Hazro - Any Update?

Thanks for the review Baddass! I noticed this section in particular:

I re-calibrated the screen at other common luminance points such as 200 cd/m2, and black depth remained pretty consistent at around 0.58 cd/m2. How bright you want the screen will obviously be dependent on your personal uses and ambient lighting, but decreasing the luminance of the screen does result in a loss of contrast unfortunately. You can't get a much better black depth than this no matter how you set up the screen. This is a fairly average performance for IPS based matrices however and very similar to the HZ26W's original reading of 0.56 cd/m2. Subjectively, it was impossible to detect the first 8 shades of grey on the scale from 0 - 255 (255 being pure white). I followed the useful tests here, where the first square you could distinguish on the HZ26Wi was number 9.
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I had the same issue on the 24Wihence why I adjusted luminance on the OSD instead of adjusting it during calibration (skipped all steps in BlueEye to adjust brightness and contrast)

The end result was being able to see from square 2 onwards in that test and you can faintly make out square 1 if you squint a bit.

The results were:

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OSD settings for the above are:

Brightness 50
Contrast 40
RGB 85 85 85

I found adjusting RGB in the RGB step makes initial difference but skipping it is no worry since the profile creation step during colour swatch measuring corrects the colour to your chosen value (6500K).

I'm very happy with these results as black details are very good whilst not muddying out white contrast to any major extent.

Luminance at 287 is also fairly easy on the eyes in any moderate or dimly lit room. Not too bright but not too dark either to block out black details in grey areas!

If the firmware update fixes the banding and snow greens then I have no further issues to report!
 
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Hey guys.

Been following this thread since the start, finally jumped on the Hazro wagon despite the current issues since a discount I had expired on the weekend. It arrived today, and I think (hope) that it's faulty. The uniformity is absolutely terrible, even when in a relatively lit room. There's also a strange kind of horizontal 'grain' effect - random streaks of varying thickness of bright and dark, most visible against darkness and when closer to the panel. This isn't the coating or some kind of processing, surely? I know it's not the source; it shows up against solid fills in Photoshop or solid desktop backgrounds, and isn't visible on my other monitors. Also, is the DVI port kinda loose on anybody else's unit? It's not exactly flopping around back there, but there's definitely some wiggle to it.

I've tried swapping for a different DVI cable, adjusting with the OSD settings and the control panel. I'm going from dual S-IPS Dells which had issues of their own, expected this to be better than them. Just bad luck I guess, going to swap this due to the uniformity alone, just wanted to check if the streaking was 'normal'/not me being obsessively anal?

Wanted my first post to be praising and posting pics of this beautiful piece of kit too. :(

Edit: Just to clarify, this can't be the banding others are experiencing if it's easily visible against a black solid fill can it?
 
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Mick-1965 said:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v46/Bagger/PSbanding.png

I created this in Photoshop, its a non dithered gadient and it looks bl00dy terrible. Pixelization,banding etc
Open it up and move your pointer over it and watch around the edge of pointer, it changes, poor monitor doesnt know how to deal with it
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Ok mine is banded but no pixellation issues that you are talking about.

So apart from mrk, everyone seems to be having some banding issues or other?

sid
 
sid said:
Ok mine is banded but no pixellation issues that you are talking about.

So apart from mrk, everyone seems to be having some banding issues or other?

sid
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Bands of pixelization is a better description
link to a photo of how it displays on mine http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v46/Bagger/lookslike.jpg

Hopefully this will all be all in the past by the end of the week. All fixed with beautiful gradients :)
 
For Baddass (I must owe you several beers by now)

Opening the gradient.exe showed horizontal banding. Adjusting the Contrast to 64 seemed to clear most of it (brightness adjustment made no difference).

Opening a screengrab in photoshop and rotating 90 degrees clockwise produced no vertical banding.

Viewing the image at less than 100% produced banding.

Other images still show banding, as do gradients I've produced myself in photoshop.

Here's a odd one for you all - moving the zoom tool across the gradient created a moving shift in the banded bars below. I've uploaded a video of this to youtube (excuse the poor quality):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAsCY9ENrCo
 
Bands of pixelization is a better description
link to a photo of how it displays on mine http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4.../lookslike.jpg
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Ouch ! I would say completly unusable in graphics applications.
Let's see after firmware update.


I ve read the 26Wi review on TFT central (many thanks for it) and i have to admit that i don t feel comfortable with the poor contrast ratio of 205:1 after calibration and the below average panel uniformity.
I don 't like also the need to go software to get a usable luminosity.
 
When is the new firmware going to be released? also what is the mouse looking calibration thing iv seen hanging on peoples screens? I'm very tempted to buy a 24" but its a lot of money on something that seems to have a lot of problems. Also where do you stand with dead/stuck pixels? I don't expect for that kinda money it not to be perfect.
 
Bradley8988 said:
When is the new firmware going to be released? also what is the mouse looking calibration thing iv seen hanging on peoples screens? I'm very tempted to buy a 24" but its a lot of money on something that seems to have a lot of problems. Also where do you stand with dead/stuck pixels? I don't expect for that kinda money it not to be perfect.
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Mouse looking thing is a colorimeter, which measures the colours on the screen and can put a "corrective" profile into your graphics card LUT (or on more expensive screens an internal to the monitor LUT), it makes the colours, white point and brightness correct (or as close to as it can manage). Look to spend anywhere from 80-300+ pounds for a decent one. TFTCentral has some good reviews.
 
Mick-1965 said:
Noooooo. :) They are the limits for warranty not the amount Ive got
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Ah I misunderstood.

This is interesting me now as I've just bought myself an XPS M1530 with a 1440x900 screen, even though it's not exactly the last word in screen tech it makes my 1280x1024 L90D+ look like it was made about 10 years ago :p. It isn't going to last much longer...
 
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