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    X-black fault?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by oscar8x, Jun 27, 2006.

  1. oscar8x

    oscar8x Notebook Enthusiast

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    I bought a Vaio FE-21B and I see the display badly if I see the display from up and some positions from other sides.

    I had a Toshiba laptop with Trubrite and I saw the display fantastic from any side but with this Sony I only see bright (from up) and a lot of shadows from sides (it dependes of the height from you look at) and I can't see anything on the screen.

    Is it normal or it's a fault of my laptop?
     
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    Juz_Follow_ATI ATI all the way

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    It's all normal. I get that prob 2. Toshiba's screens are amongst the best in the world so u don't have 2 worry bout this.

    Daniel
     
    Juz_Follow_ATI, Jun 27, 2006
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    err i dont think thats right... I have a sony FE to and its picture quality is amazing from any angle amd have been told so be alot of people, mines the from the first set of FE-s released though
     
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    Could it be solved by BIOS update?

    Further I have another problem with it, OSD sound works bad. From high to no gain uses only a quarter of lines of OSD . Firstly I thought It was due to Windows fail, but I tried in Linux Ubuntu and I have the same problem.
     
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    Confirmed. It's my display only.

    I compared with a Vaio FE21M and its display works good from any side and the Black was real Black, not like mine that it has too much backlight
     
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    okay i found out sony has two screens in the second version X-black and X-brite you went with the cheap X-black while if you had the X-brite you would get the better quality screen.
     
    matt_h1, Jun 27, 2006
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    Please, could u give me the link?

    thx
     
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    I found in this forum that this model FE-21B (FE690 in US , I think It was this one like 21B) has a X-Black with one lamp. No obstanding, FE-21M , FE-21S and FE-11 series has X-Black with two lamps)
     
    oscar8x, Jun 27, 2006
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