The matter of fact is that we did calibrate, calibrate and calibrated some more on these panels. We tried many tints of red, blue and green on both panels, and this is the conclusion that I and 5 other people drew who we're there: 1. Straight out of the box colors on the LG were almost perfect, a few very minor tweaks and we got it to look great. 2. Samsung wasn't too bad straight out of the box only if you didn't see the LG first. 3. After calibrating both panels, the gap between the two screens increased in favor of the LG. This is not to say that the color reproduction on the Samsung got worst, it's just that the LG color reproduction got increasingly better.
The third thing that we did was put both the calibrated panels next a Sony sz laptop as the control. Lets just say that if the Sony was a 10 on a 1-10 scale, the LG would be a 9.5 and the Samsung would be 9.0. This conclusion was agreed upon by all 6 of us present. There happened to be a girl in the same room with us and we asked her to rate which screen was the best and she said the Sony first, followed closely by the LG and the Samsung in third. She said the LG and Sony were both sharp and the colors were very vibrant while the Samsung just didn't look as nice. She didn't notice the blue tint initially, but after a few moments, she clearly said that the Samsung panel looked slightly bluish (blue haze to be exact).
I apologize to morphy if this seemed like an attack to you but this is the conclusion that we reached after spending a decent amount of time calibrating both screens. Could we have done better on the Samsung panel? Maybe. But that applies to the LG panel as well. Could it be possible that the Samsung panel we were trying to calibrate really was a defective unit? Possibly, but not likely because it looked ok right out of the box. It's only until you look at the LG and Sony panels first that you realize the color reproduction on the Samsung is off. There needs to be some relative benchmark to compare to in order to state whether something is better.
Sorry for the lengthy post, but I had to defend me reputation. I' am no professional by any means and will admit that outright. If you are satisfied with your Samsung panel, then great. Although these conclusions were base on self judgment and without any real scientific method, I think they represent an honest fact that the LG is simply better than the Samsung panel. Though some would say it is only marginal, I'd say that it is truly noticeable only when they are side by side.
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