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    1749 RGBLCD screen color calibration

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by brlowe, Jul 30, 2010.

  1. brlowe

    brlowe Notebook Geek

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    I have a spyder 3 elite that I am going to try and calibrate the monitor on my new 1749. I have the 1920x1080 RGBLCD display with the ATI 5650 graphics chip. What is the correct way to adjust this monitor? On my desktop monitors I can adjust the reb blue and green on the monitor. I cannot find anything like that for the display. I see in the ATI control panel where I can adjust those but I do not know if they will work right for this.
    As anybody done this with a setup lile mine?

    Thanks
    Brandon
     
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  2. anodize

    anodize Notebook Deity

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    It is wled, not rgb, not lcd. You can calibrate it via windows 7 color management. Control panel -> Color management -> Advanced -> Calibrate.
    You can also rent or buy a calibrator such as spyder 3, pantone, and etc, however, note that none of these can neutralize the heavily oversaturated colors. I've tried already. Getting this monitor to show natural colors is impossible.
     
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  3. brlowe

    brlowe Notebook Geek

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    Then how come on my order it says 17.3 FHD TL RGBLCD? From what I read it has 92% color range. I already own a spyder 3 studio sr so I do not need to rent it.
     
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    That's just dell's description. Go and run PC Wizard 2010 -> Video -> Monitor type and list the information here. I assume you have the AUO149D. Let me know.
     
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    ok so I have the AUO149d screen. How do I best adjust the colors?
     
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    Run the windows calibration tool as I mentioned earlier. Run your spyder 3 instead if you have that with you. It'll improve the screen a bit. I tried everything I could possibly think of and my colors are still unnatural and heavily saturated.
     
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    It's not WLED, it's B+RG LED and it is an LCD screen... ;)

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  8. anodize

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    Yes, it is LCD, technically. I was referring LCD as in CCFL. There is no such thing as B+RG(this is not RGB LED). It is WLED and made by AUO.
     
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    Well, maybe B+RG LED is a Dell marketing term only (I don't know of any reliable statement on what the "R+BG LED" -labeled displays really are).

    However the big point was that LCD is the aperture method and LED or CCFL is the light source. Any transmissive (LCD) display of this kind always have an LC (Liquid Crystal) aperture matrix and a light source (typically LED or CCFL) behind that. Thus the display is most definitely LCD, and the method of backlighting does not affect that.

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    Yes.. I know that already. I was simply using the term to describe CCFL since most ppl here refer LED lcd as "wled" or "rgb led."

    B+RG = AUO149D = AUO WLED 90% CG AUO B173HW1 . I hope this helps for you to understand that B+RG = NOT RGB LED, but WLED.
     
    anodize, Aug 1, 2010
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