R2 and R1 owners, if you LCD has a blue tint please chime in

I am debating whether to send my R2 back. My main complaint is the horrible screen. It has such a blue tint. If you had the AUO panel and had a blue tint, please share you settings in the Intel control panel as setting up an ICC profile will not stick when launching a game.

 

Mine definitely came a bit blue, but blue doesn't really bother me. It kind of reminds me of led vs. halogen headlights--looking at either one alone, you'd call it white, but compared to each other, the led looks blueish and the halogen looks yellow. The blueish tint of the led headlights make it look like a pure white to me, and that's how I saw the screen the first time. It took reading about the issue for me to realize how blue it was.

The only things I changed in the Intel Control Panel were (1) under Diplay/Color Enhancement, I dropped the blue color to -5 Brightness, and (2) under Media/Color Enhancement, I upped saturation to 1.79.

 

The vast majority of all consumer LCD panels, including today's TVs have a blue cast to them. They're color temperature is typically 7k or higher. The reason they come this way from the factory, the reason they always have, is that sitting on display next to other products consumers who don't know any better will gravitate to the brightest thing there. It's the same phenomenon that the recording industry went through during the heyday of FM. In order to get noticed albums were being mastered with higher levels, with more bass, etc so that it would "stand out", usually at the expense of fidelity/quality.

There is nothing wrong with your LCD. The next one you get will be exactly the same. Trust me on this. I've been calibrating monitors and working in a color managed environment for the past 13 years.

 

I just can't stand the blue tint. Example the MBP 13inch does not have issue.

 

You can always have a bit of a fiddle with the built in Color Calibration.
It has a setting where you can adjust red, green and blue color balance.
Found in:

Control Panel -> Appearance and Personalization -> Display -> Calibrate color.

 

I'd be interested in whether or not the the settings obtained by the Win7 calibration wizard suffers from the same persistence/reset issue. My guess is that it would. Can't hurt to try it out and it's certainly a better means of adjustment than eyeballing with the Intel color enhancement settings. Keep in mind that it won't be anywhere near as accurate as a calibration done with a colorimeter. It will be a marked improvement over nothing at all.

 

They do =( at least in my case. Unless your ICC file is some how still active.

 

Unfortunately until Microsoft decides to fix the gamma LUT bug in their color management system that's the way it's going to be. This has been around since Vista was in beta.

 

Which tells me its never going to be fixed.

 

MBP also costs a lot more than m11x.

 

What are talking about. Its 999$ at micro center. About what I payed for my R2.