I have no such problems (things going black or brown). I only lose
contrast at greater viewing angle.
I scrunched down to be at the angle you describe and the green bars on
slashdot look more pale and lighter at the top, where the ones dead on
at the very bottom of the screen are dark green.
Also, in spite of many people telling me I wouldn't. I saw an big
improvement in text clarity when I went to all DVI cables instead of
converted VGA cables (I have had these LCDs since my last PC which
didn't have dual DVI output and ran Windows instead of Ubuntu).
I bring this up because when I got the LCDs I thought they were too
bright, so I had to manually turn them down. I have no idea how they are
now in comparison.
Mike
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 12:24 -0700, Gus Wirth wrote:
>
> The screen has a matte finish. No reflection problems. But things
> like
> green bars (the kind you see on Slashdot) turn black. I sit about two
> feet from the monitor and the bottom stripes look like their normal
> color compared to the CRT while the top stripes look black (well,
> more
> like a really dark brown kind of). I have the monitor rather high up
> so
> my direct line of sight is into the bottom third of the monitor.
> Doing
> the math shows that the viewing angle changes about 30 degrees from
> the
> bottom to the top of the screen when sitting at my normal position.
>
> Looking at a completely uniform blue background (setting the desktop
> background to a single color) actually looks like a gradient that is
> dark at the top and lighter at the bottom.
>
> I really want to go to a widescreen monitor that is at least as big
> as
> my current CRT, but this LCD display isn't it.
>
> Gus
>
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