30" monitor question - follow-up report
- From: Peter Huebner <no.one@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:14:52 +1300
After gathering as much info as I could and scratching my head a lot
about how much money might be worth spending I decided to get the new
Samsung 26" panel. I ordered one the day they were to become available
here in NZ only to have delivery date first go to TBA and then put
back 5 weeks. Meh.
So I increased my bet by 150% and rang Dell & ordered the 3008
monitor. After a week and a half, the new beast finally got delivered
today.
First impressions: installation was flawless, except the included
cables are damn short. Wouldn't have worked with my desk. Fortunately
I had a 5m USB and a 5m DVI cable in the drawer. Plugged it in, turned
it on, changed input from vga to dvi and away it went. Boot screen
displays just fine. So does windows desktop. Windows suddenly decided
that my video card is capable of 2560x1600 after all, so that's all
good.
I've settled for the monitor to display at 1920x1200, increased the
dpi to 115% in windows settings and moved the monitor back about 40cm
from where the old monitor used to sit. This works well for me - I no
longer need the reading glasses and I can read the text and see
desktop icons just fine. There is no visible stepping or fuzzyness
that I can perceive. The icons look fine (WinXP Pro, Sp1) unlike some
of the scaling I've seen in the past.
Out of the box the colours of the display were garish, and I am having
some problems figuring out how to achieve something that works well
for me. Contrast and saturation seem to do much the same thing, as do
brightness and gamma, and I think I will have to play with this many
more times until I get it right.
When I set the screen to blank(black) I can see that the backlight
bleeds some in the bottom right corner and in the centre of the top
edge, but this is only just noticable and doesn't show up when
anything is being displayed. No bright or dead pixels that I have
found and that's all good. The blue LED in the power button is a bit
too bright. I think I shall have to set a jar of pencils or something
similar in front of it. Fortunately it's in the bottom right right
corner, nearly at the outside of the bezel.
I've taken the display through a number of resolutions, from 1280x1024
which was the original setting of my windows (19" HP monitor) to
1680x1050 to 1920x1200 to 2560x1600 and it looks very good in all of
them. The 2560 is too fine for my eyes, and I can't use it for the
desktop. But I have fired up a couple of games in that resolution and
the result is very very pleasing.
I was apprehensive when I placed the order, and I must say on the
whole I am happy with what I got. It's not going back in the box and
home to Dell ... unless it blows up some time the next 2 weeks.
-Peter
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