WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:08.880 So, your new monitor finally arrived and you're super excited to play games at 4K 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 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:16.720 on my chin that uh Sorry. Anyway, so you 00:00:14.559 --> 00:00:21.840 plug in your new display, but something doesn't seem right. Is there something 00:00:19.680 --> 00:00:26.640 wrong with it, or do you just need to adjust some dials? 00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:31.439 While it's true that many new monitors could use some adjustments called 00:00:28.400 --> 00:00:34.079 calibration to look their best, defects 00:00:31.439 --> 00:00:39.520 out of the box are unfortunately not that uncommon. So, what should you be 00:00:36.640 --> 00:00:44.239 looking for on both new displays as well as your existing display after you've 00:00:41.840 --> 00:00:49.840 been using it for a while? Well, one relatively straightforward thing you can 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:52.000 check for is dead or stuck pixels. This 00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:56.480 is as easy as throwing up a little application called Dead Pixel Buddy on 00:00:54.239 --> 00:01:01.760 your screen and cycling through all the different colors, looking for any small 00:00:59.039 --> 00:01:07.280 points that are black or displaying the wrong color. This can happen due to 00:01:04.799 --> 00:01:11.520 defects in the manufacturing process or even from touching your screen too 00:01:09.360 --> 00:01:17.040 roughly if you've owned your monitor for some time. Stuck pixels can sometimes be 00:01:14.799 --> 00:01:21.920 fixed with gentle pressure from something soft like a pencil eraser or 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:27.600 with freely available utilities that flash many colors per second on the spot 00:01:24.720 --> 00:01:32.320 where your stuck pixel is. Dead pixels, however, are usually dead for good. So, 00:01:30.479 --> 00:01:38.000 check to see if your monitor is still under warranty and what the dead pixel 00:01:35.759 --> 00:01:42.320 terms of your warranty are. Some manufacturers need like five in one spot 00:01:40.240 --> 00:01:46.560 in order to qualify. But what if your pixels all look okay, but you're 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:50.960 noticing areas that are strangely brighter than the rest of the screen? 00:01:48.799 --> 00:01:55.200 Well, if these areas are toward the corners or the edges, you could be 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:59.600 suffering from bleeding, which isn't to say blood loss. I'm talking, of course, 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:05.200 about backlight bleeding, which happens because modern flat panel displays, with 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:08.160 the exception of OLEDs, work by shining 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:13.840 a strong backlight through a liquid crystal display panel to create an 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:16.800 image. Oftentimes, this backlight is not 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:22.720 completely blocked from leaking around the outsides of the LCD by the screen 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:25.120 bezel. This results in that backlight 00:02:22.720 --> 00:02:29.840 bleed that causes that lightness around the edges. Now, I do have some bad news 00:02:28.160 --> 00:02:35.760 about backlight bleed, and that is that the best way to avoid it is simply to 00:02:32.720 --> 00:02:37.840 buy a higher quality display with higher 00:02:35.760 --> 00:02:42.640 manufacturing standards, as there's pretty much nothing you can do to fix it 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:47.840 yourself. Although, some intrepid do-it-yourselfers have tried dismantling 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:53.360 their monitors and sealing the edges of the LCD with electrical tape. But if you 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:58.800 have an IPS panel, make sure that you are not confusing backlight bleed with 00:02:56.080 --> 00:03:04.159 an effect that many have called IPS glow. This is a glow that's present on 00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:09.920 some parts of IPS screens, especially when you view dark images, at an off 00:03:07.440 --> 00:03:15.040 angle, and it actually is a result of the way that IPS technology works. So 00:03:12.959 --> 00:03:19.920 moving back from the screen a small amount or looking at the screen deadon 00:03:17.760 --> 00:03:25.040 by moving your head to the side rather than turning to the side should mostly 00:03:22.319 --> 00:03:28.640 solve this problem and tell you whether you're dealing with IPS glow or 00:03:26.879 --> 00:03:33.280 backlight bleed. And the only way to avoid IPS glow is to make sure that you 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:37.040 read user reviews and see if other people are complaining about excessive 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 00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:46.720 light splotches on your screen that clearly aren't backlight bleed or IPS 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:51.680 glow and look worse when your screen is very dark? This one is called clouding 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:56.560 and is usually a result of a physically damaged screen that was stored or 00:03:53.840 --> 00:04:00.080 transported improperly. There isn't much you can do about it once it happens. So, 00:03:58.720 --> 00:04:04.799 make sure you're handling your display with care or get a prompt replacement if 00:04:02.799 --> 00:04:10.080 your monitor is new. Which leads us finally, speaking of things you can't 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:12.239 reverse, beware of this one, to burnin, 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:17.440 which can happen if you display the same static image on your screen for a long, 00:04:15.040 --> 00:04:21.680 long time. You'll see this often in public places like restaurants or 00:04:19.440 --> 00:04:26.400 airports that often have things like a channel logo burned into the corner of 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:31.680 the screen or a grid that has constantly changing information in the cells, but 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:36.960 not in the lines themselves. Now, although burn-in is less common on 00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:41.440 modern flat panels than on older CRTs and can sometimes actually be fixed in 00:04:39.040 --> 00:04:45.040 more moderate cases, long-term burn-in can still permanently damage your 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:49.680 monitor. So, unless you want to see the ghosts of computing sessions past every 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:54.000 time you sit down in front of your display, it is worthwhile to turn it off 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 00:04:56.479 --> 00:05:02.400 this summary helped, but I also don't want to scare you guys because even with 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 00:05:04.960 --> 00:05:11.199 avoided simply by doing your homework before buying, returning defective units 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. 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 00:05:18.400 --> 00:05:25.360 BB gun fights in the same room where you keep your $1,000 ultrawide. Though, of 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:28.720 course, if you are the kind of person who doesn't know those kinds of things 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:33.280 on their own, maybe you should do some learning. 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