UNCLBEN

My work laptop is a Dell Latitude D600. It washes out light colors horribly. Sky blue and sea green are indistinguishable. Light yellow is about as far from white as "pearl" is. I have tried fiddling with gamma, contrast, and brightness, to no avail.

The other day I noticed something weird, though. If I tilt the screen away from me the light colors display accurately! There is a huge difference in screen contrast/brightness with vertical angle, now that I'm paying attention to it.

My desktop image is a good mix of light and dark colors. To differentiate the [lighter] features from their [darker, duh] shadows at the top of the image, I need the screen to be about perpendicular to my viewing angle, as you might expect. However, this makes the lower half of the screen wash out light colors as described above. To solve that, I must tilt the screen back about 45 degrees, at which point the colors at the bottom of the screen are perfect but the colors at the top of the screen are all close to black.

What's up here?
a) I'm too picky about color reproduction.
b) All/most LCDs suck this badly.
c) Just this Dell display sucks this badly.
d) My display is defective.

Whatever the case, is there any way to fix it? (heh, no pun intended)

MrDigital

I've had the problem with every laptop I've ever used, so I don't know if it's just a problem with laptops or LCD's in general.

It always drives me nuts too though, but when I saw it on enough laptops I assumed it was normal. That said, I think the new round of "ultrabrite" screens fixes it?

-MrD

FiG

Just out of curiosity, didja have your tubes tied recently? My home ec teacher complained of the same symptoms after he had his tubes tied....just a guess.