My 7 year-old flatscreen monitor died suddenly yesterday. Kaput. So I went to my local computer store for a new one.
I live in a very small town with only one independent dealer. I wanted another 19" 4:5, but his stock was limited to widescreen HD’s.
Closest he had to 19" “square” was a Viewsonic VX2253mh-LED, a 22-inch “full HD widescreen LED backlight LCD.” I’ve used Viewsonic monitors exclusively for the past 18 years with no problems worth mentioning, so I didn’t hesitate to get this one.
(DEFENSIVE DISCLAIMER: The store is small, with no floor model monitors on display. Besides which, although all of my previous Viewsonics were purchased from superstores when I lived in a big city, I never floor-checked any of them. Maybe I was just lucky.)
So I plugged the new one in last night and was shocked. With default/AUTO IMAGE settings, the colors are terrible, with a strong yellow hue skewing all others. Yellows are much too intense, blues are purple, and so on.
I’ve futzed around with practically every possible combination of adjustments on the monitor, and although the results are different, none of them are any better than the defaults.
Updated my graphics drivers just to be sure- no difference. Also tried adjusting display colors using the drivers software; same results- different, but still terrible. (BTW, graphics card is a two-year old Nvidia GeForce 8600GT.)
Needless to say, the monitor that croaked yesterday looked nothing like this. In fact, I’ve never seen a monitor on any computer (even ultra-cheap ones) that looked like this one.
So here’s what I’m wondering.
I simply can’t imagine that these colors are a matter of preference, and I’m assuming this unit is defective. However, I don’t know how receptive my retailer is going to be. Small store, limited inventory and turnonver, small town.
Any experts care to comment?
Thanks in advance.
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