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sunama · 26 Jul 2008 at 11:59

I have this montor and am a little confused, so perhaps someone could explain.

When people say the monitor is too bright, even with contrast and brightness set to 0, how can this be?

When I set the monitor to those settings, I can hardly see anything, let alone be blinded by the light?

fish99 · 26 Jul 2008 at 12:14

Huugs said:
Hi Guys,

Can anyone confirm whether or not this has HDCP? 144 pages is a lot to go through to try and find this.

Cheers
Paul

No the Digimate one doesn't. If you need HDCP then have a look at the Yuraku version.

nightrhyme · 26 Jul 2008 at 12:28

sunama said:
I have this montor and am a little confused, so perhaps someone could explain.

When people say the monitor is too bright, even with contrast and brightness set to 0, how can this be?

When I set the monitor to those settings, I can hardly see anything, let alone be blinded by the light?

I'll try and explain. English is not my native language so please bear with me.

When you manipulate the brightness + contrast controls you only "darken" the liquid crystals in the panel making it a little harder for the backlight to pass through. But the backlight level stays the same.

Ofcourse I can't see anything either at 0% brightness and 0% contrast.
But if you look at the white color in the little OSD square and turn contrast and brightness to zero it's brightness isn't affected.

Another thing I noticed is if you lower the brightness control below about 45% you loose all greylevel detail. Verify with below image

sunama · 26 Jul 2008 at 14:08

nightrhyme said:

So, using this picture as a benchmark, how could the image (given that it is so dark), hurt your eyes with its brightness level?

I accept that the OSD is unaffected, but you will hardly be using that on a regular basis and even when you do, you wont be staring at it intently. The OSD is a total non-issue.

fish99 · 26 Jul 2008 at 14:59

It won't hurt your eyes displaying black, but set the picture to white, set brightness to default and look at it for a few minutes from 2 foot. Turning the brightness down just compresses the colour range and crushes near black detail. What you really need is an adjustable backlight, then you can have the brightness that suits you, but without losing dark detail.

nightrhyme · 26 Jul 2008 at 17:51

sunama said:
So, using this picture as a benchmark, how could the image (given that it is so dark), hurt your eyes with its brightness level?

I accept that the OSD is unaffected, but you will hardly be using that on a regular basis and even when you do, you wont be staring at it intently. The OSD is a total non-issue.

The image has nothing to do with the monitor beeing too bright. It was just a observation regarding the consequence of trying to make the screen less bright.

I'm entitled to my experience of the monitor ? right

My experience is that it is imposible to make the screen less bright without seriously screwing up the picture quality.

For instance 20% contrast + 20% brightness hurts my eyes when viewing fullscreen white.

I will give it a couple of days and see if I get used to it. I'm only concerned about hurting my eyes

builder22 · 26 Jul 2008 at 17:54

I asked in this thread before, but no answer
just wondering of anyone has used this monitor with a ps3 or any other 1080p source, using an HDfury or vgabox gadget ?

sunama · 27 Jul 2008 at 10:06

I have viewed 1080p movies, on my PC, on this monitor. They are fine.

gee3000 · 28 Jul 2008 at 01:31

I've had this monitor for a good few months now and i think it's brilliant! Great for movies as well as general use.

However today i have a problem with it. I cant type too much cos i'm using a mobile phone :| but basically, the monitor was running my pc fine via DVI, then i plugged a secondary device into the analog connector, and switched the channel to 'rgb', and it displayed the image from the secondary device fine. But now i have unplugged the secondary device and the monitor doesn't seem to want to switch back to DVI ;\ all i get is flashing power indicator, as if my pc is on standby/off/idle. I press switch channel, took out all leads, tried again, no luck. Even tried plugging secondary device back in to change channel back but no response at all ;\
I also tried the monitor on my other pc, still same behaviour. The monitor just doesn't pick up any signal.

Anyone know what the problem might be? Pls help.

gee3000 · 28 Jul 2008 at 23:32

gee3000 said:
I've had this monitor for a good few months now and i think it's brilliant! Great for movies as well as general use.

However today i have a problem with it. I cant type too much cos i'm using a mobile phone :| but basically, the monitor was running my pc fine via DVI, then i plugged a secondary device into the analog connector, and switched the channel to 'rgb', and it displayed the image from the secondary device fine. But now i have unplugged the secondary device and the monitor doesn't seem to want to switch back to DVI ;\ all i get is flashing power indicator, as if my pc is on standby/off/idle. I press switch channel, took out all leads, tried again, no luck. Even tried plugging secondary device back in to change channel back but no response at all ;\
I also tried the monitor on my other pc, still same behaviour. The monitor just doesn't pick up any signal.

