Help with IPS calibration

Hi can someone please help me with my aw14. I need to calibrate the screen because I'm seeing banding on grey backgrounds. Please help me, thanks!

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Calibration is not going to solve that particular problem. In fact adjustments made by hardware or software calibration often exaggerate banding in gradients.

The new 14 ships with either an AUO113D or LGD03EA panel. Mine has the later and shows some slight banding when calibrated and when not. I was planning on making my ICC profile available, but the LG panel in my unit is so very close to 65k/2.2 already that I haven't done so yet.

Which panel do you have?

 

I'll check when I get home. Which one is better?

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I have no idea which is better. Until I checked today I assumed I had the AUO113D. Google doesn't return anything on the LGD03EA, which begs the question, "if Google does know about it does it even exist?". Perhaps the 14 is the fist laptop to use it..

notebookcheck's review mentions that their demo 14 had the AUO panel Review Alienware 14 Notebook - NotebookCheck.net Reviews and that one of its shortcomings was a somewhat weak brightness in the 240cd/m2 range. My LG panel measures over 300cd/m2 and I daresay is way too bright at 100% when in normal indoor lighting. Outside in full summer sun it's fairly easy to read.

And like I said earlier mine is so close to being dialed in for 65k/2.2 out of the box that it's almost not really worth calibrating unless you're a color nazi like me. I'll be doing more tests this weekend to see how it does with gamut.

If anyone in Dallas/Ft. Worth area has 14 with the AUO panel I'd love to see how they compare side-by-side calibrated and not.

 

Hi, so I checked my device manager and I also have the LGD03EA. Can you please tell me how I can check for the brightness? Sorry I'm new to having a laptop. Also, I want to point out that my original system (DOA) had no banding, however the white was more yellowish. I wasn't able to check the monitor model though i assumed they were all the same.

 

You would need a colorimeter in order to measure brightness [and calibrate a display properly].

Could you take a photo of the banding you're seeing? Photographing monitors is sometimes iffy at best, so take a few under good lighting conditions and post the best one that illustrates what you're seeing.

Like with most things, Dell sources parts for their systems from wherever is cheapest and meets minimum specs. They do this for everything from their cheap consumer product all the way on up through their enterprise server lines as a means of keeping costs low. Others have reported panels on the 14 with a yellow color cast to them. Should be interesting to see whether or not its one OEM or the other. My LG leaned imperceptibly toward a warmer (yellow) color temperature - it measured at 64k. Most people would never notice that though..

 

Sorry which software would you recommend me use to test?

 

Where you see banding, desktop background or photoshop kind of stuff.

 

I use Windows 8 with gray layout and see some on metro page. Also, here on this test I can see banding vertical banding lines when max brightness.

Gradient (banding) - Lagom LCD test

 

The LG panel has better brightness than the AUO panle, which earlier has been reviewed as "dim".

 

I am interested in calibration results on the LG D03EA 1080p panel as I have one in my Latitude E7440.

(going to driver properties I see for "Children" the value DISPLAY\LGD03EA\4&24270d2a&0&UID68092928 )