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21" Sony G520 has washed out looking text.

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XRdirtHead

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Hi,
I purchased the G520 and my text appears washed out. Any ideas? Everything else seems to be fine..games, pictures...etc...
 
A number of nVidia boards mated with a Sony trinitron will give you [comparatively] washed out text...try a card from Matrox and see if you still have the same problem. 🙂
 
Make sure to go through all the brightness and contrast settings to get it to where you like it. Upgrade to the latest drivers for your video card. Im running one on a 64MB Hercules GeForce2 GTS and its beautiful.

Viper22

Also do yourself a favor and pick up a set of BNC cables. That will help a lot especially if your running higher resolutions.
 
I've noticed it works better with Contrast at MAX and then adjust the Brightness.

If you have Adope Photoshop, it comes with a color/monitor calibration (ADOBE GAMMA) that works well. They start the calibration with the above sttings and go from there.
 
It could be many things.
1) You could have just a bad monitor, switching it for another G520 may help.
2) You could have a bad video card.
3) You could have a video card and drivers which are optimized for games and not text - try a different make/model.
4) You could be using cheap/bad monitor cables.
5) It could be the fact that shadow mask and aperature grill monitors have different strengths and weaknesses. Many people dislike the look when switching types. I've never seen the G520 ranked very high on reviews for text quality - but most reviews say it is great in games.
 
Thanks for the help. I dropped the contrast down a bit and it seems to be better. I have 3 other sonys and they all seem more crisp on text. My graphics card is the Geforce3 TI 200 with the latest drivers from NVidia.
 
hey i have a sony g520 too but i'm using it with an ati aiw

i have the same prblem but the text was washedout and a bit blurry

i turned up the moire setting and now its fine..
 


<< I've noticed it works better with Contrast at MAX and then adjust the Brightness. >>

Yep, esp. with Sonys. Also, try using the MonTest utility (aka Nokia Monitor Test utility), it has a good brightness/contrast setup feature.
 


<< A number of nVidia boards mated with a Sony trinitron will give you [comparatively] washed out text...try a card from Matrox and see if you still have the same problem. 🙂 >>


I've never heard of that before. What causes it? I have a GF2 Ultra with a 21" Sony E500. It's absolutely beautiful.
 
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