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[Jhatfie]

It seems that pretty much every model of monitor these days has some sort of common issue (or two), from IPS glow to backlight bleed to black crush to banding and so on and so on.

 

[motsm]

LCD technology is garbage. Hopefully the burn in issues with OLED don't turn out to be a huge problem.

 

[moonbogg]

I knew I wasn't the only one who valued a quality electronics product's smell. This guy won me over with the following video. His opinion matters because he values the smell. He smells his electronics products and so do I. I like the quality smell from a high end beast component.

https://youtu.be/lVKeFQlYClI?t=149

 

[hawtdawg]

LCD is a garbage technology that has only become passable after 20 years due to all sorts of different tricks and band-aids to hide its fundamental issues.

 

[Piroko]

I knew I wasn't the only one who valued a quality electronics product's smell. This guy won me over with the following video. His opinion matters because he values the smell. He smells his electronics products and so do I. I like the quality smell from a high end beast component.

https://youtu.be/lVKeFQlYClI?t=149

Honestly, he spent so much time ranting over design and the on screen menu but then only glossed over ergonomics and actual screen performance that his conclusion left me puzzled. He seems to suggest that design and a joystick is worth several hundred dollars because "both screens perform the same".
Also, with electronics, any smell is a bad smell. Only no smell at all is worth mentioning :|

 

[xthetenth]

Anybody else weirded out by the twenty-seven nine pronunciation rather than the two seventy nine in their head?

 

[thilanliyan]

I am in a similar boat to the OP. I am still running a BenQ FP241VW bought in 2007 for $700. Everything still works but I wanted to upgrade to something at least 30". However, all the 32" MVA monitors seem to have some sort of issue so I've held off, and I'm not so sure about buying a 4K or widescreen monitor yet. I may just wait it out for OLED monitors or maybe even TVs to come down to the $1000-$1500 range.

 

[Madpacket]

Wow,....

I own the same panel but bought one when they first came out so the panel manfacturer date is from March 2015 I believe. My panel has none of the light bleed issues these panels exhibit. It looks like the entire batch is defective! WTF...

 

[marcplante]

I am in a similar boat to the OP. I am still running a BenQ FP241VW bought in 2007 for $700. Everything still works but I wanted to upgrade to something at least 30". However, all the 32" MVA monitors seem to have some sort of issue so I've held off, and I'm not so sure about buying a 4K or widescreen monitor yet. I may just wait it out for OLED monitors or maybe even TVs to come down to the $1000-$1500 range.

Look at my 32" 2k monitor thread.(Samsung, benq). The new Asus 32" sounds pretty prefect according to Toms hardware review. I bought the benq and see no issues with banding that some complained about. The Asus also offers 75 hz refresh.

 

[marcplante]

The benq has a long enough warranty to indicate they have reasonable qc. Everything seems solid so far, thigh I have only had it a couple weeks.

 

[bdunosk]

I still have a BenQ elevator music stuck in my head, 15 years later, from being on hold with them for 60+ minutes.

BenQ BenQ I'm so craaazy... crazy in love with yooou... BEN-Q!

Hopefully it's better now. God, how I wish I couldn't still hear that awful song when I think about that.

 

[DigDog]

lol ... you want a 30" monitor without issues. and yet even 24" monitors have issues. because the quality control is horrible and the manufacturers save on it because they found it has almost no impact on their sales; bad monitor keeps getting returned? keep selling it, someone will keep it.

add the new ultrawide, freesync, gsync, high refresh, ulmb, etc technologies that make them even more desirable, and you should be able to figure out why Asus & co don't give a toss about QC.

i also want a new monitor. i also find it shocking the number of people who (with attached images of proof) report horrible bleedthrough, 10+ stuck pixels on new screens, chassis parts falling off.
the answer is don't buy one.
wait.

wait until the novelty has died off, and homogeneous market forces them to produce high quality units in order to compete. (like it happened a few years ago on 1920 x 1080 screens)

give it a year and quality will be back to acceptable standards.