Hazro - Any Update?

Apologies if this has been covered in the thread already, but with the audio input/output, if the monitor were connected via HDMI (and assuming a sound and video signal is being transmitted along the HDMI cable) would the sound be routed to the audio output allowing you to then connect this to headphones/speakers? If not how would it work? And/or why would one use the audio input? I'm just slightly confused over how it all works. :p
 
i just had some green lines going across the monitor when connected to my pc via DVI, within an hours use
picture seemed fine until then :(
i switched it off and back on again and they have gone, is this something to be concerned about?
just didn't expect that from a monitor this price....
 
Well guys I have good news and bad news!


The good news is the Ergotron Arm came today...YAY!


The bad news is I dropped the arm on my Hazro and the Hazro is dead :(














PSYCH!






The actual bad news is my scales are not accurate and the Ergotron arm is not manly enough to keep the 24" level :(


Seriously peed off as I spent an hour setting it all up only to find the screen is too heavy!

Looks like I will have to stick with the stand :/



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builder22 - I had this once too, I swapped the DVI cable for one I had before and it went away.
Sijo45 - I am using 98, 96, 93 (RGB) but they probably won't help you unless you have a hardware calibration device as the LUT of the gfx card is adjusted to those values.
 
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i got my hazro 26wi today too and the only problem i had was the DVI cable was too short for me, but i used my old one, no problem. Going from an old 20" Dell to this screen is amazing, ill try to get some pics of my set up soon.
 
mrk said:
Seriously peed off as I spent an hour setting it all up only to find the screen is too heavy!

Looks like I will have to stick with the stand :/
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Oh dear, I do feel for you, getting the stand back on is actually impossible without some sort of custom jig apparently, I tried and failed on the old model :(
 
One dead sub-pixel on my 24", but its only really noticable on a light background.

Nice looking display, but too bright out of the box. I'll have to play with the settings.

Out of interest, how hot are they supposed to get, mine throws out a fair bit of heat.
 
mrk said:
Well guys I have good news and bad news!


The good news is the Ergotron Arm came today...YAY!


The bad news is I dropped the arm on my Hazro and the Hazro is dead :(






That is really sad!






PSYCH!






The actual bad news is my scales are not accurate and the Ergotron arm is not manly enough to keep the 24" level :(


Seriously peed off as I spent an hour setting it all up only to find the screen is too heavy!

Looks like I will have to stick with the stand :/



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builder22 - I had this once too, I swapped the DVI cable for one I had before and it went away.
Sijo45 - I am using 98, 96, 93 (RGB) but they probably won't help you unless you have a hardware calibration device as the LUT of the gfx card is adjusted to those values.
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Does anyone get the feeling that the brightness control isn't dimming the backlights, but is actually just changing the colours on the screen? Could be why it's so much hotter, even at moderate brightness settings, and why it doesn't go particularly dark.
 
philjohn said:
Does anyone get the feeling that the brightness control isn't dimming the backlights, but is actually just changing the colours on the screen? Could be why it's so much hotter, even at moderate brightness settings, and why it doesn't go particularly dark.
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I would like some comments about that as it was the very reason I sold my OcUK Value 24".

Does turning down brightness dimm the backlight ?

And 26WI owners please do an Input Lag test. The internet is dying for such a test ;)
Will the 26Wi turn out to be faster than the 24WI ?
 
philjohn said:
Oh dear, I do feel for you, getting the stand back on is actually impossible without some sort of custom jig apparently, I tried and failed on the old model :(
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The stand was actually very easy lol! The plastic cover on the stand handle pops off and you can detach it from the bracket easy :D
 
nightrhyme,

I, and im sure others here are too, hoping the HZ26Wi 26" turns out to be just as good quality as HZ24Wi 24", and as a bonus, its input lag being much better for gaming.
 
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Hi all, my first post here, i received my hz24wi today. Overall it's an excellent monitor, really sharp image and good colours. Compared to the digimate 24" i tried first (AMVA panel) the image quality is amazing, virtually as good as my old NEC diamondtron CRT.

But, and i'm hoping the other 24wi owners can help me here, i have a problem with it. I get banding on vertical gradients. This is an odd thing, because i get no banding on horizontal gradients such as the grayscale test at lagom.nl.

Could a fellow hz24wi owner try either or both of the following...

download checkemon and try the 'Color Spectrum' test image - http://www.ykwong.com/checkemon.html

I made a screengrab of the same image in png24 format here - http://img174.imageshack.us/my.php?image=colorspecpy4.png

On my screen i get bands running across the image roughly 1/2 inch apart, all the the down the image, slightly irregular spacing though.

Here's the really quite odd part, if i drag my cursor back and forth across the image, then directly below the cursor the banding distorts, all the way to the bottom of the image.

If you have photoshop, try using the gradient tool to make a black-to-green gradient. Disable the dither option, then drag a horizontal gradient, it comes out smooth. Now create a vertical gradient, for me it comes out heavily banded. If i then select the brush tool, the same column of banding distortion is below the brush, and will get wider if i increase the brush size too.

My display is connected via the dvi cable provided, at native res, and i've tested at my preferred settings and also when reset to factory default.

