BARGAIN - OcUK 24" with DVI (*VA Panel) for £179.99+VAT (This Week Only Deal!!)

mi9tchy · 1 Apr 2008 at 18:00

hdcp means you can connect a bluray player such as a ps3 to it

PaulProteus · 1 Apr 2008 at 18:08

Adrianr said:
Well it is definately a VA panel. So i don't have to send it back anywhere. It does have HDCP though im not sure of the practical benefit of this. Everything still looks like a screen to me.

Pictures and review to follow shortly

Oh and from what i can tell, not one dead pixel.

Is the panel M240UW01 V.3?

Adrianr · 1 Apr 2008 at 18:23

Yewp. Which is lower brightness than the V0 and V1, and 800:1 contrast rather than 1000:1. Brightness i dont much care for, as for photo work running it on full is a no-no, and it seems most properly calibrated PVAs end up with a contrast ratio lower than 800:1 anyway (Though im not sure if thats panel dependant, just something i've noticed). So for the money saved, spot on

I've also realised there isn't much point in me doing a review on it. It looks identical to the OCUK one bar saying "Yuraku" where that says DGM. Same case. Same stand. PVA panel, no dead pixels, has HDCP (Just read up on the benefit of it - lovely!), and it doesn't fit where my old one used to

Calibration to come next. Hopefully turn out to be a fantastically cheap 24" photo editing monitor! As and when that happens i'l let everyone know.

tyranus · 1 Apr 2008 at 20:44

Thanks for the pic, looks like a very nice panel

BoroC4 · 1 Apr 2008 at 20:53

well just recived mine and here it is I love this thing and im going from a 15"Lt NEC

and the panel id any clues

PaulProteus · 1 Apr 2008 at 20:57

Adrianr said:
Yewp. Which is lower brightness than the V0 and V1, and 800:1 contrast rather than 1000:1. Brightness i dont much care for, as for photo work running it on full is a no-no, and it seems most properly calibrated PVAs end up with a contrast ratio lower than 800:1 anyway (Though im not sure if thats panel dependant, just something i've noticed). So for the money saved, spot on

I've also realised there isn't much point in me doing a review on it. It looks identical to the OCUK one bar saying "Yuraku" where that says DGM. Same case. Same stand. PVA panel, no dead pixels, has HDCP (Just read up on the benefit of it - lovely!), and it doesn't fit where my old one used to

Calibration to come next. Hopefully turn out to be a fantastically cheap 24" photo editing monitor! As and when that happens i'l let everyone know.

Looks nice indeed!

I have received my DGM this morning. I have not switched it on yet (have just come back from work) but had I quick look through the grid. M240UW01 V.3. At the same time when I registered it with DGM and put the S/N and the PIN code it gave me a message saying 1000:1 Contrast and 500 cd brightness. I do not know what to believe. The manufacturing date is 07/15.

Any ideas?

Delvis · 1 Apr 2008 at 21:03

To be fair, there seems to be a fair few issues with these panels and dead pixels etc after reading all the posts here.

PaulProteus · 1 Apr 2008 at 21:21

I have just found out that despite what the label says (AU-M240UW01 V.3) when I switched it on and used the Menu+ buttons it came out as AU-M240UW01-VO.

I have to sort out the set up (brightness, contrast, etc.) but first impressions: incredible picture. I asm going to check for dead pixels.

Cheers.

pingu666 · 1 Apr 2008 at 21:26

has anyone noticed "sparkles" on dark pieces of the screen? i had it yesterday and it went away, just noticed it again :\. i get bright whiteish dots sparkling in a area :\/. it could be my gfx card being dodgy, its watercooled, but theres little airflow for the components on the board :\/

PaulProteus · 1 Apr 2008 at 21:42

Have just checked for dead pixels, so far so good. It is enormous. I have got 19" Samsyng SyncMaster at work, 17" CRT Digital at home, but this thing is bright and huuuge.

