I own this monitor but can't seem to get the color right, things look washed out, and some purple/blues are hard to distinguish. Recommended settings?
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I owned this monitor as well and finally sent it back because the image quality is absolutely terrible. You will not be able to get it right. This monitor has everything going for it and the image quality ruins it all.
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Hey Alex, The "gamer" presets all have a really high gamma setting thats locked and cant be adjusted. You need to set the monitor to the normal profile and then change the gamma. That fixed my issue with color and washed out images. To go to the different profiles just open the osd and where u select the gamer profiles go up. This took me about two days to figure out, hope this helps :D.
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It looks really blue on my TV and on my computer monitor. I looked at this question's answers and assumed it was a defect. But after exchanging it for a new one, I still have the same problem! :/
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It may be the monitor you have plugged in :) mine caps out at 1680 x 1050 ///// try plugging it into a hdmi tv :)
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Somebody posted these settings, try them and post back your results. Backlight: 60 Contrast: 89 Brightness: 51 H. Sharpness: 50 V. Sharpness: 50 Color: 52 Tint: R2 Expert control: Dynamic Contrast: Off Noise Reduction: Off MPEG Noise Reduction: Off Super Resolution: Off Black Level: Low Real Cinema: On Color Gamut: Standard Edge Enhancer: High Color Filter: Off Color Temperature: Warm Gamma: 2.2 Method: 2 Points Pattern: Outer R/G/B Contrast: 0/0/0 R/G/B Brightness: 0/0/0 R/G/B/C/M/Y/K Tint / Color: 0 (all) TruMotion: User De-Judder: 1 De-Blur: 7 LED Local Dimming: High Aspect: Just Scan Energy Saving: Off Also this link to a review of this model has some info that may be useful: http://www.highdefjunkies.com/showthread.php?9230-Review-LG-55LW5600-LED-LCD
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It's much clearer during the day than at night. The nighttime picture is B&W; a as opposed to color. I've never seen a monitor with crystal clear images at night.
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Yes, I have, that's why I bought it. A few things. There aren't any DVI ports so you'll have to connect either RGB or HDMI. My video card only has DVI ports so I had to get a DVI-HDMI connector. Also, I have played with the adjustments a lot. My nvidia settings report the native resolution being 1920x1080, but it's actually 1366x768. Anything higher or lower and the text looks really crappy, blurry and whatnot. This is when you connect it via HDMI. To tell you the truth, it's not too bad, I have only had it a couple of weeks as well and I am still adjusting it. Haier's website is no help though.
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In general, this is a decent TN panel with very good color, and relatively minimal color shift from different viewing angles. While it will not compete with a good IPS monitor, after calibrating, colors actually look very good. People saying that this monitor looks washed out probably do not have it set up correctly. It is far from washed out, with decent saturation and good contrast when properly adjusted.
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The main downside to this monitor is that it is a TN matrix panel. I have had nothing but IPS panels and I never realized TN panels could be so bad. Here's an example. Basically, I am looking at a white screen with my head level with the monitor. The middle of the screen is white, the bottom of the screen is a bit cyan/blue-ish white, the top of the screen is a pinkish-red white. I am about 2 feet away from the screen. If you can find a 120hz IPS panel, I'd say go for it. That's really the only downside. Getting the color, gamma, contrast, and brightness levels correct while not crushing blacks or washing out whites can be pretty difficult, but there are plenty of programs and calibrators and settings that you can find online that are quite suitable. Honestly, it's a turn off but I am getting used to it.
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Steven, link me to a 2D scrolling shooter, and I'll snap a picture of this monitor at 90 rotation. Right now just browsing the web I can see a slight haze on the screen. If I look at it at different angles the screen gets dark, but head on it looks nice just not as bright.
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I am inclined to think something is wrong. Mine has a nice picture. I did no adjustments on my monitor. I kept the factory setting because the picture was great.
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same problem here...screen is totally black instead of white/black typical night vision. We have a $50 monitor that has better night vision. This one is over $200. I went to Motorola's website to see if there was something that could be done. Their official answer on their FAQ page: "increase the ambient light in the room". Seriously???
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there are no stupid questions...except for this one, haha no I'm kidding. It is 1080 and it has an HDMI input, but to be honest I never figured out the HDMI, it looked greenish, so it was missing a color palate, I have it on a regular DVI to my Mac, I completely recommend it, I had another monitor that was supposed to be better and ended up return it, so far it's been a great monitor.Hope this helps.
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That is the true contrast ratio. Other monitors that claim things like 8,000,000:1 are using adaptive dimming and other tricks to attain that. The proof is in the picture, and this monitor has excellent picture. A calibration solution with hardware puck is A MUST though!
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i have a different model but similar issue- the color was only black and white. the green is a shared port so use it as yellow and go in to the settings - go to options then down to input options. then go to AV input and change the setting to VIDEO. I bought a tv and the online trouble shooter said bad tv so I ordered another and it did the same. this time I called support and they helped
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No monitor comes color calibrated. I calibrated mine using Displays > calibrate.
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check your settings on the TV. Hooking my DC up to my Sony reset the "scene" settings for PC input and I have to manually set the colors back
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I just saw your post and have had problems matching color with my printer. I checked with some professional labs and seems like the only solution is to get color calibration software for your monitor. I bought Spyder2. It did well in reviews and was relatively easy to use. There are more professional and expensive packages also. The improvement has been dramatic. You simply cannot accurately calibrate your monitor by eye or by Adobe Gamma. Also make sure you're using Adobe RGB (1998) as your color profile in Photoshop.