LED backlighted monitors - not happy with the direction things are going!

[corkyg]

In Windows 7, you can run the display calibration wizard and often improve things. Run DCCW.

 

[Eug]

White is relative so I don't have much of a problem with it being slightly blue-ish. Your eyes will adjust to it just like the they'll adjust to a "warm" CCFL. For people who need calibrated displays, it might be an issue.

Well, that's about anyone who prints anything more than web pages in colour.

I've got my iMac somewhat closely calibrated so I just print from that. I think I'm gonna have ditch my older Dell monitor because I've had trouble calibrating it with a hardware colour calibrator with accompanying software, but I suspect I may run into the same problem with a low end LED model as well.

 

[Concillian]

All the new Dell monitors are LED backlighted. Notebooks too. My biggest gripe with these as I can tell immediately when they are powered up - their whites are not white. Reminds me of DLP boxes that were not calibrated correctly. Whites had a blue cast to them, sometimes with a splash of green.

Problem is software really cannot correct it. At first it may seem OK but then there's a peak somewhere else where it should not be and it's easily spotted when comparing the same image side by side on a conventional CCFL backlighted display.

I understand RGB LED backlights are superior since each channel can be controlled to get the color temperature desired but these white LED backlights are just too darned blue! RGB backlights are not likely to be found on entry level products where cost is of concern as well.

Anyone else notice this trend?

LED is a buzzword right now.

It's worse than just the blue issue. LED monitors are typically bleeding more than equivalently featured CCFL monitors.

The manufacturers and integrators are desperately trying to make LEDs economical so they can make money off the buzzword and the "green" movement. They are cutting corners that matter on the consumer level LED screens. Corners that weren't being cut on similarly featured CCFL screens.

 

[Rubycon]

In Windows 7, you can run the display calibration wizard and often improve things. Run DCCW.

I have and it makes things even worse. Again if you start out with a spectrally biased source (backlight) adjusting curves in the LCD isn't going to help much. It's like using an EQ on a recording that's completely missing (or severely lacking) information in a certain frequency range.

As far as bleeding goes I have not seen much issue of concern there surprisingly enough. I have seen edge lit LED backlighted televisions and they have all sorts of uniformity problems. (clouds!) D:

 

[gorobei]

are you actually using these led monitors or setting them up for other people?

Given your hardware upgrading cycle, I cant imagine anyone forcing you to use such lower end equipment.

 

[Throckmorton]

Why are there no RGBLED monitors? You would think people would pay an extra $5 or whatever it costs vs CFL on a high end 30"... Especially considering the longer lifetime you get.

 

[Rubycon]

are you actually using these led monitors or setting them up for other people?

Given your hardware upgrading cycle, I cant imagine anyone forcing you to use such lower end equipment.

They are shipping with new systems and I notice this immediately when sitting in front of one.

 

[gorobei]

obviously a conspiracy by a large multinational conglomerate.

 

[Rubycon]

Funny thing is if you wear those spectacles outside for an hour and come inside and take them off everything looks like you're watching it on one of those crazy monitors. :biggrin:

It's like diving without blue protection. When you come back to the surface everything looks crazy pink. Same thing with skiing.

 

[corkyg]

Ah yes, . . . waiting for the auto white balance adjustment.

 

[Rubycon]

Why are there no RGBLED monitors? You would think people would pay an extra $5 or whatever it costs vs CFL on a high end 30"... Especially considering the longer lifetime you get.

It costs a LOT more than five dollars for said differences. A LOT!
The benefits would be there but you would have to pay dearly for it. That said a display of about forty inches with the pixel density of the iphone4 retinal display would be very nice.