I just purchased three Dell S2415H monitors from my local Best Buy and was impressed with the colors and the small bezel until I opened a dark image and discovered that anything remotely dark (a significant portion of the movie "John Wick" for example) gave a silver sheen over almost the entire screen and colors that were vibrant on my HP2511x (TN) were hard to see on the Dell S2415H. I fiddled with the screen settings for over an hour and found no improvements through adjusting brightness, contrast, dynamic contrast, saturation, color preset modes nor input color formats fixed the issue. All three monitors also suffer from pretty bad IPS glow so depending on my viewing angle blacks looks great on one side while being a very bright shade of grey on the other... and each monitor has one dead pixel (which I'm sure isn't the fault of the monitors, just bad luck.) I tried using HDMI, HDMI with a DVI adapter and VGA. I am using a AMD GPU and was sure to switch between color modes (Full RGB.)
To clarify this is not just a black level issue... even red ties in dark scenes are vibrant on my TN while looking silvery and dull on this IPS. It's like I'm constantly getting screen glare even though I'm in a pitch black room.
After reading great reviews this ended up being the worst purchase I've ever made.The color shift on my TN panel annoys me but the IPS glow is even worse... I just want some Eyefinity goodness! :-(
Any suggestions would be appreciated... have I overlooked some prerequisite voodoo ritual to get these things looking decent? Am I better off giving up on cheaper IPS panels and going with a TN like my HP 2511x (but with VESA mounts)?
To clarify this is not just a black level issue... even red ties in dark scenes are vibrant on my TN while looking silvery and dull on this IPS. It's like I'm constantly getting screen glare even though I'm in a pitch black room.
After reading great reviews this ended up being the worst purchase I've ever made.The color shift on my TN panel annoys me but the IPS glow is even worse... I just want some Eyefinity goodness! :-(
Any suggestions would be appreciated... have I overlooked some prerequisite voodoo ritual to get these things looking decent? Am I better off giving up on cheaper IPS panels and going with a TN like my HP 2511x (but with VESA mounts)?
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