pmcollins
i just wanted a monitor for coding, nothing special. no special requirements for color, or refresh rate. i just need to display text. all the pixels are there. lots of pixels and none of them are dead. but the image is really bizarre, almost milky. unlike my macbook pro, which is *very* clear, the image on the LG 32UD60 is dark when viewed square on, but *lighter* when viewed at an angle. this is the *opposite* of the macbook, which gets darker the higher the angle at which you view any given part of the screen. the result is that on the LG, the image looks washed out and more so towards the edge of the screen, but it looks less so when you move your head so that youre seeing those pixels square on. compared to the mac, the problem is not the size of the screen requiring a large span of viewing angles, but rather something fundamental about how this screen was designed/manufactured. this is the only monitor ive ever bought that was weird. if amazon will accept my return, im going to send it back. what a pain. update: amazon accepted my return and doing so was very easy. i saw the monitor elsewhere and noticed that it generally renders just fine, but doesnt look great with white on black, which is how i spend most of my day. black on white looks fine.
