or VA to a TN even though there may be bleed. In fairness though a lot of people really hate bleed. I think more monitors are returned for bleed than anything else.

Vimes · 5 Jan 2018 at 10:23

Pocah said:
You should see an IPS then. I mean that looks fine. Bleed is a constant issue with IPS and to a lesser extent VA. There is no such thing as a perfect panel. Personally I prefer the better colour consistency of an IPS or VA to a TN even though there may be bleed. In fairness though a lot of people really hate bleed. I think more monitors are returned for bleed than anything else.

+1

I would love to see that, on either of my IPS monitors. Both my Dell or BenQ would be shamed if I should take a photo of a blackened screen. Thankfully I do not see that in my typical use. But I much prefer an IPS screen, overall.

Sadly IPS, VA and TN panels all have their typical issues, just some are more of an issue than others.
You just have to pick the appropriate type for your needs, and then roll the dice to play the panel lottery game.

When I had a 3440x1440 34" Samsung VA screen mine showed something similar to yours OP.
But I ended up sending it back for other reasons.

Davanius · 5 Jan 2018 at 12:15

That is a decent example from what I have seen personally.

What brightness setting are you using?

hornetstinger · 5 Jan 2018 at 12:16

35. I've adjusted the above photo in photoshop (brightness) because on camera it looks far worse than it is (overexposed)

mods1965 · 5 Jan 2018 at 12:23

I have the C27HG7 with a 1080 Ti, so Brightness is greyed out as Picture Mode is set to FPS. I see bleed like this when the source is turned off, but I do not notice it in Windows or games.
I never noticed it when I had my R9 290 last month either.
If you see it in game, then you may want to consider returning it, as it is just going to bother you as time goes by.

hornetstinger · 5 Jan 2018 at 12:28

Photo in FPS mode. Curtains drawn, photo not editted in photoshop.

Davanius · 5 Jan 2018 at 12:33

Snip.

Davanius · 5 Jan 2018 at 12:42

Sorry my mistake as that second one in total darkness shouldn't look like that.

Here's mine at 35 percent.

Your first picture has some reflections but the second is more telling.

I am going to edit my reply to not cause confusion.

jaju123 · 5 Jan 2018 at 13:16

I've given up on the concept of a perfect panel. Until 120hz 4k OLED panels come out, we are stuck with these kind of pitfalls. Even with OLED, we will still have issues like PWM and image retention for the foreseeable future too...

Minstadave · 5 Jan 2018 at 13:20

jaju123 said:
I've given up on the concept of a perfect panel. Until 120hz 4k OLED panels come out, we are stuck with these kind of pitfalls. Even with OLED, we will still have issues like PWM and image retention for the foreseeable future too...

Plenty of reports of dead pixels too on OLED TVs.