Problem With LCD Flat Screen Monitor

[RSLancastr]

I recently purchased a new computer, and with it, a Sharp LL-172C-B monitor.

I'm not particularly happy with the monitor, and I don't know if the problem is specific to this model, or is true of LCD Flatscreen monitors in general.

The problem seems to be with the brightness/contrast.

Part of it is that your eyes have to be smack-dead-center to the screen, or things get sort of "washed out". But even there, the contrast just isn't right, somehow.

When I first got the computer up and running, I noticed it when certain wallpaper images were used.

For example, one image that comes with XP is of the Taj Mahal. The Taj is white, against a blue sky. But with the monitor's default settings, the sky was nearly as white as the Taj. If you moved so that you were dead center, it was better, but not great.

If you tweak the contrast/brightness/warmth so that the sky is bluer, then other images can look too dark.

Any thoughts? Should I just return this puppy?

 

[wahrheit]

If the image get's washed out simply by moving slightly off-center, it's a bad screen.

On a good screen, you should be able to differenciate all 21 different shades of gray on the following chart by adjusting the screen's brightness and contrast (from 100% white down to 0% white, in 5% steps):

 

[Doomdude]

Just a thought but are you using the native resolution of the monitor.
eg. my sons 15in lcd monitor has a resolution of 1024x768
if you use any resolution other than the native one then picture quality may suffer. Just a shot in the dark

 

[a_unique_person]

According to http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?description=24-007-039&DEPA=0, the native resolution is 1280 x 1024, and with LCD screens, you have to stick to that pretty much.

 

[RSLancastr]

On a good screen, you should be able to differenciate all 21 different shades of gray on the following chart by adjusting the screen's brightness and contrast (from 100% white down to 0% white, in 5% steps):

I can see all of those shades just fine.

Maybe brightness/contrast isn't quite the description of the problem...

Doomdude & AUP:

The phenomenon I am poorly describing happens at the "native" resolution too.

Tomorrow I will find out if there are any flatscreen LCD monitors being used at work, and see if they have the same issue.

Thanks.