Any ECO-screen users try to reduce gamma for darker colors?

So I noticed having hopped on my FE790 (3-years old) with Hi-Color technology that the contrast is SOOOOOO much better than on my FW465. The colors on me FE790 look so much more vibrant and it was rather painful to look at the same picture of a multicolored flower on the FW with the FE790 right by its side. I decided to use the Catalyst Control Ceneter from ATI to try to tweak the settings. I found by reducing the gamma to .85 (1.0 being default) the colors seemed darker (blacks looked blacker, red looked redder etc). Although it was not nearly as close to the high-color screen my old vaio had.

 

Same here on my FW45V (european model). Gamma 0.85 and brightness -20.

 

The screen should be fine, it's probably the factory setup (color profile) they messed up.....try using a colorimeter (hardware monitor calibrator) to get the best results.

 

Thanks the brightness reduction helped

 

Would be great if anybody with a VAIO FW with Eco had a colorimeter and could provide optimal settings for this notebook. I think bad standard settings could be the reason for some of the bad reviews of the eco.

 

Is there software that can calibrate the laptop screen?

If so can you point me in the right direction?

 

You might try this tool: http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/gamma_calibration.php

But remember: If you search "Phil"'s and my postings summarizing the FW screen contrast ratios and luminescence across the different refreshes FW1-FW4 (all taken from the reviews at notebookcheck.net), you will discover that neither the current Eco nor the FullHD have screens with similar measurements to the HiColor screens. And remember also that Sony does not even refer to the FullHD as having 100% color purity as it did for the HiColor screens.

In other words, probably the only thing that is like the HiColor (and exceeds it) is the RGB LED. See the thread on the "too contrasty AW" screen for more details posted there.

And especially see this link for an in-depth discussion (and images) of HiColor: http://auo.com/auoDEV/technology.php?sec=HiColor

 

I mentioned elsewhere that a side-by-side of the FW1 series HiColor and the FW3 series FullHD confirmed that the FullHD at its brightest was one or two "hits" darker than the HiColor on its brightest setting.

Just to indicate that FullHD is not all it's cracked up to be (all puns intended).