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| 20-01-08 / 00:28 : Samsung SyncMaster 206BW / G4 MDD (cjed) |
| Here is a short feedback about the G4 MDD switching from a 17" IIYAMA CRT Vision Master Pro 410 (recent flashs 8 years of good condition - an internal wire in the tube must have suffer from hot, it is a known failure and can be fixed but...) to a Samsung SyncMaster 206 BW (20" wide) LCD : Problem with the DVI wire (Belkin) because its plug is too much tall, in fact the screen foot (just below the video inputs) doesn't provide the space needed for the DVI plug. So the wire is connected with only one screw. FIXED Problem with a fault power wire. It couldn't be put correctly inside the screen power slot (then there was electric noise and the screen shutted down time to time when touching the wire). I replaced it with the IIYAMA power wire and it could be set well. Very strange that the Samsung wire had a fault Colors calibration was very difficult, near impossible (the best settings are internet mode with light to 75, contrast to 50, gamma 1, normal, SyncMaster 206BW profile found on OSX Monitors control panel). ACCEPTABLE The VGA connection doesn't work with the G4 (input not detected, the source search remains). The native resolution is however not available in VGA from the Radeon 9000 Pro. In DVI the native resolution was found, and other resolutions were provided in the OSX monitors panel, some with both stretching mode on and off (640*480, 800*600 et 1024*768 are then listed in two modes). However, whatever the mode (stretching on or off) the stretching occurs ! (then with poor image and bad ratio with 4/3 resolutions selected). There is no black surrounding areas. Then it is impossible to play games (or you have to buy a new mac with great graphic ard, and recent PC games that manage 1680*1050). FIXED Besides bad color calibration compared with a CRT we can also notice that texts aren't easily readable, even with the OSX LCD font smoothing setting). It seems less bad on Leopard though. Movies playback with DVDPlayer is was deceiving, a strong noise in the picture, and very bad black areas (some bad patterns in it). At 2m distance it can be accepatble, and it depends from the DVD (not so bad with a Starwars movie). The good point is the screen display speed (no strong shadows, only light ones on windows tools icons when moving windows very fast). At 237 euros (plus 40 euros for the DVI wire) it is still two times cheaper than an equivalent Apple screen. However the latter could probably be better in color management, and assurely would allow to have black areas instead of stretching mode only. MVA LCDs (less fast than the TN found on Samsung) provide less noise in movies, and a better field of view, and 4/3 screens (Bélinea, etc.) could be better on the G4 MDD. Well, we can use the Samsung, but time has to pass to forget how good it was on the IIYAMA CRT. Finally I checked in the screen service hidden panel, and it is the worse screen origine (serial xIx-xxxx, CPT, so worse than CMO C screen - xDx-xxxx, being worse than A - xLx-xxxx and S - xAx-xxxx, the S being the factory good calibrated LCDs, A being good after manual calibration, and C couldn't be calibrated). The origine was Romania, perhaps there is only C screens now, as prices were down a bit. Would be better if we could pay much for real quality products. |
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C'est plus qu'un petit rapport! Tu devrais mettre un commentaire sur le site de la FNAC, les notes sont y proches de 10. Soit tu es mal tombé (et dans ce cas tu peux peut-être échanger) soit tu as un niveau d'exigence super élévé par rapport aux autres ;) Je ne sais pas comment vérifier la dalle de mon BenQ, j'en suis en tout cas très satisfait au niveau des couleurs (pas difficile après une journée sur le portable Dell aux couleurs horribles), bien meilleures que mon précédent 15" et en mode DVD aussi. Je joue assez rarement avec mais là le problème d'étirement doit être le même. |
Finally the streteched problem was fixed thanks to DisplayConfigX (see the following news). It also created a new ColorSync profile that, once decreasing brightness and contrast to 50 in the LCD settings, allowed to be close to a CRT color profile. |
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