Recent content by antdude

Use scaling in the driver/monitor options if possible. Of course, DVI is needed for this. I am using VGA and I can't do that until I switch to DVI. :(

Please reread my post. It works after installing and rebooting (required). Then, it stops working if I were to shut down my machine and monitor and power them back on.

Recently, I decided to install MagicTune Premium (from Samsung's Web site for the latest version) so I don't have to fiddle with the annoying bottom monitor controls (keep pressing the wrong ones -- bad usability design). I seem to get this "This computer system does not support MagicTune..."...

Dithering won't affect the richness or contrast of colors. The issue you are referring to is the bleed through effect of LCD monitors. They are unable to completely block all of the light to produce a true black (though some can get closer). In addition, as you move from side to side, the...

Viewing angle could be any of the 360 degree directions. I suspect each panel type has their own quirks as to which directions are worse than others. That brighter than the top sounds like what I've heard about TN panels. Dithering is one method that is used to simulate more colors; I'm...

I had no problems with 60hz on my 931BF monitor. I also can't stand anything under 70hz with CRT monitors. :( I did try 75hz for the LCD monitor. It moves my screen, but I don't see anything else different. 60hz should be fine for LCD monitors.

I checked out a couple 1080p movie trailers from Apple.com's QuickTime site. They don't have pixellated/blocky parts. However, I did notice color gradiants not being smooth that reminded me of 16-bit colors vs. 32-bit colors. So, I guess I can see the difference between 16.2 and 16.7 million colors.

1. Panel type: TN - worst viewing angle; MVA & PVA - somewhat better; IPS, AS-IPS - best; ASV - supposedly better than even IPS, though not sure (ASV is very, very rare). What is really bad is that this spec is not listed for many monitors although it is perhaps one of the most important specs...

Pretty much everything is misleading in terms of being useless or being an outright lie. Response time: Nearly always a lie (lower than in real life). The only places that have actually tested real response times are xbitlabs.com and tomshardware.com (though the latter is less accurate). So...

The boxes say 4ms and 2ms, but it is just an outright lie. The fastest monitor that I am aware of (the VX922) is listed as 2ms, but has a real response time of 8-10ms!Uhh, I think you misquoted the wrong post. :) Or is the speed related to my MPEG-2 video problem? I removed the wrong part of...

No worries. :)

The boxes say 4ms and 2ms, but it is just an outright lie. The fastest monitor that I am aware of (the VX922) is listed as 2ms, but has a real response time of 8-10ms!Uhh, I think you misquoted the wrong post. :) Or is the speed related to my MPEG-2 video problem?

My 931BF didn't come with it. The manuals didn't say the monitor comes with a DVI cable (sold separately).

2000:1 is dynamic. Actual one is 700:1. 2000 is just a trick to make people buy it. I found this out for my 931BF monitor yesterday. :)

It sounds like compression, though I can't say for sure... and yes it is normal for computer users to notice the compression, but may not be for non-computer users. For example, I saw someone watching satellite TV on a regular TV screen and the compression artifacts on it were atrocious. BTW...