DV6T FHD screen quality - Blue tint

I recently got my DV6TQE. Though i am happy with the way the laptop works, i am unhappy with the FHD screen. The screen is having more blue to it. Is this how all the FHD owners out there feel? Or am in the only one with such a screen. I don't want to go thru the hassle of exchange if that's how the screen will be.
Here is my screen for reference
DV6T FHD screen

 

Should I point out the obvious and say that you're comparing it to what is probably a $2000 mobile workstation with a Dreamcolor IPS display?

 

hm.. i definitely thought that there was a bluish tint to the DV6t. I don't think I would have noticed it but I had an external monitor attached to it. I'm guessing most people without a monitor would notice the blue, especially since everyone is raving about how great the 1080 screen is in comparison to the 720p crap

 

I know its obvious (i even mentioned it in that link)...But what that brings out is the true picture of this display quality. I don't see any reason to rave about the DV6T FHD display as people do here. I know its not full gamut, its 60%, but having a blue tint is not acceptable.

If someone can do a comparison to XPS15/Envy17/8460P/Lenovo T520 display, it can be useful to gauge the DV6T FHD quaility.

 

You can probably adjust the colors to make them warmer. Not sure how, but it should be possible.

 

To be fair, I think people were raving about a different screen. In that other thread, you said that you got the LP156WF1-TLF3 whereas the screen that was shipping with most of the early laptops was AUO... something or other.

Have you tried to calibrate the display?

 

I don't notice a blue tint to mine. Then again, I never put it next to my Dreamcolor EliteBook

 

I tried the Windows calibration tool to adjust the RGB values - no use there .

All i want to know is if everyone owning a DV6T FHD is experiencing this. If that's the case, i am not worried. If not, then i might ask for a replacement.

 

Well....how can I tell if there's something wrong? I have an AUO screen which is not your LG screen...and looking at it, the colors aren't amazing, but it's not exactly blue.

Do you have a good picture of it?

 

Picture of what?
And if any of you have a good camera and can take a picture of their screen and post it here. I can compare it at my end.

 

the auo screen also drifts towards the blue side, for example, dark red seems a little more purple.

all of this can be fixed by calibrating your color brightness/saturation. right click on your desktop and go into graphics properties (intel), then go into color enhancements. i personally increased red brightness to 1+, and that was enough of a calibration for me.

 

<s>Go into the Display control panel, click Calibrate Color, click next a few times, skip brightness and contrast adjustment, click next a few more times, then drag the blue (and maybe green) bars down a bit until the blue tint goes away.</s> beaten.

I did this to reduce the red tint on my RGBLED screen a bit, though I much prefer a red tint to a blue tint.

 

I will try it when i get home. Does this apply only when Intel graphic Card kicks in or does it stay for ATI card as well? Sorry, can't understand this Switchable stuff.

 

Thanks that helped and little better.

+1 rep.

 

I don't notice any tint on my AUO13ED.

 

Unfortunately, I have no pictures from my 8540p that I had to show it, but it did have a very slight blue cast. There was a picture of penguins and when I compared that agains the AUO screen of my dv6t, I noticed that although the dv6t showed the penguins as more gray, the LG screen on my 8540p showed it as a little more on the purple side. But, it wasn't dramatic. And, I felt that the definition and crispness of the LG screen was better. I could read text more easily on the LG screen and pictures seemed to pop out more. However, the LG screen was 1600X900 with no DPI scaling and the dv6t screen is the 1920X1080 with a scaled DPI so that may be the reason that the text looked different. And, the LG screen on the 8540p that I had is different than the one they're putting in the dv6t.

I would say that if you are within your return period and it bothers you that much, return it. As to whether you'd get the AUO screen the next time around, that's a gamble. They have interchanged the AUO and LG screens on the old EliteBooks and it seems they are doing the same with the Pavilions. If you want to stick with the dv6t, it may not be worth the hassle of trying a new one since you might end up with exactly the same screen again.

You may be able to adjust the color to remove the blue. I used your picture and have attached images here and I don't have a blue cast as you have seen. I have the AUO screen. I used the picture from the forum and overlayed the picture you sent me and took a picture of it without flash. It ended up a little dark because of it. It's not a very good comparison because it is a picture of a picture, but it's better than nothing I suppose. And then I took just a straight picture of the image you sent me.

I think the crispness of the AUO is not the greatest, but it's not horrible either. It appears however that the color reproduction is decent. Perhaps the LG has better text readabliity but poorer color. I don't know since I've never seen that particular screen.

In any case, good luck with your decision. I struggle a bit with my own issues with my laptop (mainly around the lack of a backlit keyboard and the light-leak from the LEDs on the right-hand side), but overall it's a good laptop for the price. I can do everything I need to do on it and the little costmetic quirks and such I'm sure I can ignore over time. Perhaps you too would get used to the blue cast over time or be able to correct it in calibration.

 

it works whether u are on intel or amd card. the new dv6/7s are muxless, which means everything eventually goes to the intel card (8x pci-e lanes are used to xfer between amd and intel when amd is turned on). you can adjust saturation for a more dramatic effect, although i noticed some loss of color differentiations when i do that (aka, what used to be different colors now look the same), so i opted for adjusting the color brightness instead.

the AUO panel doesn't seem to have a particular strong tint, and after a slight calibration (i just used a few color printout to calibrate instead of a real colorimeter), and it works pretty well. I'm sure the LG panel can be tweaked in a similar fashion.

 

Hey timtx1,

What are those pictures of? Is that a picture of your AUO screen?