[iyonix-support] Re: iyonix-support Digest V3 #86

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> iyonix-support Digest   Mon, 14 Apr 2008        Volume: 03  Issue: 086

> In This Issue:
>                 [iyonix-support] Re: Icon Bar brightness
>                 [iyonix-support] Re: Icon Bar brightness
>                 [iyonix-support] Re: Icon Bar brightness
>                 [iyonix-support] Re: Icon Bar brightness
>                 [iyonix-support] Re: Icon Bar brightness
>                 [iyonix-support] Re: Icon Bar brightness
>                 [iyonix-support] Re: Icon Bar brightness
>                 [iyonix-support] Re: Icon Bar brightness
>                 [iyonix-support] Re: Icon Bar brightness
>                 [iyonix-support] Re: Icon Bar brightness
>                 [iyonix-support] Re: Icon Bar brightness
>                 [iyonix-support] Re: Icon Bar brightness
>                 [iyonix-support] Re: Icon Bar brightness
>                 [iyonix-support] Re: Icon Bar brightness
>                 [iyonix-support] Re: Icon Bar brightness
>                 [iyonix-support] Re: Icon Bar brightness
>                 [iyonix-support] Re: Icon Bar brightness
>                 [iyonix-support] Re: Icon Bar brightness
>                 [iyonix-support] Re: Icon Bar brightness
>                 [iyonix-support] Re: Icon Bar brightness
>                 [iyonix-support] Re: Icon Bar brightness
>                 [iyonix-support] Re: Icon Bar brightness

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> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:30:00 +0100
> From: dave higton <davehigton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [iyonix-support] Re: Icon Bar brightness

> Quoting Roger Darlington <rogerarm@xxxxxxxxxx>:

>> On 12 Apr 2008, Dave Higton wrote:
>>> In message <4d55c97b4efef6c98e4f.rogerarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>           Roger Darlington <rogerarm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Having just purchased an LCD monitor, I find that it is brighter at
>>>> the foot of the screen and darker at the top (a HP w2408h).
>>>> 
>>>> The icon bar now looks abnormally bright.
>>>> 
>>>> Is there any way I can alter the icon bar so that it is less bright
>>>> (ie more grey rather than snowy)?
>>> 
>>> Are you sure that both backlights are working?
>> 
>> Yes.
>>> 
>>> If yes, is there an issue with your viewing position?
>> 
>> No.
>> 
>> It is a characteristic of the poor quality of the LCD within a HP
>> w2408h monitor: don't get one!

> Ah.  It sounds like there /is/ an issue with your viewing position.
> It doesn't suit the monitor!

> Dave

> ------------------------------

> Subject: [iyonix-support] Re: Icon Bar brightness
> From: Roger Darlington <rogerarm@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:23:17 +0100

> On 14 Apr 2008, dave higton wrote:
>> Quoting Roger Darlington <rogerarm@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> 
>>> On 12 Apr 2008, Dave Higton wrote:
>>>> In message <4d55c97b4efef6c98e4f.rogerarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>           Roger Darlington <rogerarm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Having just purchased an LCD monitor, I find that it is brighter at
>>>>> the foot of the screen and darker at the top (a HP w2408h).
>>>>> 
>>>>> The icon bar now looks abnormally bright.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is there any way I can alter the icon bar so that it is less bright
>>>>> (ie more grey rather than snowy)?
>>>> 
>>>> Are you sure that both backlights are working?
>>> 
>>> Yes.
>>>> 
>>>> If yes, is there an issue with your viewing position?
>>> 
>>> No.
>>> 
>>> It is a characteristic of the poor quality of the LCD within a HP
>>> w2408h monitor: don't get one!
>> 
>> Ah.  It sounds like there /is/ an issue with your viewing position.
>> It doesn't suit the monitor!

> Unfortunately, correct:

> The screen brightness is uniform if I sit (on axis) at an infinite
> distance away. If i sit nearer and nearer, then the screen gets dimmer
> and dimmer at the top, and brighter and brighter at the bottom. At
> normal (on axis) reading distance of 18 inches (who reads a book at 5
> feet?), there is pronounced darkening at top and a pronounced
> brightening at foot of screen:-(

> It does, however, become less pronounced after it has been on for 15
> mins or more, but still very noticeable.

> Moreover, the Menu button on the monitor does not put up the on-screen
> OSD. [It might if I used it with a PC]. But in my opinion, a monitor
> should be self-contained, integral, without reliance on a computer for
> functions that it should have resident within it.

> Paul: I don't know whether momentarily setting it up on a PC will then
> ensure that the Menu button does then work with the PC switched off?
> i.e. I wonder if connecting it up to a PC temporarily will make the
> Menu button work permanently?





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I have no technical expertise whatsoever, but for what it's worth, I 
have a 19" Digimate LCD, bought from ETC. (Dave Lawton), at Wakefield 
three years ago I have none of the problems described here. I've got 
my monitor about 70cm away and it's fine. I use a KVM switchbox to 
share the monitor, (and keyboard and mouse), with my Iyonix and HP 
Pavilion PC and the menu button plus all other buttons,(eg. volume), 
work normally all the time regardless of which machine I'm currently 
viewing. I bought my Iyonix and Pavilion last Christmas. Before that I 
had the KVM sharing the monitor between my Kinetic RiscPC and a 
RiscCube PC also just the same - monitor buttons worked regardless of 
which machine was being used. Likewise if I only had/have my RISC OS 
machine on, (quite likely!).

Dunno if this helps!
-- 
Alex.

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