Which brand has the dimmest LED backlight monitor?

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Hi all, I know LED monitors are known for their bright pictures, and some people love them, but i HATE overly bright screens. I have recently purchased an Acer 21.5" LED backlight LCD, and man this thing's brightness is way off the scale. I put the brightness at 0, and it still hurts my eyes. I have to go into the graphics card settings to adjust that brightness down, and even after i did that, it's still too bright. My eyes gets tired very soon, and reading website pages or anything with a white background become a chore. (I have a floater in my eye, it gets really annoying when i'm looking at bright white)

I want to know which brand out there (if there are any) that have the dimmest LED backlight. My previous monitor was 19" a HP LCD, non LED, and with brightness at 5, it was perfect. The only reason why i went with LEDs is they virtually produce no heat, and their power draw is minimal, and not to mention the traditional CCFL LCDs are becoming less and less common in the 1080p monitors..and they actually costs more than LED ones in some cases.

I'm pretty sure there are some LED monitors that lets you adjust the brightness way down, this Acer simply isn't letting me turning it down enough...worse case scenario..I guess i have to pay more for an old CCFL LCD...

thanks in advance.

Message edited by im1knight on 01-26-2012 at 05:28:55 AM

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Why not just get a monitor with an adjustable backlight? With many of them the back adjusts with the brightness control, with others it's separate.

I've never seen one that doesn't let you turn it down(but I've never had an acer).

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MagicPants wrote :

mine did allow me to turn it down, I'm saying even with the brightness at 0, it's still way too bright. I'm looking for one that can make me turn it down further. Sadly most monitors don't list the minimum brightness in their spec sheet...

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Ah, yes that's an issue. I was think about writing in open letter to monitor manufacturers about what people would really like to have in the spec sheet. Things like, does the panel have a glossy or matte finish, input lag, etc...

They are a lot of cases where there's a sweet spot (not too high, and not too low.) Those tend not to make it onto the spec sheet.

The only thing I can thing of to add is that CCFL's often hum when you turn down their backlight so you might want to look for a dim LED.

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im1knight wrote :

Also u can fine tune your screen using the video driver utility.

That will give u more choices.

Generally, if u buy cheapest monitor, u will not get the range for fine tuning.

Best way is the upper middle price range.

All the monitors have brightness/contrast feature. It just might not be listed : )

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It looks like that on my PC (I have ATI/AMD GPU).

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It is also build in the Win7

Type Calibrate your display in the Start search box and it will bring the option to Calibrate your display to very fine tune up!

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Whenever you have the choice, it's far better to dim the back light then it is to adjust the brightness.

When you adjust the brightness digitally you are using some of it's bit depth. If you digitally adjust an 8-bit monitor to 50% brightness, it is now a 7-bit monitor. If you do that on a TN panel you're down to 5 bits. This holds true for almost any adjustment you make to a monitor, put it to far from neutral and you lose bit depth.

Newer monitors that use 12 bit internal processing and that can display 10 bits of information aren't really affected by this in a noticeable way.

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I use a GTX 560Ti, and i did try the nvidia control already, however lowing the brightness that way resulted in heavy image quality loss, so now i put it back to the default 50%

I just tried the calibrate display thing, never knew it existed xD. My brightness according to the calibration is actually at the right amount with brightness all the way at zero(however i got better results from my old CCFL LCD with a dimmer screen), while my gamma was way too high. Now i adjusted it, and it appears warmer now. But my eyes still hurt when I'm looking at a white background.

When i was using my CCFL LCD, i had the brightness at 0 and contrast 50, and it was very comfortable to my eyes, now with this LED, brightness of 0 equals to about ~75 on my old CCFL LCD..so its not surprising my eyes hate it. Or maybe I was just setting my brightness too low before. I'll give my eyes a week to get used to it, if the light still hurts my eyes after a week, i'm returning this to newegg....

This 21.5" monitor I got on sale, it was originally $169. Got it for $119. So I guess it is a bit on the low cost end. Been using HP and Dell monitors before, and they served me well, but their LED monitors are just too expensive i think.

I thought the difference between cheap and expensive LED monitors are just the cheap ones tend to flicker when the brightness is low? Are you sure the more expensive ones will allow me to turn down the backlight further?

Message edited by im1knight on 01-27-2012 at 04:36:13 AM

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