This is an amazing display, aside from this issue, so i'm hoping it's correctable. does anyone else notice a similar effect on their hz24wi in either checkemon, the image posted, or photoshop?

I don't get the same effect on other displays with the graphics card used, although the way the cursor interacts with the banding makes me think it's do with the 'hardware cursor' and therefore the graphics card (8800gts).

Another possibility could be the dvi cable maybe? although i'm not sure if that's possible with digital cabling. I don't have a spare DVI cable to test with unfortunately.

My other thought is the genesis chip in the display. I know dell 2407's had an issue similar to this, which was fixed in firmware by disabling some image processing done on the chip when the monitor is put in 'desktop mode'. These are all just guesses though.

Any advice or suggestions, or feedback from other 24wi users, is really appreciated, thanks.
 
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I have mine although have been playing footie and unable to play with it.

Seems amazing from the 5 mins i had it set up at work, ran that funky graphcs test rthdr whatever it is. looks so beautiful. more to some when Ive finishe dbuilding the rig that its for :)
 
myshkinbob said:
Hi all, my first post here, i received my hz24wi today. Overall it's an excellent monitor, really sharp image and good colours. Compared to the digimate 24" i tried first (AMVA panel) the image quality is amazing, virtually as good as my old NEC diamondtron CRT.

But, and i'm hoping the other 24wi owners can help me here, i have a problem with it. I get banding on vertical gradients. This is an odd thing, because i get no banding on horizontal gradients such as the grayscale test at lagom.nl.

Could a fellow hz24wi owner try either or both of the following...

download checkemon and try the 'Color Spectrum' test image - http://www.ykwong.com/checkemon.html

I made a screengrab of the same image in png24 format here - http://img174.imageshack.us/my.php?image=colorspecpy4.png

On my screen i get bands running across the image roughly 1/2 inch apart, all the the down the image, slightly irregular spacing though.

Here's the really quite odd part, if i drag my cursor back and forth across the image, then directly below the cursor the banding distorts, all the way to the bottom of the image.

If you have photoshop, try using the gradient tool to make a black-to-green gradient. Disable the dither option, then drag a horizontal gradient, it comes out smooth. Now create a vertical gradient, for me it comes out heavily banded. If i then select the brush tool, the same column of banding distortion is below the brush, and will get wider if i increase the brush size too.

My display is connected via the dvi cable provided, at native res, and i've tested at my preferred settings and also when reset to factory default.

This is an amazing display, aside from this issue, so i'm hoping it's correctable. does anyone else notice a similar effect on their hz24wi in either checkemon, the image posted, or photoshop?

I don't get the same effect on other displays with the graphics card used, although the way the cursor interacts with the banding makes me think it's do with the 'hardware cursor' and therefore the graphics card (8800gts).

Another possibility could be the dvi cable maybe? although i'm not sure if that's possible with digital cabling. I don't have a spare DVI cable to test with unfortunately.

My other thought is the genesis chip in the display. I know dell 2407's had an issue similar to this, which was fixed in firmware by disabling some image processing done on the chip when the monitor is put in 'desktop mode'. These are all just guesses though.

Any advice or suggestions, or feedback from other 24wi users, is really appreciated, thanks.
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Can I just say if you can screen grab (alt prtscrn) the fault and every one else can see it then the fault lies with the graphics card, drivers or even settings.
All alt prtscrn does is take a copy of the buffer on the graphics card.

Make sure you have the correct bit depth set, 24 bit or above latest GC drivers.
Ive just tried photo shop gradient and see no such phenonemom
 
myshkinbob,

I have just tested my new revision 24 and I can confirm that I do get starnge banding on the full colour spectrum shot. Both the screenshot you took and by using the actual program, I get heavy banding around the blue/purple part of the screen. These bands are horizontal and when I hover my mouse near them a verticle band of distortion appears below my mouse, almost like the smudge tool is being used.

Also got a stuck pixel today, its green when its on a black background but otherwise you cant notice it. Its also only easily noticable at a certain angle, but still :(

Edit: Im not sure if you can see this at all, but ive tried to outline with straight lines where the banding is occuring, you may be able to see it or it might be me imagining I can see it in a picture aswell. However it is certainly there in real life.

bandingfq6.jpg


Edit 2: It is also a lot worse in real life.
 
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Mick-1965 said:
Can I just say if you can screen grab (alt prtscrn) the fault and every one else can see it then the fault lies with the graphics card, drivers or even settings.
All alt prtscrn does is take a copy of the buffer on the graphics card.

Make sure you have the correct bit depth set, 24 bit or above latest GC drivers.
Ive just tried photo shop gradient and see no such phenonemom
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Oh i made the screenshot for anyone who didn't want to download the program. I'm fairly certain the bands aren't on the source image as it never showed on the digimate 24" or my CRT.

Thanks for testing it on your hz24wi, you don't get the same effect that i do on a non-dithered vertical gradient? That narrows it down a bit. If you could try checkemon that'd be great too. :)

Thanks jack.mitchell too, i haven't really got access to a decent camera to photograph it either, but like you say, the distortion in the bands below the cursor is just like someone ran the smudge tool down the image.
 
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I don't have that issue either mate!

Often banding is a result of incorrect gamma values, if your screen settings in windows set for 2.2 gamma? or you're using no colour profiles ?
 
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