15" Display - Orangegate

I've been wondering if the 15" Vizios use the same IPS display as the Sony S15 and the HP Envy - the one that suffers from very poor reproduction of reds. Can anyone who has seen one in person confirm whether the color reproduction is OK?

Here's a picture of the HP next to a "good" monitor for reference.

 

Just got my CN15-A2 from Amazon (yay). While I was going to post that the Vizio's screen's reds seem fairly red when compared to my desktop monitor, I sorta realized my monitor wasn't at-all awesome.

However, it doesn't appear super orange as depicted in the screenshot (but the laptop is less bright/vibrant red than the red of my Samsung TN paneled monitor).

 

Thanks, that's promising! Maybe it uses the same display as the 15" Lenovos. If you could take some pictures it would be greatly appreciated!

 

Hrm, I just got off work so I'll work on this.

However, just from looking at the screen through my camera, I noticed that the camera makes the screen appear orange.

I created a Microsoft Paint project filled with a custom color (hue 0, saturation 240, luminance 120, red 255, green 0, blue 0), on a resolution of 1920x1080, and then full-screened it. Looking at the screen with the naked eye appears definitively red to me, but looking through the digital viewfinder of my camera, I definitely see a bright orange.

Does anyone have a color-gamut/rainbow type of picture where the HP Envy15 and Sony S15 fail to discern between red and orange?

EDIT: Adding Pictures from my Canon SD1100-IS and my phone. Keep in mind that both look similarly red when I just look at them side by side, but the cameras observe something different. Top left monitor is Samsung 205BW, bottom right monitor, Vizio CN15-A2 (15.6" IPS). Pardon my bad photos and choice of music video (only video I had with prominent reds).

Taken with Canon SD1100-IS




Taken with Motorola Atrix 4G




I don't know what causes the discrepancy between the two cameras (and the naked eye). Everything looks red to me, so if anyone has a picture where the HP Envy15 or Sony S15 fail to distinguish between orange and red, I can also test and take pictures of that.

 

+Rep, thanks! That doesn't look as bad as the HP but it does look somewhat orange-y.

Here's a review with graphs of the HP Envy 15's color gamut: HP Envy 15-3040nr Laptop Review - Notebookcheck.net Reviews

 

I have been to the microsoft store and compared the netflix site to my galaxy s2 cellphone. The red is red, there's no orange gate with the vizio. Can't say the same for the Sony S15 and the SAMSUNG series 9!!(yeah I didn't know the samsung series 9 had this issue, but the red was not all that red compared to my cellphone..maybe it's not calibrated correctly?)

 

Actually, the main reason I didn't get a Samsung (Series 7, 15.6") was because their colors were so dulled out even on the highest brightness... like everything felt like it was through some sort of color filter.

Enjoying my Vizio so far, except for the multi-touch mousepad sensitivity.

 

Hmm, maybe you could try dropping the brightness level of the laptop screen? The photo with the girl looks like the colors are blown out on the laptop screen.

Then again, it could be the color depth the the screen. I don't know the specifics of those two screens, but I've heard laptop screens are typically 6bit vs. 8bit.

Mike