New Monitor needed ~£200? NOW UPPED TO £300!

[Thekwango]

Bad news about the stuck pixel reappearing, particularly if its an obvious colour or in a prominent location on the screen.
The HP 1600x900 20inch thing I had been using prior to Friday had a dead pixel near the top left. Barely noticed it as it was fairly out of the way, black and looked more like a tiny speck of dust.
Not sure how I'd feel if this LG had any. Always the possibility that one or more may develop over time anyway.

Yea the bugger is right slap bang in my line of sight (well off to the right actually) and a lovely bright blue. Weird thing is if the monitor is left off for an hour or so it goes away, load up a game and it's back after 5 mins.

I'd live with it if it had developed after a few months or summat but not right out of the box. It would do my head in!!

 

[Thekwango]

olours very good once you install the ICC colour profile from the supplied disc and drop brightness to 30-40 from default 70.

quick question, where did you find that on the disc - no optical drive so just copied to a memstick but can't find that anywhere?!

 

[Thekwango]

Colour profile and simple installer program for it are in the display\DRIVERS\Installation folder.
You're not thinking of hanging on to it with that stuck pixel are you?

No, I used it over the weekend and I couldn't cope! OcUK have been excellent about it, offered a discount if I wanted to hang on to it and when I didn't they matched the offer price from last week.

They even managed to get it out for dispatch today (Monday) even though it was way after their normal cut off point. Well impressed with them to be honest.

 

[Thekwango]

Did you get a replacement, how is it?

Yea replacement arrived today. Not had time to test it properly yet but had it on for about half an hour and touch wood no signs of any stuck/dead pixels. going to give it a good going over tonight/ tomorrow

 

[Thekwango]

Yea replacement arrived today. Not had time to test it properly yet but had it on for about half an hour and touch wood no signs of any stuck/dead pixels. going to give it a good going over tonight/ tomorrow

so I've had the monitor for a good few days now. @G550's review pretty well summed the monitor up. for the money it really is brilliant. I don't have a proper reference point as I was coming from a ~7 year old monitor but I have to say it really is glorious. anyone in the market for a ~£200 monitor should definitely consider the LG well worth the money. I'll post up the settings I settle on in a few day time - there are so many options it's a tad mind boggling for me at the minute and I keep changing/tinkering with them!

the only issue I've had so far, and this is likely nothing to do with the monitor is that windows sometimes 'forgets' to load the colour profile I've saved so I have to go into the monitor settings and click 'set as default' even though it already says it's the default! as I say though I'm pointing the finger at Win10 for that one rather than the monitor.

 

[Thekwango]

Sure thats not the monitor itself during warm-up from cold?
Mine starts overly bright then takes around 30-40 minutes to settle to the brightness level I'd set/calibrated it to when warm.
A little annoying, but just set one of the custom monitor presets to a lower brightness setting which you can use whilst warming-up and then swap over to the other after 30mins or so.

nah it's defo windows being special. I must do a fresh reinstall. this install has a few bugs (main gripe being it keeps forgetting to sync the system time up properly!)

I tend to run it in strobed mode rather than non-strobed all the time (desktop and game) as the fluidity of motion is so much better, even in just desktop use.
The display has enough basic contrast and brightness to give a pretty vibrant picture in strobed mode. Just need to find the right gamma level in game settings to get it looking right.

Personally, I don't think I would consider purchasing any LCD monitor without some form of strobing going forward, unless it was to be used purely for static work.

I have 17 year old 19inch Sony E400 CRT sitting here, which still just about works if you coax it for a few minutes at switch on (power on/off repeatedly for a minute or so), but on the basis of the LG's performance I think the Sony will be permanently relegated to the loft or perhaps even the re-cycler's.
FWIW, the Sony always started very bright too and settled after a half-hour or so, though thats arguably more of a cost-saving/design flaw with Sony's FD Trinitron tubes of that era.

haven't actually given the 'stobe' a proper try yet!