Tweaking nVida Display Settings on DV8000T

Would be interested in what adjustments you have made to your nVida Color Correction settings to make your LCD look better. Thank you for any input.

Gary

 

I would like to know too, i have a compaq V3000 and it look pale and doesnt look as vivid compare to my desktop lcd.

 

crazychrono100,

I'd be interested to know what manufacturer made your display. I just got my V3000 today and my LCD was manufactured by SEC. From reading other posts on this forum, it seems that LCDs made by QDS and others are better than the SEC displays.

I'm thinking of returning mine to see if I can get one with a different (non-SEC) LCD. My main problems are brightness (too low) and viewing angle.

 

I found the V3000 at Costco and it had the QDS screen. I bought it and took it home to compare side-by-side with the SEC. The brightness and viewing angle were definitely better on the QDS screen.

The viewing angles and lack of brightness hurt my eyes a little on the SEC screen as I had to continously reposition my head to see the different parts of the screen. So, even though the processor speed was lower on the one from Costco, I decided that the screen on the one I ordered from HP was too poor. I'm returning the one with the SEC screen. Unfortunately, I won't get my shipping fee back, but they gave me a full refund on the computer.

 

You can probably improve the image quality of your v3000 somewhat, but it'll be very difficult to tweak the settings and make the two look the same because desktops tend to have much better contrast/image quality/viewing angles than notebooks. For example, Samsung's best notebook LCD is their 19" widescreen at 600:1 contrast ratio and 130 degree viewing angle. In comparison, their newest desktop LCD sports a 1500:1 contrast ratio and 178 degree vertical viewing angle, which leads to much better image quality.

This disparity is true for every manufacturer because the packaging constraints of notebook LCDs inevitably make it difficult if not impossible to match desktop LCD specs. Some Sony and Fujitsu notebooks come close to mid range desktop LCDs but HP/Compaq uses notebook LCDs that are far from the best of the best, making the difference look even bigger.