LCD monitor

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 29 Jul 2017 12:28:12 +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
>Check your drivers, the selected refresh rate, and the resolution.

Hi

the driver is "intel", I guess there's no alternate driver available.
The selected refresh rate is the recommended, highest refresh rate. I
guess the flickering isn't caused by the refresh rate, but by the
backlight and/or because the pixel are noticeable. The noticable pixel
cause a screen tone effect, without moiré pattern, but anyway it makes
the image noisy. I chose the recommended default resolution, other
resolutions are much more bad.

>If none of those help, send it back. You don't need the eye-strain.

For daylight usage the side effects aren't that bad, the LCD has a few
advantages, when using it by daylight, but at night it's unbearable.

Another advantage compared to the CRT is the height adjustability.

In the meantime I noticed two other pitfalls. The LCD doesn't provide
profiles and it's easy to reset the custom settings by accident to the
factory settings.

After screen blanking the LCD monitor doesn't wake up when moving the
mouse, since it automatically turns off. I need to push the power
button. This button is a frog clicker alike button, so it unlikely will
last very long.

I've got floorboards, so if I tap my toes when making music, the LCD
might start seriously moving. At the moment it is not on the table
where it should stand, so I don't know by now, if this is an issue.

On Sat, 29 Jul 2017 03:47:36 +0200, Xen wrote:
>That's probably because you are used to a convex screen though.

I don't think so. It seems to be really concave. A test pattern shows
that there aren't cushion effects or similar issues. If I take a look at
other flats, they don't appeal concave to me, it's just the LCD.

Btw. I can't stand LED ambient light or other energy saving lamps with
spikes and gaps for the light spectrum.

I still use small heating devices, "German satirical marketing term for
»light bulb« branded as »Heatball«".

It's not the warmth, red shift, it's that there aren't gaps
(no completely missing colours) for the light spectrum, when using a
tungsten filament. You could make LED and other energy saving lamp
light as red as you want, it's still remains cold.

I wonder if this is an issue for at least cheap LCD monitors, too.

Regards,
Ralf