New monitor killing my eyes

[latch]

Yesterday I received two Philips Brilliance 240PW9EB. As soon as I started using them, my eyes started to hurt real bad. I spent time calibrating them (the default brightness is insanely high), but nothing I did really worked. Lowering the brightness a lot does help, but its still impossible to use for more than 5 minutes, and the image quality is horrible. This is an IPS panel - my first one.

To me, it seems like colors aren't solid...lighter colors, white in particular, are much worse. At first I thought there was a protective film on the screen (its matte, but so was my previous one).

I took a picture of my old monitor:
http://img42.imageshack.us/i/img2962r.jpg/

and a picture of the new one:
http://img514.imageshack.us/i/img2965m.jpg/

My old monitor was much cheaper (a 22" samsung TN panel from 2 years ago), but the quality is much better.

I also took a short 5 second clip of each monitor displaying white.

My old monitor:
http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=260pctt&s=6

and my new monitor:
http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=11l3f3p&s=6

If you go into full screen, you can notice that the new monitor looks like rainbows or something. Also, there's a yellow refresh going on. What the hell is that?

Both monitors exhibit this behavior, but one is WAY worse than the other.

Any thoughts?

 

[TemjinGold]

Err return the monitors?

 

[latch]

ya, starting to talk to support about that...RMA LCDs is always such a pain, hopefully they'll want to keep my business.

 

[Indus]

Try turning down brightness to 0 and contrast to 50-60% if you're somehow stuck with them.

I'm in the same boat as you that I have an old Samsung 225 BW and although its only 1680 x 1050, its still perfect for me with no glare and doesn't hurt my eyes which is why I'm very reluctant to upgrade.

However I have heard good things about LED monitors but they're expensive. If you are able to RMA, I suggest going to check one out at a store before buying.