Help with Viewsonic VP930

[Lurch]

I bought a Viewsonic VP930 about a month ago from OcUK, i love the viewing angles, image quality and the overall shiftability of the monitor. My problem is that whenever the monitor displays black ie whenever i play any dark games or watch dvds i get bad backlight bleeding, i see basically a grey "X" whenever the screen is totally black with the corners being the brightest, transitioning to black the middle.

It is really distracting especially when playing games, the funny thing is that its perfect when not displaying black or dark grey, it displays colours brightly and both images and text are crisp.

What i have noticed is that it does not do this until about 5 minutes after i switch it on.

What can i do to fix this?
Is my monitor up too bright?
Are there certain settings that make this go away?
Have i got a dodgy monitor?

Im in a bit of a pickle here because i cant really return the monitor unless i spend fair few quid sending it back as i live in northern ireland, besides i damaged the packaging taking the thing out.

Should i make the effort and send this back for another one? I dont want to be sitting with the same problem i have now.

This is a real pitty because this is a great monitor when not displaying black, its great for watching movies in bed for example.

Any advise anyone can give me will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your time.

 

[Lurch]

I forgot to add that if there is any other monitor i could exchange this for with the same functionality as the VP930 i would consider it as an alternative.

 

[Lurch]

Thank you guys for such a prompt reply, Newfilm i tried what you said but with the brightness/contrast at those settings the bleeding is still as bad. Im using the monitor on a geforce 7800gtx on the dvi connection, would changing to analogue connection make any difference?

What colour temperature are you using Newfilm? Would that make a difference?

Baddass will it make any difference if i continue to use sRGB and adjust the brightness etc from my graphics card control panel?

Hopefully i can figure out a way to lessen the bleeding so that i can live with it, as this monitor is the best ive had for image quality. Its just a pitty that in todays society we have to make do with pc components that are not manufactured/tested/developed properly, we are spending a lot of money on these things.

Anyway ill not take up all your time by posting useless nonsense that you already know, thank you once again for all your advise and i hope you can help me further.

 

[Lurch]

I have managed to adjust the brightness so that the bleeding is not as bad as it was, though the screen is not as bright the image quality seems to be just as good.

Cheers Baddass for your advise, if you are ever over in belfast ill buy you a pint!

 

[Lurch]

Our friend with back light issue, does it notice when viewed strait at it or just to the side

It seems its only when i look at it head on, though i notice its brighter in more corners than others when looking at it at an angle.

Use a reasonable black screen with something we can see like the windows desktop with a small picture in the middle and a black desktop backing

I dont understand what you meant when you said this, i have tested the screen when it has a completely black backround and also in games. I dont know if i can take a photo of it and post it here as i only have a crappy camera phone, though if you wish i can try.

 

[Lurch]

When I have the screen saver on with a black background I also notice the same backlight problem, although it doesn't seem as bad since I calibrated the monitor with calibration software.

What calibration software did you use?
The one that came with the monitor?
I uninstalled it as i dont like programs taking up memory in the taskbar.