Anyone know what the problem might be? Pls help.

* Bump bump.

nightrhyme · 29 Jul 2008 at 02:21

gee3000 said:
I've had this monitor for a good few months now and i think it's brilliant! Great for movies as well as general use.

However today i have a problem with it. I cant type too much cos i'm using a mobile phone :| but basically, the monitor was running my pc fine via DVI, then i plugged a secondary device into the analog connector, and switched the channel to 'rgb', and it displayed the image from the secondary device fine. But now i have unplugged the secondary device and the monitor doesn't seem to want to switch back to DVI ;\ all i get is flashing power indicator, as if my pc is on standby/off/idle. I press switch channel, took out all leads, tried again, no luck. Even tried plugging secondary device back in to change channel back but no response at all ;\
I also tried the monitor on my other pc, still same behaviour. The monitor just doesn't pick up any signal.

Anyone know what the problem might be? Pls help.

I read your post earlier but didn't reply since you seem to have excausted all posibilities and thereby established that the monitor is broken.

In my opinion you need to RMA it...

scruffeh · 29 Jul 2008 at 15:27

builder22 said:
I asked in this thread before, but no answer
just wondering of anyone has used this monitor with a ps3 or any other 1080p source, using an HDfury or vgabox gadget ?

My friend has a ps3 and hdfury with this monitor and it works really well. I think you just need to centre the picture the first time you use it but after that you can change from pc/ps3 quickly and easily.

gee3000 · 29 Jul 2008 at 19:30

nightrhyme said:
I read your post earlier but didn't reply since you seem to have excausted all posibilities and thereby established that the monitor is broken.

In my opinion you need to RMA it...

Ah, just hoping there was a less time consuming fix. I'm already experiencing COD4 withdrawal symptoms ;p

RAM'd :\

kmetek · 29 Jul 2008 at 21:56

can anyone tell me if someone from uk orders it and sends to me how much shipping would be?

sunama · 29 Jul 2008 at 22:07

kmetek said:
can anyone tell me if someone from uk orders it and sends to me how much shipping would be?

Look on
http://www.parcelforce.com/portal/pw
and look for an international rate. I believe that it will cost about £30 or so, given that the monitor is relatively heavy.

kmetek · 29 Jul 2008 at 22:18

http://www.parcelforce.com/portal/pw/content1?catId=25900666&mediaId=25900670

wow cheap

who will order it for me from OCUK

RobH · 30 Jul 2008 at 22:45

I don't know what happened but my digimate 24" cannot display at 1920 x 1200 or 1600 x 1200 (anything X by 1200 it seems). This came on randomly today as I was adjusting the colour settings on the OSD, I messed up the colours so I went to 'reset' on the OSD and as soon as I did that it messed up. The picture is there but it seems wrapped around and is all shaking (see the video below). I have tried resetting any everything, can't figure out what's causing it as I can display a picture fine at other resolutions but as soon as I hit something like 1920x1200 it's gone. Is this a hardware fault?

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC-rnaIY9Fo

Edit, seems to only be DVI as the VGA port handles 1920 x 1200 fine but I need that for somethign else so I want DVI working.

beercrew · 30 Jul 2008 at 23:55

so which is the best one to buy the Ocuk 24" or a samsung 22" I online game most of the time using BFG 8800gt OC2.

nightrhyme · 31 Jul 2008 at 00:43

RobH said:
I don't know what happened but my digimate 24" cannot display at 1920 x 1200 or 1600 x 1200 (anything X by 1200 it seems). This came on randomly today as I was adjusting the colour settings on the OSD, I messed up the colours so I went to 'reset' on the OSD and as soon as I did that it messed up. The picture is there but it seems wrapped around and is all shaking (see the video below). I have tried resetting any everything, can't figure out what's causing it as I can display a picture fine at other resolutions but as soon as I hit something like 1920x1200 it's gone. Is this a hardware fault?

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC-rnaIY9Fo

Edit, seems to only be DVI as the VGA port handles 1920 x 1200 fine but I need that for somethign else so I want DVI working.

Hmm very strange indeed. Have you tried connecting it to another pc or just another graphics card ?

beercrew said:
so which is the best one to buy the Ocuk 24" or a samsung 22" I online game most of the time using BFG 8800gt OC2.

Assuming the samsung 22" is TN based ? There is really no competition. I would get OCUK 24"

RobH · 31 Jul 2008 at 01:08

I've just noticed that "Phase", "Clock", "H-Position" and "V-Position" are now all disabled on my screens OSD. I know for a fact they were enabled before because I recorded this video the day I got the display. Very weird, all this from pressing "reset" on the OSD.