as1410 screen issue

Hi,

I have the aspire 1410, an amazing notebook. but I have noticed that the screen is a bit weird.
looking at it closely you can see subtle black grid around the pixels. especially if you are looking at a solid colored area. is this normal or does the screen have a problem?
I have included a couple of images just to give you an idea about the situation although it is a bit exadurated by the camera






Thank you

 

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It's called "Screen Door Effect" and it is present on ALL the backlit LED screens I have seen. Most people don't seem to notice it but I do -- especially on high brightness levels. I even checked a late model Sony Vaio thinking that their legendary displays would be different -- but the Vaio had the screen door effect too.

I investigated this and found that it's just a drawback of the low-power backlit LED screens -- all of them. One poster said it had to do with a certain resolution (1366x768), but no, resolution doesn't matter. I have the same effect on my Asus U81 laptop and my Acer Aspire One netbook.

Older laptop screens weren't backlit LED, they were LCDs and required a lot more power but you didn't have the screen door.

Sorry, but it seems there's nothing we can do about it unless you hook up an external monitor.

 

Hmm, I have never noticed this on my Vaio TZ with its LED backlit display.

I'll have to check it again but funny if I'd only notice it now after owning it for 23 months after reading this thread.

 

Thank you all for replying ... very insightful comments

 

I had that issue with one of my other laptops (not Acer). Horrible screen door effect. I promptly exchanged it and got one much better. I don't know how bad it is, but I don't notice it either and I tend to notice these things. Don't know if it's bad or if you just notice it more than others.

 

Maybe the Sony TZ doesn't have it. It that's true, it will be the first backlit LED I've seen that doesn't. Or maybe it's just really faint on that screen. Sony laptops are known for their high quality displays... at least they were always the best I'd ever seen.

You won't see it unless you have very good vision. Get real close to the screen and it looks like you're looking through a wire mesh screen, like a screen door. It's very faint, almost like a shadow of a screen door -- but once you see it, you'll always be seeing it.

I'd rather have the old LCD screen even though they take more power.

Someone said that this is most noticeable on screens made by Samsung. A lot of brands (most of them) use Samsung displays on their consumer laptops. Also, it seems to be more noticeable at certain resolutions. But that may just be me.