SXPS 1640 RGBLED white balance

Anyone else with this laptop find that the screen has a very warm-reddish white balance, or is it just me? Compared to my MBP and other Dell laptops and screens, it has by far the most reddish whites.

I've tried the many ICM profiles posted here, and it definately made a difference. I'm now getting much more accurate colors, but the white balance itself remains quite reddish.

To make matters worse, the ATI CCC which, on my desktop computer, gives me White Temperature controls, those same controls are non-existant on the 1640 (same Catalyst 9.9 drivers).

 

Yeah they are quite warm but I've actually got used to them now. As you stated cedm posted an ICC in the RGBLED thread which has a cooler white balance but I found it reduced the brightness of the screen too much. I assume because it effectively lets less red light trough.

I think the default warmish whites are actually more representative of real life, and we are just used to overly cool screens. I couldn't go back to an inferior screen now, these RGBLED screens are just too good.

Interesting what you say about the white balance controls on your desktop though. I'll have a look into that.

 

Yes, in the same place where we can adjust Hue and Saturation in CCC, on the desktop I also have the option of adjusting Color Temperature, which I'd really like to have on the laptop, but to no avail. I don't know why that is. It's the same driver.

As for the ICC profile, I'm currently using one of the latest ones posted (spyder ver 2 I think). The colors are nice, but the white balance is still leaning towards red as much as all the other profiles I tried.

I agree though that the ideal color temperature for a calibrated screen should be around the 6500K mark, instead of the usual blueish-white @ 8000K+ we see on monitors normally. But the 6500K should look as if it were a soft yellowish white, not a reddish-white. I'm thinking that the RGBLED screen is plagued with a permanant red hue which we can't get rid of, unless we could change the White Balance (which I can't seem to be able to do using CCC).