I have 4 of these monitors and 3 of them suffer from extreme backlight problems. 1 arrived with a dead pixel but I was luckily able to massage it out in 2 seconds.
One issue is with bright spots bleeding through the top and bottom as well as both sides of the monitor while leaving the middle of the screen OK. You cannot get rid of these no matter what settings you adjust. This problem again occurs with 3 of the LCD's.
The other problem is with the colors. Having 3 of them side by side (while the other one is used by my gf), they all have considerably different colors, brightness and saturation, and the worst part is, when trying to adjust the colors to somehow make them even, you CANNOT ADJUST THE GREENS making the effort pretty damn difficult. Only the red and blue levels can be adjusted while the greens are factory adjusted. (all 4 montors have different green levels too...55, 73, 87, 33...)
The very first one that I have is near perfect though, just a bit on the dark side but that's ok since it's quite accurate in terms of color reproduction and doesn't suffer at all from the backlight bleeding problem the other 3 exhibit. However, it's almost as if they've used different LCD panels on the last 3 I've bought.
I'm trying to get Sony to replace these. So far their service is pretty good although I've yet to get the replacements. They actually answer their phones within a very reasonable time and are very friendly and helpful. They actually speak perfect English and makes me believe that the other person's name is indeed Jim and not Rajagopal.
One issue is with bright spots bleeding through the top and bottom as well as both sides of the monitor while leaving the middle of the screen OK. You cannot get rid of these no matter what settings you adjust. This problem again occurs with 3 of the LCD's.
The other problem is with the colors. Having 3 of them side by side (while the other one is used by my gf), they all have considerably different colors, brightness and saturation, and the worst part is, when trying to adjust the colors to somehow make them even, you CANNOT ADJUST THE GREENS making the effort pretty damn difficult. Only the red and blue levels can be adjusted while the greens are factory adjusted. (all 4 montors have different green levels too...55, 73, 87, 33...)
The very first one that I have is near perfect though, just a bit on the dark side but that's ok since it's quite accurate in terms of color reproduction and doesn't suffer at all from the backlight bleeding problem the other 3 exhibit. However, it's almost as if they've used different LCD panels on the last 3 I've bought.
I'm trying to get Sony to replace these. So far their service is pretty good although I've yet to get the replacements. They actually answer their phones within a very reasonable time and are very friendly and helpful. They actually speak perfect English and makes me believe that the other person's name is indeed Jim and not Rajagopal.
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