I just recieved my XPS via UPS today.... The Display is Lousy. Everything else seems fine.
I just tried upping the vibrance on my LG XPS Display - (I have the same feature on my Dell 8600 gforce GoFx 5650 Graphics card also made by Nvida) and YES this increases color intensity but it dosent eliminate the problem I am noticing on my XPS LG LCD....... The so called sparkle.......
You can see what the "Sparlkle" is all about when you examine the screen closley with a 10X loupe magnifier....
NONE OF THIS HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE GLOSSY COATING ON THE SURFACE OF THE LCD. THAT IS ANOTHER ISSUE
When you examine an area that is supposed to be solid white, for example, on this LG screen you can see a band of all black pixels going across the screen horizontally above and below EACH ROW of white pixels. On my Dell 8600 (also a 1920 x 1200 WUXGA diaplay) there is no band of black pixels above and below each horizontal row of white pixels like there is on the XPS. So the Solid White areas on the 8600 display appear as sparkly greyish-white areas on the XPS (because they are mixing black and white pixels). The Square Pixel matrix on the 8600 displays colors more solidly. The extra bands of color on the XPS display causes the solid colors to appear "not so solid"......, Yes it gives it a sparkling effect. This ALSO AFFECTS text.
In short, it makes for a lousy Display.
I am studying this more as I write this - the whole problem with the XPS LG display (I havent seen the Samsung one yet) has to do with two things
1) The pixel shape (square vs. vertical bar)
2) The space (or lines) in between the individual pixels
All this becomes very apparent if you have a 10X loupe magnifier and "a frame of reference", that is - another display that "looks normal".
In my case, my normal display is the WUXGA 1920 x 1200 display on my Dell 8600 made by Sharp. On my 8600, the solid colors are all really solid, there is very little or no black lines or bars between rows of pixels and the pixels are all really square on the 8600 display, on the XPS display they are not square; they are short vertical bars.....
I wish I had a powerful enough closeup lens that I could document this in digital photographs..........
Maybe I can make some accurate drawings to illustrate the problem. I intend to let Dell know what is going on as well as everybody on this Forum.
What a mess.......
I need a new display (or another computer - the Sony display made by Sharp)
I just tried upping the vibrance on my LG XPS Display - (I have the same feature on my Dell 8600 gforce GoFx 5650 Graphics card also made by Nvida) and YES this increases color intensity but it dosent eliminate the problem I am noticing on my XPS LG LCD....... The so called sparkle.......
You can see what the "Sparlkle" is all about when you examine the screen closley with a 10X loupe magnifier....
NONE OF THIS HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE GLOSSY COATING ON THE SURFACE OF THE LCD. THAT IS ANOTHER ISSUE
When you examine an area that is supposed to be solid white, for example, on this LG screen you can see a band of all black pixels going across the screen horizontally above and below EACH ROW of white pixels. On my Dell 8600 (also a 1920 x 1200 WUXGA diaplay) there is no band of black pixels above and below each horizontal row of white pixels like there is on the XPS. So the Solid White areas on the 8600 display appear as sparkly greyish-white areas on the XPS (because they are mixing black and white pixels). The Square Pixel matrix on the 8600 displays colors more solidly. The extra bands of color on the XPS display causes the solid colors to appear "not so solid"......, Yes it gives it a sparkling effect. This ALSO AFFECTS text.
In short, it makes for a lousy Display.
I am studying this more as I write this - the whole problem with the XPS LG display (I havent seen the Samsung one yet) has to do with two things
1) The pixel shape (square vs. vertical bar)
2) The space (or lines) in between the individual pixels
All this becomes very apparent if you have a 10X loupe magnifier and "a frame of reference", that is - another display that "looks normal".
In my case, my normal display is the WUXGA 1920 x 1200 display on my Dell 8600 made by Sharp. On my 8600, the solid colors are all really solid, there is very little or no black lines or bars between rows of pixels and the pixels are all really square on the 8600 display, on the XPS display they are not square; they are short vertical bars.....
I wish I had a powerful enough closeup lens that I could document this in digital photographs..........
Maybe I can make some accurate drawings to illustrate the problem. I intend to let Dell know what is going on as well as everybody on this Forum.
What a mess.......
I need a new display (or another computer - the Sony display made by Sharp)
