Well.. The UPS truck just dropped off my Sony G420s about an hour ago and I have it hooked up right now.
I'm rather dissapointed with it because the lower right edge is brownish (really visible on white screens) and the screen geometry seems screwy. It's like there is a bow in the screen about 2/3rds the way down on both sides. I tried messing with the geometry settings, but it's still not right. I don't think I should have to mess with anything quite frankly considering the cost of this thing. Is this normal for the Trinitron's? I don't remember seeing this in the displays at the stores.
What's funny is that I thought that I'd have a problem with the AG lines, but that's the least of my worries with this monitor. Is this brown area common on these monitors, or did I get a bad one?
I think of the lines like this: They are sort of like a scratch on a car. If you obsess on them, they will drive you crazy, but if you just step back and take a look at the whole monitor, you don't ever notice them. I've gotten used to them already and I've never had a Trinitron before.
When I was looking at the text, I was thinking. It's ok, I guess. Not horribly better than my 17" shadowmask. But.. When I ran a few digital photos on it, all I can say is wow! This thing really accels in color rendition.
What else I think is spectacular about AG is that the photos look more luminesant. It's like looking at a good slide through a loupe on a light table. The contrast is so beautiful. It's like looking at the real thing.
Anyway.. I hope that Dell is easy to deal with on exchanging this thing. It is one beautiful monitor overall, I just have to get one without these defects if I can.
Oh.. I wanted to note on the box. It was a little damaged in one area, but it was at the back and clear of any important part of the monitor. Though.. The styrofoam was a little crunched on the right front top of the monitor. It doesn't appear to be damaged at all in that area. The brown area is on the bottom right hand corner and not the top. Can a blow to the top cause a brown area on the bottom corner?
Usually you have the seams that go on a diagonal at the corners of the case. What's weird about this monitor is that there are lines that looked like seams and they appear to have been filled in and then painted or something. I think it's really strange. I don't mind a seam at all. It looks better than a patchy fill in and cover up. I wonder what Sony was thinking?
The color of the case is different. It's a two tone gray. I was expecting beige or something. The bezel around the display is light gray and the rest of the thing is a darker gray. Wouldn't be my first choice, but it's certainly not bad looking by any means.
I've never had a 19" monitor that was capable of higher resolutions. What I find strange is that my desktop is not illuminated from edge to edge like all my other monitors have been. Why isn't the entire monitor display lit? It seems like there is a quarter inch gap that runs all along the edge of the monitor. It's robbing me of display area. Is there a way to change this?
Overall.. I think it's a great monitor with the exception of the brown area and the geometry problem on the edges.
Sal
I'm rather dissapointed with it because the lower right edge is brownish (really visible on white screens) and the screen geometry seems screwy. It's like there is a bow in the screen about 2/3rds the way down on both sides. I tried messing with the geometry settings, but it's still not right. I don't think I should have to mess with anything quite frankly considering the cost of this thing. Is this normal for the Trinitron's? I don't remember seeing this in the displays at the stores.
What's funny is that I thought that I'd have a problem with the AG lines, but that's the least of my worries with this monitor. Is this brown area common on these monitors, or did I get a bad one?
I think of the lines like this: They are sort of like a scratch on a car. If you obsess on them, they will drive you crazy, but if you just step back and take a look at the whole monitor, you don't ever notice them. I've gotten used to them already and I've never had a Trinitron before.
When I was looking at the text, I was thinking. It's ok, I guess. Not horribly better than my 17" shadowmask. But.. When I ran a few digital photos on it, all I can say is wow! This thing really accels in color rendition.
What else I think is spectacular about AG is that the photos look more luminesant. It's like looking at a good slide through a loupe on a light table. The contrast is so beautiful. It's like looking at the real thing.
Anyway.. I hope that Dell is easy to deal with on exchanging this thing. It is one beautiful monitor overall, I just have to get one without these defects if I can.
Oh.. I wanted to note on the box. It was a little damaged in one area, but it was at the back and clear of any important part of the monitor. Though.. The styrofoam was a little crunched on the right front top of the monitor. It doesn't appear to be damaged at all in that area. The brown area is on the bottom right hand corner and not the top. Can a blow to the top cause a brown area on the bottom corner?
Usually you have the seams that go on a diagonal at the corners of the case. What's weird about this monitor is that there are lines that looked like seams and they appear to have been filled in and then painted or something. I think it's really strange. I don't mind a seam at all. It looks better than a patchy fill in and cover up. I wonder what Sony was thinking?
The color of the case is different. It's a two tone gray. I was expecting beige or something. The bezel around the display is light gray and the rest of the thing is a darker gray. Wouldn't be my first choice, but it's certainly not bad looking by any means.
I've never had a 19" monitor that was capable of higher resolutions. What I find strange is that my desktop is not illuminated from edge to edge like all my other monitors have been. Why isn't the entire monitor display lit? It seems like there is a quarter inch gap that runs all along the edge of the monitor. It's robbing me of display area. Is there a way to change this?
Overall.. I think it's a great monitor with the exception of the brown area and the geometry problem on the edges.
Sal
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