do these pictures show grainyness

I have a general idea of what it is but i really can't tell. here are a few pictures of my new 1520 screen, dunno if they will help though seeing as my camera sucks lol.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v410/kamuiii/PICT0222.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v410/kamuiii/PICT0223.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v410/kamuiii/PICT0221.jpg

 

do YOU think there is a problem with your screen, or does it look okay to you?

if it looks fine to you, then why look for a problem?

 

Maybe he wants to see if he has the option to make it look even better.

 

If you have to put up pics to ask, your screen is FINE! Some of the standard forum doom and gloom is turning people into pixel peepers for sure.

And if he has a screen that he can not find a problem with, he also has a chance of getting a worse screen too

 

If the screen is grainy and he doesn't notice the problem, he wouldn't get a worse screen...

 

He/she could get a screen with a poor backlight, worse colors, light leakage, or an actual (or worse) graininess problem. Getting hardware replaced for an invisible problem is asking for trouble.

 

This reminds me of what happens in hospitals after Dateline or 48 Hours runs a segment about some rare, mystery disease. The next days hundreds of hypochondriacs come in claiming to have the disease!!

 

does dell resell the grainy screens?

 

No, I'm fairly sure that DELL does not resell screens that are returned. That's just bad business.
And i'm not seeing any graininess in your screen.

 

I really can't tell. Mine is grainy as hell so I can't tell if yours is fine on a grainy screen. But I love my display. It's awesome. 1680x1050 baby!!!

 

Years ago, my dad bought a refurbished Dell notebook which had three dead pixels in the upper middle right quadrant. When I saw it I immediately told him to return it.. that would have drove me crazy. But he just said he got a great deal and that it did not bother him too much. I am absolutely convinced to this day that dell knew about that display issue. In fact, I am sure the original owner sent that system back for those dead pixels. Unless anyone can prove to me otherwise, I am convinced that Dell still sends out questionable displays on their refurbished systems. I hate that word refurbished since they may not refurbish at all. That incident has keep me from ever considering buying a refurbished system from Dell or anyone else.

 

We're both speculating at opposite ends of the spectrum. Let's stop it.

 

Your screen looks good. I think the majority of grainy screens looked like it had vaseline smeared across it. What type of screen is it glossy, glossy with Treulife, or anti-glare?

 

Are u going to get it replaced?

I am sort of scared now because i ordered the WSXGA+ screen too.

 

At this point, if grainy screens are still being shipped, they aren't in the MAJORITY anymore. At any rate, it was mainly the WXGA+ screens that were affected.

Check your device manager for the screen ID code. Unless it is AUO, you aren't likely to have a grainy screen.

 

yes, remember that ppl who are on these forums are most likely the ones complaining about the screens. We dont get to hear 99% of the success stories, but boy do we hear 99% of the failures (please dont quote these numbers )

 

Lucky you! I've been scoping outlet and haven't seen anything other than a black system! Though, you did miss out on the coupons just released today.

Kanbi

 

i dont see any that i can tell but its hard from pics.. but it looks fine imo

 

Dont be scared.

I got the WSXGA+ Screen, and I love it.

IMHO, the best way to see the "graininess" is to have medium sized white window on your desktop against a regular picture background, and move the white window around. Then you can see small speckles that are stationary in the white, while you move the screen.

But this is just the truelife coating, and unless some early inspiron 1520's had dramatically worse coating, it looks perfectly normal. I went to circuit city, and every single laptop there had the same "Grianiness", the HPs, the Toshibas, the Sonys, The Acers, The Fujitsu's - it is just the glossy coating, and it MAKES THE SCREEN LOOK BETTER - that's why they put it on in the first place.

When I got my system, the color looked a little washed out, but I adjusted the Gamma down a bit, and it now looks much better.

Is it as bright as my desktop 19" screen? No. Not quite. But it (the laptop screen) also doesnt show any vertical bars in that "24 bit color" test eiher. Im happy with it.

The other thing that really suprised me was that if I resize the desktop from 1680x1050 down to other resolutions (like 1440x900 or 1280x800) the screen still looks amazing, and the text is still perfectly crisp. I was worried about this, and now I see I didnt need to.
Oh, that reminds me. Ive had mine for 3 days and I havent listened to the audio jack for noise yet....

 

Oh don't worry, the noise is there.

 

Really?? I saw several reds, blues, browns and whites in addition to all the blacks. There were even some greens and yellows today. I did have one $100 off coupon I was able to use, so I was okay with that.

 

its the glossy with true life xsga+, yea i love my screen i was just wondering. I went to bestbuy today to look at an asus screen and i can say that the dell screen is much better to me.

 

Those photos are way too small to say anything for sure. You’ll have to post close up high resolution images. Then again, if the screen looks ok, and you are happy with it; why bother?

I can remember when I ordered my M1210 there was lot of talk about light leakage and color intensity of M1210 screens. But once I got it, it didn’t look terrible as I feared. Even though It has some light leakage , I’m fine with it.

 

I thought the majority of grainy WSXGA+ screens were SEC. That being said, my SEC is only grainy very close up.

 

Could be... I'm only going by what I've read in other threads.

 

My SEC is grainy, I think. I don't even know. It looks sparkly kinda on white backgrounds only. But I think it looks cool.

 

My screen is SEC3350

There is light leakage though.

 

How would I test for light leakage?

 

Set your screensaver to a completely black background under display options.

Then click the option to test it and look at your screen in a dark room. If your screen looks like there is still light around it, then you have light leakage. This is widespread among the inspirons and vostros, but as long as you don't notice it in the normal course of using your laptop (which you haven't, obviously), then it isn't an issue.