I know, first thing is going to game mode. Fine but earlier today I was shown this site: http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/ and I have been trying fruitlessly to complete these tests for the “correct” colors has anyone done this and just knows which settings to put in?
Well… I can say that people don’t exactly grab the “EVO” monitor for accurate color reproduction. I wouldn’t worry about it too much unless it seems to be so off that it’s broken, in which case it’s probably a bad monitor.
From my understanding, unless you have broadcast industry grade equipment/tools You not going to get to TRUE color match via manual adjustment.
For most digital displays, the default color options are about as true as that display gets as they are pre-calibrated in the factory.
FunkyP
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The VH236 has some of the worst color reproduction out there, just set it to standard and don’t worry about it.
Standard looks pretty good but don’t you need game mode to cut down on lag?
With all modern Consumer Grade flat screen digital displays, each model or each screen is calibrated at the factory, and the default or standard setting is the closest you going to get.
You need a industry grade screen for great color reproduction from a digital display and the necessary equipment for calibration. The hand calibration of R,G and B on a older arcade CRT screen can only go so far.
As my prospective as a amateur photographer (what separates Pros from Amateurs is do they get paid for their work) is THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS TRUE COLOR REPRODUCTION, you can only manage brighter more vibrant colors, which can make a image look more artificial or dimmer grayer colors which can look washed out. Also the kind of lighting effects color reproduction. In Photography, incandescent, phosphorescent and natural sunlight each change how a particular color is shown. Incandescent (classic light bulbs) tend to make everything have a orange warm cast, phosphorescent makes everything bluish, natural sunlight has a slight yellow tint that is hard to notice by the human eye, as there rarely a true WHITE in photography. Hence why there White Balance to account for the Light’s “temperature” in digital cameras.
How this applies to TVs and Monitors? Actually ALOT. Older LCD screens used a cold cathode tube for the backlight, some rare models used phosphorescent light, newer models used LEDs, all give the image a slight blueish cast. Plasma TVs which it’s backlight works on the same principals as Neon signs give a warmer almost reddish Light. While CRT screens, while based on phosphorescent give a wide range of light, including light outside the visible spectrum, CRT is the only screen technology that does true black, as that parts/pixels of the screen is actually turned off. its the reverse of LCD, where white pixels are off pixels and the Black pixles have too much light shining through.
Color reproduction quality goes like this when it comes to screens CRT> Plasma > LED type LCD screens > LCD with Cold Cathode > LCD with phosphorescent.
To be honest, the industry should just give up offering, color, tint, contrast and other picture settings on modern displays, as all that fiddling is a joke, an illusion created by cleaver marketing to give the illusion of control.
Conventional wisdom is game mode on the evo monitor is just color presets. I don’t believe it eliminates any post-processing.
Perhaps other users can confirm or deny.
^ IIRC, some options on the VH236 are disabled in certain profiles, but I can’t remember which, and I doubt any of them have an impact on display lag. (While we’re talking about it, though, can anybody clue me in as to what “Override” actually does?)
Anyway, the default contrast level on the VH236 with all of the individual R/G/B values maxed out is pretty close to the ideal settings. I ran those calibration slides in the OP for the heck of it when I first got it and 45 contrast seems to give the best range on Game mode. It doesn’t make that much of a difference in general, but if you set the contrast on the VH236 way too low or way too high then you’re going to get some extra white/black crush.
It’s funny I was looking over your review and found that link and it prompted me to wonder if people had the numbers set already for this thing.
