Ips and VA on my desk now.. Can't decide!

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I'm sat here with a lg 34gk950f (ips) and a benq EX3501R (VA)

And I was fairly sure I was going to keep the benq. Its 1 inch bigger.

But despite having a better contrast ratio,it seems to have this permanent grey background.

Its almost like a uniform 'glow' which the LG doesn't have

This is the VA , hitting the black levels


Vs the ips

 

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But the IPS looks darker. As in on a dark background it's blacker than the VA.

I thought this wasn't supposed to happen?

 

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It doesn't look like the backlights are set at similar levels at all.
On the IPS image, nothing below 11 seems to stand out from the background whereas all of them do on the VA.

Have you tweaked them to the suggested levels on that website?

By back light you mean brightness right?

They are set to similar levels when looking by eye.

I believe the VAs do have much better contrast levels though right? Isn't that what I'm seeing there?

 

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OK, so I now have what you suggested. I've not actually touched anything. Now the ips looks like the VA.

I don't know what this shine across the VA is. I just can't shift it

 

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These monitors are unbelievably close considering they are ips and VA I can barely tell the difference in colour!

 

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It's hard to describe.
It's not the colours it's more like there glare from on the surface. But there isn't as it was a dark room last night.

I've never seen it before.


I think the VA panel is fine. The colours are different. But I'd never know without side by side comparison

The ips has the usual ips corner glow. One corner is nasty

The VA has clouding or BLB.

Actually I don't know if I can live with either of these two monitors

Basically colour is ok, panel uniformity isn't.

Tempted to send both back and get a better VA. I thought VA would have worse colours but it's much less than what I thought.

 

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Think I'm going to go with the benq.
They both have issues

The light monitor alone is really useful on the benq now in using it for work I never have to touch the brightness through the day.
It's 200 pounds difference and I don't think the ips is 200 pounds better .

I could put that towards the benq 32 4k IPS as my second screen for photography

 

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What abut viewing angles? Is the VA much worse, something that always does my head in is even when slightly of axis, you can just see terrible contrast shift.

Not as much as I thought. As in I don't notice it. I was surprised actually.