The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful: 17" LCDs Reviewed
Color Rendering
The Q17+'s color rendering had good and bad points:
The darkest shades were difficult to render - only 65% of colors were perfectly rendered and nearly 8% showed a DeltaE > 2, which is not as good as the Samsung 710T's performance.
White spot | Black spot | Contrast |
---|---|---|
215 | 0.62 | 346:1 |
Calibration was performed at a luminance of 215 cd/m², which is a little higher than we might have hoped. The value of the black was too high: 0.62 cd/m². You can't really call that black. The monitor lacks depth.
Fortunately, the contrast was very stable:
This means that the brightness can be decreased to obtain a better black, though that's a workaround.
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