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E1505 screen sparkle on all screens?

post #1 of 22
4/14/06 at 3:33pm
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i have heard stories about screen sparkle on the E1505, and although this doesnt annoy everyone, it absolutely drives me nuts. I noticed you can configure the e1505 with three different screen options. Do all of them have sparkle issues? How is the light leakage?
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post #2 of 22
4/14/06 at 3:42pm
u never know how bad the sparkles or light leakage is till u get YOUR screen. they are all different. dell is pretty good about their screens so i wouldn't worry too much about light leakage. on my wuxga truelife screen, i have no light leakage but i get sparkles out of the ass. i've gotten used to it though but whenever i use a crt monitor i see the difference. if u don't like sparkles don't get truelife.
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post #3 of 22
4/14/06 at 3:50pm
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so sparkles are associated with truelife? does it have anything to do with resolution? i believe there was only one configuration for the 1505 without truelife
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post #4 of 22
4/14/06 at 4:53pm
i don't notice either of these issues i have the widescreen truelife screen.
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post #5 of 22
4/14/06 at 5:09pm
Lucky!!!!!
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post #6 of 22
4/14/06 at 5:19pm
I haven't noticed any sparkles either. I have the WSXGA+ Truelife screen, and the only thing that I've noticed is the "glossy" screen produces some minor reflections depending on my lighting conditions, which haven't cause me any real grief yet. Honestly, I love the screen so far!
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post #7 of 22
4/15/06 at 12:08pm
It's the brand of screen that does it - the LG has almost none of this and the Samsung has a TON - I'm betting if you're seeing tons of sparkles and bad color saturation etc you got the Samsung.
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post #8 of 22
4/16/06 at 5:14pm
true life gives the glossy coating, and if you look at the screen a certain way u can see the screen looks smudgy. I think this may be what produces a sparklish effect?
either way i had a XPS-2 that i just got rid of, and it had a WUXGA LG that was only decent.
My new E1505 WSXGA w/ True Life seems to be alot better than my old screen.
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post #9 of 22
4/16/06 at 11:31pm
No sparkles with my WSXGA+ Truelife screen. If you have smudges on your screen then first, stop touching you display and second clean your display.

Honestly most of the time Dell's displays are pretty good, but you only hear about it when someone gets one they don't like. I'd say there is a good chance you'll get a perfectly nice screen.

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post #10 of 22
4/17/06 at 12:33pm
mine doesnt have sparkles either - i dont even really know what it looks like. however, it is really annoying to view it outside and a very very tiny bit of light leakage at the bottom that i hope will go away. i dont know what type of display mine has, EVEREST/pstrip can't read from my monitor. i think it's LG but thats just a guess because i hear those are kindof dark.

i am sad that the displays can only show 262k colors, but the response time is really good.
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post #11 of 22
4/17/06 at 1:14pm
No sparkles , deadpixels or whatso ever with my WSXGA+ Truelife screen also.
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post #12 of 22
4/23/06 at 1:43am
I'm not even sure what you guys mean by "sparkles". I haven't seen any sparkling on mine, Wsxga+ w/ TL.
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post #13 of 22
4/23/06 at 1:15pm
What do you guys mean when you say "sparkles" ?

Typically the only time you get what might be a sparkling effect on a LCD is when the LVDS connection from the graphics chipset to the LCD is poor and picking up a lot of noise. This in turn causes certain pixels to blink or flash depending on the image on the screen.
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post #14 of 22
4/24/06 at 4:25pm
[quote=Stereodude]What do you guys mean when you say "sparkles" ?
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usually its only noticable on whites and greys. I usually don't mind some sparkles but my second E1505 has "waves" almost as if lines were drawn through the sparkels. I am returning it. The screen on my first E1505 was perfect. I have the sxga truelife screen.
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post #15 of 22
4/24/06 at 9:26pm
Does anyone have a picture of this effect?
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post #16 of 22
4/26/06 at 2:52pm
No sparkles on mine, I don't have the upgraded resolution, just the truelife. The sparkles look like little rainbow dust things? Kind of hard to explain it if you've never seen it.
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post #17 of 22
5/21/06 at 8:42pm
I have it a lot on mine, I got bad light leakage also, and horrible viewing angles. If I look at it head on, the sides are dark, like I'm looking at it from an angle. I got the WSXGA, LG LCD. I'm gonna try to get it replaced.
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post #18 of 22
5/21/06 at 10:52pm
It's a myth IMO. Never seen it on any laptop I've either owned or used, and that's lots BTW. Sparkles schmarkles I say.

Noody
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post #19 of 22
5/22/06 at 12:01am
Angry Nude, you probably haven't seen an XPS m140 or e1405 yet, those have the worst sparkles out of any Dell Laptop screens.
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post #20 of 22
5/26/06 at 9:03pm
Okay well I got my replacement laptop today.

I havent really played with it much. New display has a slightly better viewing angle. Cept the corners at the bottom are darker then the old screen. So I guess in that department is better. But now this new screen has a sparkle effect (streaking) that's more noticible then the old one.

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I havent seen any other E1505 WSXGA screen so I dont know if it actually is any better. Should I just accept that Dell screens just arent that great and live with it?
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