Do I have a bad panel?

[LazyDev]

4 year old monitor on left 8 year old on right. You can see the the white bleeding through the screen effecting the contrast

 

I've calibrated and changed various settings on my monitor to no change other than darkening the whole screen.

 

Connections on both monitors are VGA.

 

Monitor left is an LG Flatron W1943SS

Monitor right is an EMachines 700G

[Hans Christian | Teri]

Throw both in the garbage and get some decent monitors instead.

[LazyDev]

Throw both in the garbage and get some decent monitors instead.

Back into reality, I cannot afford anything.

[Hans Christian | Teri]

Back into reality, I cannot afford anything.

 

There's a good chance 4 and 8 year old low end monitors have bad panels with severe bleed, that's why cheap monitors are cheap. Nothing you can do about it.

[Geekazoid]

What display type are they, TN, VA or IPS?

@LazyOdin

[Scruffy90]

It happens over time, even with high end panels. The more you use them, the more you have to calibrate them over time. Just finish running them into the ground and slowly save up for new monitors.

[Geekazoid]

Out with the old and in with the new I say.