I got my replacement today and its worse than the first monitor. Not only is there more backlight bleeding but theres also a white line extending from the left bottom corner to the center of the screen. And the small plastic holder that is used to keep the cables tidy was broken and placed inside the back cover of the monitor... Will OcUK give me a refund if I be honest and return it broken? I guess I ll use super glue...
I cant see any obvious alternatives for a 20" widescreen at the range of £300-400. If you have a look at hardware.fr (I dont speak french myself so I used bablefish) theres a thread of over 60 pages and people do seem to have trouble with the monitor, other than the backlight issue. People reported having flashing gray vertical lines as I noticed on my previous monitor. And heres another worrying example (sorry in advance for the bad translation but I hope you get the idea):
"Problem of the jerks (the return of the VSYNC which kills):
One noticed that in 60hz the vidéos and the plays had regular jerks approximately every 2 seconds, in VGA and DVI what is very unpleasant. One initially believed in a problem on the PC, but however all was connecting well a CRT in the place of the LCD.
Then one made tests with a tool called "Juddertest". This utility posts vertical bars which move right through on the screen. It changes the position of the bars to each signal of synchro vertical (the VSYNC) of the video chart. One can vary this frequency by regulating the refresh misses with the tool "powerstrip" (for example 60, 75, 72, or 62.5, etc...)
Normally one must see whole bars moving at a regular speed, but here what one saw on the belinea:
- 58hz: whole bars, regular jerk twice a second approximately
- 59.5hz: whole bars, almost not of jerk (from time to time only)
- 60hz: whole bars, regular jerk every 2 seconds approximately
- 61hz: bars cut out in bottom, regular jerk twice a second approximately
- 62hz: bars more cut out even, even more jerks
- 75 Hz: bars cut out in small pieces, jerks permanently
First observation: when one exceeds some refresh misses, the bars cut out. Does Ca want to say what? Ben that the screen at a certain vertical frequency interns (let us say X) who is close to 60hz. When X is exceeded, the screen receives a new image, whereas it did not finish yet posting to it preceding --> or the tears
Second observation: the frequency of the jerks has a relationship with a centre frequency X close to 59.5hz.
The explanation as of the these phenomena is sadly simple. This monitor does not lock its vertical frequency on that of your PC like does it any other monitor.
In fact it has two stages:
- a stage which controls the flagstone LCD and which has a frequency interns near to 60hz (approximately 59.5hz for mine but surely another thing for the votres)
- a stage of entry which receives the card images video and which him is fixed on the frequency required by the video chart.
As the two stages are never at the same frequency, it is IMPOSSIBLE for this screen to post fluid animations. It is an inexcusable fault of design of engineers de Maxdata (grrrr...).
Thus approximately:
- Impossible to exploit any frequency higher than famous "X", therefore exit the 70hz, the 72hz, and the 75hz
- Impossible to play under good conditions some is the frequency of cooling chosen, because there will be always jerks, unless finding "X" what is in any event unfeasible in practice."
I am dissapointed and sending back the monitor for a refund. Didnt expect so poor quality for £350. Overall I cannot recommend the monitor. Ah I feel I want to cry...
