Is this 'normal' for a LED monitor?

Car712 · July 29, 2019

Ok so I recently got a super cheap AOC E2252s (WDN) 1080p LED monitor from a local store that's going out of business, it works well, except for one thing, the colors and contrast are weird as hell, I tried changing all kinds of settings but nothing 100% 'fixes' it. For example, colors (one example being if something yellow is at the top of the display vs the bottom, the color is slightly different depending on where it is) and contrast will look *very* different if they are at the top of the display vs the bottom, and sometimes white or grey ends up looking slightly green-ish despite my RGB settings being completely balanced all at 50, also the contrast between white/grey at the bottom of the display is much worse than at the top, for example, you wont see the small grey lines on a youtube video page if they are at the bottom of the display (never had this issue before with other displays/laptops). Is this just something I have to get used to with a LED monitor, or is there actually something wrong here? I just think its very odd, as ive never had this issue before with any other displays/laptops (although I don't think I've ever used an LED one either).

(Im connecting directly from my GPU to the monitor with a DVI cable, if that's important at all)

EPPHO · July 29, 2019

20 minutes ago, Car712 said:

a super cheap

this is why.

SolarNova · July 29, 2019

Sounds like a its an older cheap TN monitor. They have truly terrible viewing angles. Sit back further from the screen and try to be a spot on in front of it as possible. By which i mean don't be looking down or up at it or from side to side, be dead straight on.

FYI LED and LCD are the same. LED was used as marketing to refer to the type of backlight used when it was new. Older LCD's used CCFL backlights, then they introduced LED ones. Nowadays all LCD use LED, so all LCD monitors and TV technically are LED. LED refers to the backlight though, they are still LCD displays.

The difference between displays is the panel type ..or LCD type. you have 3. TN , VA, and IPS.