I bought a budget 32 inches monitor a few days ago, a Samsung C32F391FWU. The picture quality is fine, for less that 200 bucks I can't complain. However, in order to get a decent picture quality I have to adjust constantly the settings, and it baffles me how cumbersome this is. There is a setting for playing games (game mode), a setting for watching movies (cinema mode), and another setting to do everything else, like reading my mail or using Word (for this I use eye saver mode). The button that controls all of this is located in the back of the monitor, which makes switching between modes specially inconvenient.
All of this is new for me. For many years I used almost exclusively the display of my laptop, which always looks good regardless of whether I'm playing games, watching movies or doing anything else. It has been an unpleasant surprise to find out that my new monitor requires me to constantly do all this setup just to have decent picture quality. Is this normal? Does it happen with all displays or are there external displays that look good automatically regardless of what you're doing, just like my laptop display?
If this is how all displays work I guess I'll have to get used to it, but if there are other displays that don't require all this constant maintenance, I will definitely return this one and get one of those.
All of this is new for me. For many years I used almost exclusively the display of my laptop, which always looks good regardless of whether I'm playing games, watching movies or doing anything else. It has been an unpleasant surprise to find out that my new monitor requires me to constantly do all this setup just to have decent picture quality. Is this normal? Does it happen with all displays or are there external displays that look good automatically regardless of what you're doing, just like my laptop display?
If this is how all displays work I guess I'll have to get used to it, but if there are other displays that don't require all this constant maintenance, I will definitely return this one and get one of those.