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    Calibrating 95% NTSC color gamut screen, bad results

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by kidio007, May 8, 2012.

  1. kidio007

    kidio007 Notebook Consultant

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    Hi, so I have had my NP5165 with the 95% NTSC color gamut screen for about half a year now. When I originally got it mythlogic calibrated the screen for me, but the profile added a green layer ontop of the screen. It also lowered the brightness a lot and made white look more green than white. So I went ahead and got a huey pro and calibrated all my screens, all looked great except for the 95% color gamut one. After that I just gave up and stuck with the stock profile.

    Now, half a year later, I picked up the spyder4express. I calibrated all my screens, and the 95% color gamut one still looks really bad after calibration. The other screens look great. I have desktop monitors with 95% and 110% NTSC color gamut aswell, they look really good after calibration, but I just don't understand why the 95% color gamut laptop screen looks so bad after calibration. I'm thinking it is the screen by now.

    Anyone with the 95% NTSC screen that get good results from calibrating the screen?
    Anything I can do to improve the calibration process on the laptop? Brightness to max?

    Also noticed something different from the profile made by the spyder4express. When I tilt the laptop screen forward I soon see the display going red. When I tilt the screen backwards the screen goes green in color. With the stock screen profile it just gets a bit greyer tilting the screen backwards and forwards. The viewing angles gets much more limited with the spyder4 profile, with a green filter over the screen, does not look good. I found other profiles made for this excact screen on the internet and on those profiles tilting the laptop screen bakwards and forwards I dont see it going red or green, just greyer.

    I can return the spyder4express and buy another screen for the laptop for the same price, because I already got a huey pro calibrator. but I want to make sure it is the laptop screen that is the problem, or if all screens of this model have this problem.

    Edit: I watched the calibration closely now, and at about 75% in, when it is about to adjust the white value, the whole screen just goes into that green mode.

    Before calibration, stock profile:
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    After calibration with 2 different calibrators:
    [​IMG]
     
  2. csoren

    csoren Notebook Consultant

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    This is a long shot, but I had a similar problem - are you sure the screen is not put into a dimmer power saving mode after, say, 3 minutes of keyboard inactivity? You definitely want to disable that, or press the shift key once in a while while calibrating.

    You'd think the calibrating software did that for you, but my Spyder4Express certainly doesn't.
     
  3. kidio007

    kidio007 Notebook Consultant

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    Yeah I turned the dim screen to never just when I installed windows 7. Would be interesting to know if anyone with 95% NTSC screens see this red and green color when tilting the screens back or forward. Before calibration the screen was perfectly white when tilting. The way it is now the viewing angles are extremely limited because I either see green or red. I guess at one fixed angle I see no green or red. But then I have to fine tune the screen. I sure hope people who calibrated this screen doesn't have to live with that.
     
  4. d2c

    d2c Notebook Consultant

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    never had that problem. my screen hasnt changed since i recieved it from mythlogic. Hit up the tech support they are the best, as a matter of fact i just wrote a review on their tech/customer support.
     
  5. wild05kid05

    wild05kid05 Cook Free or Die

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    pmed you , check them out
     
  6. idahosurge

    idahosurge Notebook Enthusiast

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    I calibrated my W150HR 95% matte display with ColorEyesDisplay Pro and a Spyder3. My screen looks great and when a white backround is displayed no matter how I tilt it the display stays white.

    My W150HR is 8 months old.