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Adrianr · 9 Apr 2008 at 01:17

Any way of testing (besides using a colorimeter) that your screen doesn't output the brightness stated in the specs? I presume if it's that dark at full brightness it wont be outputting 500cd/m2, that could be your angle for argument?

jubei · 9 Apr 2008 at 02:55

Adrianr said:
Any way of testing (besides using a colorimeter) that your screen doesn't output the brightness stated in the specs? I presume if it's that dark at full brightness it wont be outputting 500cd/m2, that could be your angle for argument?

You are speaking foreign to me

If anyone does however know of a way i can test this please feel free to chime in.

Mattdav · 9 Apr 2008 at 08:34

ok I got good stuff kinda.

I got the faulty monitor working by fiddling about with it for one last time before senting it back lol

ok now like jubei I can see the difference in colours lol I thought I sorted them with my last SA will see if I can get them looking good again.

only thing is on green i have noticed you get funny look like the screen needs a clear even though it does not (had this on my last SA one)

Mattdav · 9 Apr 2008 at 08:45

edit fixed that lol

Phunky · 9 Apr 2008 at 10:46

My replacement one has just turned up and i plugged it straight into my office pc to check the model and i have a "M240UW01 V0" which i believe is a decent VA panel?

Only took a week and about 30mins on there 0870 support number!

Cavallino · 9 Apr 2008 at 10:47

Im just dreading to think how much all these replacements are costing OCUK to bring back and send out! :eek:

Mattdav · 9 Apr 2008 at 11:29

well if its true that it costs them £22 (what they charge if product not faulty sure they make a profit on that though:/)

then 4x that cost them £88 to deliver 2 monitors

jubei · 9 Apr 2008 at 13:30

Mattdav said:
well if its true that it costs them £22 (what they charge if product not faulty sure they make a profit on that though:/)

then 4x that cost them £88 to deliver 2 monitors

Did you manage to get good colours our of it? Could i have your settings?

Thinkin that i will just have to turn the brightness down on the good monitor and make it dull and listless to match the other one. Probably wouldnt even notice after a while.

Mattdav · 9 Apr 2008 at 14:04

not had a chance to yet but i did reset all my settings because one of the grays was showing as green using built in reset then set brightness to 60% everything else on default still.

will take a photo for you later

Adrianr · 9 Apr 2008 at 14:49

jubei said:
You are speaking foreign to me

If anyone does however know of a way i can test this please feel free to chime in.

Lol, sorry. A colorimeter is something used in conjunction with calibration software to measure the light coming off your screen. One of the things it can test (because it has to adjust during calibration) is brightness. So if you can prove at 100% brightness your monitor isn't outputting 500cd/m2 (Which it says it should do in the specs) then it's obviously not upto spec. And just as bad as receiving a TN panel which they're happy to replace.

Problem is you'de have to borrow one, as they're not cheap. It's not really a viable solution to be honest, i'm just throwing it out there

Phunky · 9 Apr 2008 at 14:56

Has anyone got a desk mount for one of these?!

Mattdav · 9 Apr 2008 at 15:45

desk mount? don't it come with one?

Phunky · 9 Apr 2008 at 15:46

It comes with a stand, but i'm interested in one of the desk arms you can pick up for them

BrianWarming · 10 Apr 2008 at 04:38

PaulProteus said:
So I have a month before it fades away

SA-LTM240M2-L01

The panel you have got is part of some Eizo monitors and is sold for above £ 600 in the UK. So you are lucky with this one (fingers crossed it would last)

Cheers.

I myself would not call that lucky. Sure it's a lot better than a TN panel, but the "right" panel is supposed to be a P-MVA from AUO (M240UW01) as used in BenQ FP241W. The LTM240M2 panel is a Samsung S-PVA panel like in Dell 2407WFP or Eizo S2411W (Do a panel search on LTM240M2 via http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/)

On http://www.digitalversus.com/article-357-3215-303.html
you can read about the superior features of the P-MVA panel (the important one being; better than 2ms TN panel response times !!!)

In short; if your a gamer, the AUO (M240UW01) panel is the one you want.

Brian, Denmark.

Edit1:
Maybe even better read :
http://www.google.com/translate_c?h...12-4/lcd-david-vs-goliath-iolair-vs-dell.html

Edit2:
Strange !? for some reason the translated page does not always show the pictures. Here is the french original page :
http://www.hardware.fr/articles/712-4/lcd-david-vs-goliath-iolair-vs-dell.html

Mattdav · 10 Apr 2008 at 10:22

the SA has loads better brightness though... and better looking colours (less dull).

but the SA does seem to have granny look

PaulProteus · 10 Apr 2008 at 13:26

The prevailing opnion is that Samsung produce better panels in general. This one in particular might suffer from some shortcomings but still, they put in Eizo monitors and people pay [premium price (above £ 600) to get one of these.

Gibbo · 10 Apr 2008 at 14:35

jubei said:
Here are the two monitors side by side, the pics are flattering really as its a lot worse to look at. Is this worthy of RMA though or will they test that monitor works and just charge me to send the same one back?

Also, doesnt anyone have a rough idea how much i will have to fork out to send it back and if i just do it at post office or need to sort something like city link out? Never RMA'd anything before.

HI m8

Can you email me at [email protected]

I will give you the email address and mobile number where you can get your monitor swapped out for a PVA model at ZERO cost to yourself. Same goes for any other customer too.

We believe we are now on top of all this mess, all our stock went back yesterday due to a high infection of TN panels, new stock arrived today that has been pre-checked by our supplier to confirm to the matt-PVA panel specs, they are now making sure we only get PVA panels and are putting them in a quarantined area in there warehouse to make sure thats what we get. As OcUK was first to request that panel type and as such OcUK is getting that stock.

We just had a replacement stock in today and we have spot checked 10 panels and they are all PVA/MVA panels with very good viewing angles just like the one on my desk.

Rambo · 10 Apr 2008 at 19:00

Looks like everything worked out all right in the end...

jubei · 11 Apr 2008 at 00:07

Gibbo said:
HI m8

Can you email me at [email protected]

I will give you the email address and mobile number where you can get your monitor swapped out for a PVA model at ZERO cost to yourself. Same goes for any other customer too.

We believe we are now on top of all this mess, all our stock went back yesterday due to a high infection of TN panels, new stock arrived today that has been pre-checked by our supplier to confirm to the matt-PVA panel specs, they are now making sure we only get PVA panels and are putting them in a quarantined area in there warehouse to make sure thats what we get. As OcUK was first to request that panel type and as such OcUK is getting that stock.

We just had a replacement stock in today and we have spot checked 10 panels and they are all PVA/MVA panels with very good viewing angles just like the one on my desk.

Wow i never expected that, very very much appreciated Gibbo thanks a lot. Have e-mailed you as requested.

unknownpain · 11 Apr 2008 at 12:32

Worthy of RMA

I've had this monitor for about 10 days now and the backlight bleed seems to be getting worse and worse, i watch a lot of movies and they are beginning to look terrible on this display. I have one dead pixel and a minor scratch, both in the top right corner of the screen. I could have lived with that but they backlight bleed is just terrible.

Piccy, ignore the menu in the middle and my terrible photography skills

Is this worthy of an RMA ?

Thanks