dell 2408WFP, anything else more "natural"?

Y'know you could just turn down the brightness on the monitor with the monitor's buttons or using CCC/Nvidia Monitor.

and disable dynamic contrast or smthng

Well, what are you using your monitor for? Office work? Gaming (it seems no)? Color work?

Different strokes for different...uses.

thanks,

yep i've been playing with all nvidia and monitor settings, colors, bright and contrast (cannot find the dynamic contrast though..), but no luck ... however reading other forums speaking about the same problem with this bright monitor I've found a configuration that seems suit much better my eyes:

R: 87
G: 89
B: 94
Bright: 20
Contrast: 40

actually i've set the bright even lower, at 5, ...anyway will keep looking other monitors with "softer" colors and less bright.

thanks guys

yes, your absolutely right and I've been quite naive just cheking some reviews like cnet or similar that rated this monitor as one of the best 24-inch in the market at the moment.

it's basically for work, need run several programs at the same time and a multy display configuration, very important be able to read and write several hours per day without hurt my eyes; im pleased with my new dell xps but as you know struggling with the monitor chosen.

cheers

have you considered buying a glare filter for it? that might help.

BenQ FP241W

it's incredible and i'll leave it at that

thanks, will definitively consider this BenQ if cannot find solution for my dell, might try to know a bit more about the glare filter as well.

cheers

So I take it you don't care about good reactivity, you don't care all that much about photorealistic colors, you want acceptable brightness, and hopefully a little of everything else + great cost...

I would suggest reading through AnandTech forum's excellent LCD thread. It has a summary of what to look for and a bunch of options. Funny enough, your panel is one of the recommendations. It's tough to get away from high brightness nowadays; manufacturers try to advertise the highest contrast ratio possible, and often do it by elevating brightness.

One other thing, if you had access to proper tools and software (my guess is you do not), you could try to calibrate your monitor for a specific white point. That will bring the brightness done. However, if you don't have the tools, it's a substantial investment.

The BenQ FP241W has been discontinued, although they are available for purchase directly from BenQ from time to time.

Did you adjust the color temerature?

If you cant get it fixed I will trade you straight accross for my 15" CRT, youll love it, its hella dim.

I've got several monitors that I'd trade in a heartbeat  

for the dynamic contrast, I found this screenshot
http://www.anandtech.com/GalleryImage.aspx?id=2059

lol looks like you haven't spend enough time with the OSD settings, that isn't so hard to find...

yes well, im pretty mug in this kind of things, it was set on OFF already, however setting it ON it reduced a lot the annoying bright, I guess i can find now the optimal configuration playing a bit more with all this settings, .... it seems i was giving up too early  

thanks!

newegg carries the BenQ T241W which has the same AU Optronics LCD panel.

That's is wrong.

The BenQ FP241W used an 8-bit P-MVA panel made by AUO.

The BenQ T241W is clearly using an inferior 6-bit TN panel made by AUO. Both price and specs points to this monitor using a TN panel.

oh, so it's the other way around.
well close enough I guess.  

yes, the dynamic contrast ON looked like reducing the contrast and the feeling was good initially but it keep changing configuration opening pages with different colors and light, so i've turned it off again, im back to the configuration i've found in another forum that work pretty well even though still not ideal.
I might even buy the spyder3pro to calibrate better the color in the near future, but it's not so urgent anymore, at least now the monitor doesnt hurt my eyes.

cheers

hi,

problem fixed, bought spyder3pro which perfectly calibrated the colors, not it's perfect.

cheers

hi again,

nada, after some days of use I'm affraid I'm still not satisfied with this monitor  
it improved a lot after be calibrated with spyder3pro, it's probably brilliant to play but not to work, the red colour keep saturated, which is not a big deal to me actually, but black text over gray background for instance, looks not clear at all, like shining.
Tried any calibration possible, i've seen similar problems in other forums, even after calibrate, time to give up.

Looking for a good 24" panel to work now, more natural colours less bright and clear text over any background; possibly no more than £600 but can stretch to have the ideal monitor and work in confort. Will start reading reviews about the BenQFP241W


cheers
fab

Hi, can I ask how you calibrated your display? ie. What white point did you choose? What was your target gamma?

Also what OS are you running? I find text (and graphics) much clearer on OS X and Vista in comparison to XP.

Have you tried just wearing some sunnies? lol

Ill trade your dell for a Oki 22" i bought   it is dim enough to work for hours. Even comes with warranty !!!

That's probably because OSX and Vista use text-smoothing while XP does not by default (though you can enable it in XP if you want).

hi

yes, with spyder3Pro, 6500k white point and 2.2 Gamma, on Vista

the bright now is fine, but the text on gray backgrounds or bue shines; I'm ok with the monitor right now but it's no ideal for me. I might buy another one to use as main monitor, but this time it will be TN panel which should have a sharper text, benqV2400w for instance can be a good option. Not keen to trade with any Oki22 thx  

cheers

Another link that might help you calibrate your lcd properly: calibrate your Dell 2408WFP lcd monitor. Hope it helps.