Well, the Dell tech just replaced my screen and....

It's the same exact thing. I'm just guessing the sparkle i'm seeing is normal.

 

What was the manufacture for the first and for the replacement panel. For example, if your first panel was an AUO, and they replaced it with the same thing, then yes, both may very well have sparkles/grain bad whites etc.. However, if he had swapped it out with a SEC panel, I guarantee you it would have looked different. In my experience and many others on this forum the SEC do not exhibit the same sparkle or whatever you may want to call as the AUO does. So please, if you can, look in the device manager and let us know what the Dell tech replaced it with.

 

How about that...forums send panic to the masses once again. You've never seen a LCD screen before this one?

 

Hi,

yes, that's also my opinion, sort of.

Now, as all the "grainy" discussion came up, I had a closer look to my LCD (1440x900 non-glossy) and it also has a little bit what people now are calling "grainy". But for a non-glossy screen, this seems fine. A glossy one shouldn't have it that much, but I wouldn't be freaked out by a little "grainyness".
I think it depends on the coating of the panel.

Greets

 

Believe me, there are some bad panels going out from dell these days. Its the luck of the draw. If Dell would have allowed me to swap out my original panel with the replacement, I would still own a 1420. There were huge differences. Even though the SEC had the worst viewing angles I have ever seen, I was still content since their was still a sweet spot. But if you are lucky enough to get one of the good ones.. then I guess you can think this is all made up.

 

I'm typing this on a 23" Apple cinema display, 1920x1200 res that
retails for $900 US . If I look hard and long enough I can find the so called "grainyness" , it's a friggin LCD screen. There may be some issues
with some but for the most part it's much ado about nothing.

 

On the AUO I owned, you could see the grainyness, sparkle/vasoline looking display from across the room. Yes it was that bad.. Don't suggest that every panel will be the same as your Apple cinema.. Dell is using 5 different vendors with all degrees of graininess from mild to extreme.

 

That's my point, even a high dollar monitor that costs as much as a Dell laptop will have some. It's the nature of the technology that is LCD. Now, I have recognized that there are cases that it is as bad as your laptop. But if someone is coming on the board and says it looks fine but then starts asking if he has grainyness then you have to wonder!

 

No, it's not "normal" for an LCD screen to be grainy. I've never seen a grainy E1505 screen, and my M1210 and 700M screens weren't grainy either. Good for you if it doesn't bother you, but don't act like the people that are bothered are overreacting.

Both my G1S and my 1520 have the graininess, and both have SEC screens.

 

My old screen was SEC. Haven't checked what the new screen is yet, but yeah, even if it's AUO, it looks EXACTLY the same. It's probably normal, and i'm just making a big deal about it. I don't know.

 

Yes, it is normal for the most part, especially in a buget laptop. And don't tell me how to act.

 

It is normal, LCD's are made of pixels

 

Do yourself a favor, go to your favorite electronics store and take a look at the laptops on display to see if they look similar. Pull up something with a white background if you can. If they don't look similar then Call Dell to replace it again.

 

How long did the dell guy take to replace the screen? I got one coming to change mine tomorrow due to an electrical buzzing whenever I move it.

 

About 15 minutes. It was scary when he had to like bend the plastic to get it off. But overall, no damages to anything.

 

I use a Dell 20" on my desktop that doesn't look grainy to me but took awhile to get used to the "Sparkle".

Just a coating they use.

 

luckily my wxga+ is perfect. I'm glad I waited it out.

 

Well the guy just came and went after replacing my screen. The old one I had was one of the little know "LLC" or whatever they were called which I thought was superb, the new one he has put in is an AUO2274.

Either I'm blind, or I cant see any problem with this AUO screen, it looks just as good as the old one to me! Not really sure what all this fuss about grainyness is tbh.

 

Agreed.

I have never seen a grainy desktop LCD, as far I know it's only present on high resolution laptop displays. From all the laptops I've seen thus far, the only high resolution 15.4/17 display that is NOT grainy is the Macbook Pro's display.

 

LPLCC00 was the ID of my old monitor, just double checked, this AUO one is definitely as good

 

I have to admit that I also got caught up in all the lcd backbleed mayhem, but after reconsidering it and careful inspection I have come to a conclusion that my LCD screen is fine and actually looks great! The ONLY thing that I am still annoyed by is the sound skipping issue.

 

Does it skip only when your dog is peeing on your keyboard? (looking at your avatar)

 

I'm pretty sure that's a Phillip's screen...but if it was supurb...why did you get a replacement?

 

It skips when I'm doing other tasks.
lol good thing the keyboard is spill proof!

 

lpl would be lg/phillips no llc

 

I had to get it replaced because the screen was making an electrical buzzing noise on anything other than the highest brightness setting