Dell Ultrasharp Screen brightness question?

I was wondering.

I have a Dell Ultrasharp 1707FP. It is connected via DVI. I was looking at the on screen options, and i can only adjust the brightness.

My whites looked kinda yellow, and the whole screen did not really look that bright. but it still looked good, as i was very happy with it.

So i adjusted the brightness from 75 to 90, and it looks alot better, as now the whites are white and colors are also bright yet the dark colors are still dark.

But... Will this shorten the life of the screen? Will it go duller over time, and will soon go back to that slight yellow-ish white? even at 90 brightness?

or was it not correct this whole time, and running the monitor at 90 to 100 brightness is fine and does not affect the life of the monitor?

What is the correct settings for this? As i can only adjust the Brightness and the color. Anyone else have this monitor? What do you have your settings at?
thanks.

 

A higher brightness will in general reduce the life of the bulb but its not something you should worry about.

The life span is unknown it may last a very very long time even at 100% so its not worth sacrificing the image quality just to try to extend that unknown life factor.

Most screens are OMG over bright in my experience, the U2410 monitors I just got come stock @ 50/100 brightness and they burn the retina into the back of my head lol. If not for the really hard color matching issues I have had between the 3 monitors and the fact I am going for color accuracy for photo work I would tune them down some.

 

I agree with Vicious except for the statement quoted above. I'd personally need all the nitts a screen can possibly give due the to the insane amount of ambient light in my working/studying environment.

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