Change to the DV1000 series?

I went to Fry's Electronics in Houston two weeks ago and looked at the DV1000 series. There were three models there. Two had the BrightView sceen, and the other one didn't.

Upon looking at the two models with Brightview, my dad noticed that one of them had a slightly wider screen. I also noticed that. I also noticed that that model with the slightly wider screen also was noticably brighter than the other model with BrightView, the screen was comparable to the Toshiba Qosmio's screen, very bright and beautiful. I checked and saw that the two models were at their brightest setting. I didn't check to see if the vertical viewing angle was the same on the both of them. The horizontal viewing angle was very good though.

Has anyone else noticed this? Has HP started to use different screens in their DV1000 series? I also think that maybe the model I saw with the brighter screen which was also slightly wider, maybe they also fixed the vertical viewing angle problem so many are complaining about. What do you guys think?

 

It's very odd that the screens are so different that the width is off and that one would appear to not be BrightView...I believe all dv1000 notebooks come with BrightView. The thing is with screens, large manufacturers use several suppliers for the LCDs and they do have certain specs and failure rates that each outsource supplier has to meet and the screens *should* theoretically be all the same whether it's from supplier x, y or z. But this is not always the case. Sometimes a batch of LCDs are crap, sometimes Dell/HP/Sony/... don't enforce specs as they should and certain screens are inferior to what they should be.

Now, sometimes manufacturers do take a model series and adjust things behind the consumers back, for example the Dell Inspiron 8600 used to have a pointing stick when it was first made, but it mysteriously disappeared after some time and now you can't get that.

So, before you actually buy a dv1000 you might want to ask if you can open the box and look at the screen, see if it's what you're expecting.

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Not all DV1000 notebooks have the Brightview screen. You can custom order one to not have it and I've seen several models without it.

There were three DV1000 notebook there and two had Brightview. One of the ones with Brightview looked even brighter than the other one that had Brightview.

Does anyone have an explanation for this? I guess the two screens were made by different manufacturers perhaps?