Can users try this monitor Black test link?

Ice Tea · 7 Jan 2019 at 11:47

http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/black.php

What is the first number that you can see that is different to the background and let us know if you have a IPS , VA , or TN panel?

Thanks

Ice Tea · 7 Jan 2019 at 13:47

Reason i ask is that i read a comment from a reddit user that claimed to work in Monitor support and said that the vast majority of TN panels see the #1 & 2 tiles on default settings and the VA,IPS mostly tend to see the #3 & 4 tiles so i thought it would be interesting to see if this is true amongst us on OCUK.

Though it's rather subjective as some people run auto dynamic contrast and some people plainly don't care if they have over the top brightness,contrast and gamma settings ..

Ice Tea · 19 Jan 2019 at 23:45

james.miller said:
Unless your panel is calibrated this doesn't tell you anything useful.

post 8 points out why with default settings , nothing to do with calibration and subjective as some monitors have adaptive contrast enabled on default so it's not showing the true range of the panel.

Ice Tea · 20 Jan 2019 at 11:39

Jokester said:
factory settings other than brightness turned down to 10.

Geeeeeez , if you had to turn it down that low i can only imagine you needed welding googles when you first turned it on.

A couple of years back a guy posted a video about a ridiculously bright Dell that he had and when he turned it down it started to squeal and when he got below 40% it changed to a buzz and sounded like a sex toy.

Ice Tea · 20 Jan 2019 at 12:27

Did you mean 1 to 4 or 14?

:eek:

Ice Tea · 20 Jan 2019 at 12:39

Unless you're sitting with sunlight across the screen i'm generally shocked at 14 on a modern monitor.

Ice Tea · 23 Jan 2019 at 12:01

james.miller said:
If calibration is out, it will affect when you see in that test irrespective of the panel type; It has everything to do with calibration.

Which has what to do with post 8 and a Monitor Engineer comments on the average factory default settings which is why the entire thread was started?

As said even default settings are subjective and it has nothing to do with end user calibration , just a generalization of his observations of panel types.

Ice Tea · 23 Jan 2019 at 23:59

String said:
What number are we actually looking for?

If you calibrate the monitor yourself then tile 1 should just about be barley discernible with comfortable gamma and contrast settings.

Though Monitors made in the last couple of years such as HDR have really aggressive contrast and gamma enabled as their factory default that will change the levels automatically on dark scenes regardless of your own settings.