Baddass, that was very well written and extremely in-depth (including your new article to complement the story). It was about time that someone clarify such matters in directed, technical and "user friendly" way. I'm so tired of that banding hype, especially when panic attack is coming from the people who are not exactly up for the job for such statements. No offence to anyone here really, but my theory is that you have to observe->learn->test and repeat this cycle couple of times until public statement is made. People are simply firing up the colour gradient test patterns immediately after they receive the screen and at the same time they don't have a clue about the monitor capabilities (0 research), working modes, configuration, why is that happening (especially with the A01 revision) and how the picture perception is affected.
As I already mentioned in my previous post here, it's no news that banding side effect is present when picture processing engine is ON (monitor video profiles) and as long as you can select the "native" monitor mode (desktop in Dell case) you are just fine. It's only unclear for me why Dell didn't included the native profile at first place and with the first revision. Maybe their marketing strategy was that monitor have that "wow" factor out of the box and that is utterly wrong imho ... or simply TV features prevailed at the end. Who knows.
Important thing is that even if the banding is present in the colour test patterns (when using other non-native monitor modes), that *doesn't* neceserally means that final perception would be affected or distracted, especially when the screen is "noisy" (playing games, movies) and watched from the distance.
Did you ever tried to display the colour gradients from the PC on your LCD TV which has picture processing engine ? You would be surprised about the results
or something!
