Recent content by BearOso

If it doesn't bother you, that's good. It just interferes severely with what I personally use and develop, so it's a problem for me. People other than me might not see it as much of a problem.

Sorry, I should have said it out in the open: The only variable was the monitor. The monitor, actually monitors, all handle it the same way. Hot swapping another _different_ monitor, not the same model, with exact same settings on the computer alleviates the issue. Different graphics cards...

I recently tried out some Samsung 204t monitors only to succumb to the same problem on all the 204t monitors I tested. Now I'm actually looking into the popular Dell 2405fpw, which also uses a Samsung panel, and I'm wondering if it has the same issue. Here's the deal. On the Samsung 204t I...

If you're doing anything that requires smooth motion, stay away from the 204t. I tried a few of them and they all did the same thing, whether under Windows, Linux, Mac OS, DVI and VGA, 60 and 75hz. This was a peculiar "skipping" when an attempt is made to synchronize to the vertical blank...

I read the same things, thus why I bought it. The only reason I can think of why this isn't the same would be because Samsung couldn't get the "overdrive" technology to work correctly, and defaulted back to a TN panel. Even now, trying google, no one has commented on display depth, but I HAVE...

Thanks Intelia, I'm pretty sure now that I've been screwed over. http://www.sequoyahcomputer.com/Monitors/monitors.htm According to this TN film panels have yellowish tints at off angles. Combined with the inexplicable dithering, I'm sure I somehow ended up with a TN panel. I've decided to...

Ok, I see now that the Acer 1912 is a MVA panel, not a TN-film.

I dropped down to Windows to run the tfttest program, and yes, there is noticeable banding. I also noticed the second image I posted actually has banding in Windows, same brightness and contrast, when in Linux it just has dithering. What mystifies me, however, is that you don't see dithering on...

I've looked into the issue some more and discovered that 8-bit displays do implement range subsets for color correction, hence the existence of "10-bit gamma" on some newer panels. Chuck, you're probably correct on the boundary difference. It is ONLY 252 that is darker, 253-255 are identical...

I should probably add that changing the brightness and contrast settings also alter the dithering methods, which leads me to believe that the panel is restructuring the display output to change its characteristics instead of changing the backlight voltage/intensity too. So could it be that...

Ok, I looked at the bittest image and I can see the difference between 255 and 252. But I can also see the difference on my 6-bit laptop display. What primarily concerns me is the dithering in the darker ranges of colors. Looking at the following images...

I recently purchased a Samsung 193p+ LCD monitor. I noticed that the monitor dithers some colors, particularly shades of gray. I've only ever owned 6-bit panels in the past, so I'm not sure whether this is normal for the monitor in particular, i.e. related to color-correction or something...