It would have been great had it had HDCP, but DVI should be enough

Cheers.

Adrianr · 2 Apr 2008 at 09:07

pingu666 said:
has anyone noticed "sparkles" on dark pieces of the screen? i had it yesterday and it went away, just noticed it again :\. i get bright whiteish dots sparkling in a area :\/. it could be my gfx card being dodgy, its watercooled, but theres little airflow for the components on the board :\/

I noticed this breifly after just switching my monitor on for the first time. Then it looked like something 'synced' up (kinda flashed) and it went away. Not seen it since. Suddenly though i had a load of random flashing pixels! Is this a reoccuring problem?

Rilot · 2 Apr 2008 at 11:03

I'm starting to get annoyed with the over-brightness of the backlight. It really doesn't need to be that bright and is causing blacks to become gray even after proper calibration.

Anyone know of a way to turn it down? Is there a service menu or a pot I can fiddle with inside if I open it up?

Zarf · 2 Apr 2008 at 12:24

Just Ordered myself a Yuraku, Adrianr : will i need a separate dvi male-male cable?

Got a great price on it, and i'm crossing my fingers for no dead pixels.

Invaliduser · 2 Apr 2008 at 12:49

P-MVA panel just received 1st time from OC UK. Great screen - two stuck pixels fixed and now screen is 100% pixel perfect.

the size of the monitor certainly gives my main PC pastime (EVE-Online) a 'cinematic' quality

fish99 · 2 Apr 2008 at 13:05

sunama said:
How big is this pixel? The size of a spec of dust?

If you wanna see what they look like, just load up an art package, make a big black image and set one pixel to red, one to green and one to blue. That's exactly what they look like. The green one on a dark background is particular noticeable. That's for stuck pixels. Trust me they are more noticeable than a spec of dust, especially green ones.

Dead pixels is a different story (the test above doesn't work because if you set a pixel to black in an art package it sets the whole rgb pixel to black, not just a single subpixel), a single dead subpixel is harder to notice than for instance a stuck green subpixel, except maybe on a stationary white background.

perox · 2 Apr 2008 at 13:45

Just took a pic of my dead pixel along side a full blue pixel which I put on the screen using UDpixel.

I don't actually think this is a dead pixel, it looks more like a tiny mark inside of the panel or something. It kind of moves slightly when I look at it from different angles.

It's the little mark to the left of the blue pixel.

prescott28 · 2 Apr 2008 at 14:03

Well, I haven't been posting for a while as I had to send back another monitor last week. Finally, I got a replacement this morning and it is really good, (AU M<240UW01 - V0 ) a premium MVA panel used in the Benq.

So far no problems but it did take quite a while but I think it was nearly worth it.

Delvis · 2 Apr 2008 at 14:12

perox said:
Just took a pic of my dead pixel along side a full blue pixel which I put on the screen using UDpixel.

I don't actually think this is a dead pixel, it looks more like a tiny mark inside of the panel or something. It kind of moves slightly when I look at it from different angles.

*Snippage*

It's the little mark to the left of the blue pixel.

Can you get a picture of that at a further distance? On a screen where you think it's most notable?

colinuk · 2 Apr 2008 at 14:53

prescott28 said:
Well, I haven't been posting for a while as I had to send back another monitor last week. Finally, I got a replacement this morning and it is really good, (AU M<240UW01 - V0 ) a premium MVA panel used in the Benq.

So far no problems but it did take quite a while but I think it was nearly worth it.

Think thats the one i got, seems good to me so far, no backlight, no dead pixels and eve/wow look amazing in 1900x1200 too.

For £250, i think its one of the best buys out there for a screen so far. Cheers OcUK.

ColiN

perox · 2 Apr 2008 at 14:56

I haven't got a decent enough camera to pick it up from a distance, that pic is taken with my phone. I can only see it when on a pure white background and even then I've got to look for it.