Belinea 102035W

Had mine for about a month and it works fine. Excellent monitor.

If your having trouble with it try switching from VGA to DVI.
 
Fanatic said:
Had mine for about a month and it works fine. Excellent monitor.

If your having trouble with it try switching from VGA to DVI.
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In case you hadn't noticed, I did mention twice that I've tried both D-Sub and DVI.

Maybe some people are happy to live with the leakage, I'm not, it may well be a cheap TFT but cheap should not = faulty.
 
I think I've now read enough to put me off this monitor.
I'm sure it's great but I'm bound to get a dodgy one, and trying to replace it sounds like a massive hassle.
 
Fanatic said:
Had mine for about a month and it works fine. Excellent monitor.

If your having trouble with it try switching from VGA to DVI.
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Maybe we got a defective one, but I believe that they all have a serious backlight leek. Some people notice it others dont. But I dont find it right to pay £351 for a product that is inferior and has an obvious defect (even if one doesnt always notice it). If people like the monitor and find it excelent thats good, but technically the monitor is definately not excellent!
 
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Inferior to what ? Backlight bleed of varying degrees is a standard feature of any lcd monitor. Just have to hope its uniform and not just comming from one area. Still its barely noticable and only then one completely black screen where it really doesnt matter whats showing and doesnt effect a full screen image. I advise sitting at least a meter back from the monitor instead of sitting on it and accept for the price, you wont see much better. My previous Hyundie LD90 was probably worst monitor for backlight bleed. In fact the corners were so bright the backlights burned out after 3 days use ;)
 
I have yet to notice any backlight bleeding from mine, connected with both vga and dvi over the past 2 months, this monitor is solid
 
MadMatty said:
Inferior to what ? Backlight bleed of varying degrees is a standard feature of any lcd monitor. Just have to hope its uniform and not just comming from one area. Still its barely noticable and only then one completely black screen where it really doesnt matter whats showing and doesnt effect a full screen image. I advise sitting at least a meter back from the monitor instead of sitting on it and accept for the price, you wont see much better. My previous Hyundie LD90 was probably worst monitor for backlight bleed. In fact the corners were so bright the backlights burned out after 3 days use ;)
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I agree that all tft monitors bleed but I found the amount of bleeding in this one unacceptable. The bleed is at least a fist size and coming from all 4 corners. It is not noticeable when doing office work but I can say that it is there when watching movies and when playing games (I guess ie as I am not really into gaming). I just didnt expect to pay £350 and have black displayed as gray at the corners, when watchng movies. The bleed in my old 17" LG was a very tiny thin line around the screen and you really had to look for it. I didnt sit next to the screen looking for defects, on the contrary, initially I was actually impressed by its size, brighteness and the wide screen format. But when I used it to watch movies the bleed just jumps out! It is a budget monitor thats true and I knew I am not getting the pivot ,swivel, height adjustment, scaling options, a DVI cable, but at least I expected the screen to be uniformly black. So I cant just sit there and say well OK I ll get used to the bright corners, will try to ignore them, its the best I can get for the price. Now it seems that some people notice it, others dont, others dont find it distcracting, others find that overall the quality is very good. But the point is that these monitors (or an awful lot of them) seem to bleed badly from all 4 corners - and thats why I call them inferior.
 
Can someone with this monitor stick their face up against it and tell me if it appears a bit granular to them? I've read about something called the "crystal effect" on certain TFT's but I don't know if it applies here.
 
when i fill a screen with red, i can see what looks like a frost effect on the screen which is abit off putting. (like a cold morning on ya windows)
 
Can someone post a screenshot at 1680x1050 / 96 DPI. I just want to get a feeling on how large the fonts are. An Internet Explorer window with this page loaded should suffice.

Thanks,
_EnF_
 
I see no visable difference either apart from some wavy lines under vga with some low resolutions(probably due to all the cables clumped together behind me desk).

On my machine though, for some odd reason i cant see the bootup screen with just the dvi cable connected nore the bios screen. Have to wait until windows has loaded before the screen comes on.
 
Just got my DVI cable and tried DVI for the first time ever. Immediately saw the difference in comparison to VGA. Quite shocked tbh, and want another screen now but have too many here atm :/
 
Care to mention what those differences are ? ;) If i connect both vga/dvi cables and use menu to flip between the two, I cant see any difference in clarity/colour vibrance :| I was hopeing for more (Not that vga is by any means bad, far from it - but i was hopeing that the investment in a dvi cable would at least change something, apart from loosing the lower resolutions durring bootup)
 
I'm using my belinea for xbox 360 use exclusively, but bought the dvi cable should I wish to use the pc to watch a dvd in widescreen. I use twin 17" sharp tft's for PC use mainly and the vga image on these is razor sharp and crystal clear.

DVI was shocking tbh. Hooked it up and right away and the clarity and crispness on the windows fonts was startling, the whole display looks much sharper and tbh I never considered that IQ could go beyond what I saw via vga. I'm now wishing I had twin dvi tft's as opposed to twin vga ones.
 
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