1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:08,880 So, your new monitor finally arrived and you're super excited to play games at 4K 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:14,559 or watch techie on a screen that's big enough to let you spot that weird growth 3 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:16,720 on my chin that uh Sorry. Anyway, so you 4 00:00:14,559 --> 00:00:21,840 plug in your new display, but something doesn't seem right. Is there something 5 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:26,640 wrong with it, or do you just need to adjust some dials? 6 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:31,439 While it's true that many new monitors could use some adjustments called 7 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:34,079 calibration to look their best, defects 8 00:00:31,439 --> 00:00:39,520 out of the box are unfortunately not that uncommon. So, what should you be 9 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:44,239 looking for on both new displays as well as your existing display after you've 10 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:49,840 been using it for a while? Well, one relatively straightforward thing you can 11 00:00:46,079 --> 00:00:52,000 check for is dead or stuck pixels. This 12 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:56,480 is as easy as throwing up a little application called Dead Pixel Buddy on 13 00:00:54,239 --> 00:01:01,760 your screen and cycling through all the different colors, looking for any small 14 00:00:59,039 --> 00:01:07,280 points that are black or displaying the wrong color. This can happen due to 15 00:01:04,799 --> 00:01:11,520 defects in the manufacturing process or even from touching your screen too 16 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:17,040 roughly if you've owned your monitor for some time. Stuck pixels can sometimes be 17 00:01:14,799 --> 00:01:21,920 fixed with gentle pressure from something soft like a pencil eraser or 18 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:27,600 with freely available utilities that flash many colors per second on the spot 19 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:32,320 where your stuck pixel is. Dead pixels, however, are usually dead for good. So, 20 00:01:30,479 --> 00:01:38,000 check to see if your monitor is still under warranty and what the dead pixel 21 00:01:35,759 --> 00:01:42,320 terms of your warranty are. Some manufacturers need like five in one spot 22 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:46,560 in order to qualify. But what if your pixels all look okay, but you're 23 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:50,960 noticing areas that are strangely brighter than the rest of the screen? 24 00:01:48,799 --> 00:01:55,200 Well, if these areas are toward the corners or the edges, you could be 25 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:59,600 suffering from bleeding, which isn't to say blood loss. I'm talking, of course, 26 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:05,200 about backlight bleeding, which happens because modern flat panel displays, with 27 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:08,160 the exception of OLEDs, work by shining 28 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:13,840 a strong backlight through a liquid crystal display panel to create an 29 00:02:10,319 --> 00:02:16,800 image. Oftentimes, this backlight is not 30 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:22,720 completely blocked from leaking around the outsides of the LCD by the screen 31 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:25,120 bezel. This results in that backlight 32 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:29,840 bleed that causes that lightness around the edges. Now, I do have some bad news 33 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:35,760 about backlight bleed, and that is that the best way to avoid it is simply to 34 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:37,840 buy a higher quality display with higher 35 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:42,640 manufacturing standards, as there's pretty much nothing you can do to fix it 36 00:02:40,319 --> 00:02:47,840 yourself. Although, some intrepid do-it-yourselfers have tried dismantling 37 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:53,360 their monitors and sealing the edges of the LCD with electrical tape. But if you 38 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:58,800 have an IPS panel, make sure that you are not confusing backlight bleed with 39 00:02:56,080 --> 00:03:04,159 an effect that many have called IPS glow. This is a glow that's present on 40 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:09,920 some parts of IPS screens, especially when you view dark images, at an off 41 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:15,040 angle, and it actually is a result of the way that IPS technology works. So 42 00:03:12,959 --> 00:03:19,920 moving back from the screen a small amount or looking at the screen deadon 43 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:25,040 by moving your head to the side rather than turning to the side should mostly 44 00:03:22,319 --> 00:03:28,640 solve this problem and tell you whether you're dealing with IPS glow or 45 00:03:26,879 --> 00:03:33,280 backlight bleed. And the only way to avoid IPS glow is to make sure that you 46 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:37,040 read user reviews and see if other people are complaining about excessive 47 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:41,440 glow on the model that you're looking at. Okay. Okay, then what if you've got 48 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:46,720 light splotches on your screen that clearly aren't backlight bleed or IPS 49 00:03:44,159 --> 00:03:51,680 glow and look worse when your screen is very dark? This one is called clouding 50 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:56,560 and is usually a result of a physically damaged screen that was stored or 51 00:03:53,840 --> 00:04:00,080 transported improperly. There isn't much you can do about it once it happens. So, 52 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:04,799 make sure you're handling your display with care or get a prompt replacement if 53 00:04:02,799 --> 00:04:10,080 your monitor is new. Which leads us finally, speaking of things you can't 54 00:04:06,879 --> 00:04:12,239 reverse, beware of this one, to burnin, 55 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:17,440 which can happen if you display the same static image on your screen for a long, 56 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:21,680 long time. You'll see this often in public places like restaurants or 57 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:26,400 airports that often have things like a channel logo burned into the corner of 58 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:31,680 the screen or a grid that has constantly changing information in the cells, but 59 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:36,960 not in the lines themselves. Now, although burn-in is less common on 60 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:41,440 modern flat panels than on older CRTs and can sometimes actually be fixed in 61 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:45,040 more moderate cases, long-term burn-in can still permanently damage your 62 00:04:43,199 --> 00:04:49,680 monitor. So, unless you want to see the ghosts of computing sessions past every 63 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:54,000 time you sit down in front of your display, it is worthwhile to turn it off 64 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:58,320 when you're not using it or at the very least run a screen saver. So, I hope 65 00:04:56,479 --> 00:05:02,400 this summary helped, but I also don't want to scare you guys because even with 66 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:06,880 the army of problems that you can face as a monitor owner, most of them can be 67 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:11,199 avoided simply by doing your homework before buying, returning defective units 68 00:05:09,280 --> 00:05:15,360 on time if there is a problem, and by taking care of it after you buy it. 69 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:20,720 After all, I shouldn't have to tell you guys not to have cat agility contests or 70 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:25,360 BB gun fights in the same room where you keep your $1,000 ultrawide. 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