Rendering in movies
Full HD + wide gamut... With televisions when we connect an HD source (Bluray or HD-DVD player), the combination can be amazing. There is exceptional sharpness, vivid colors, and often perfect gradations.
Unfortunately, with monitors it’s another story. At the moment, none are equipped with image correction circuitry, and we have to rely on a few functions offered by graphic cards to reduce the undesirable side effects of MPEG compression and video noise. Also, monitors are almost all subject to solarization, in other words, blocks of uniform color where we should see a superb gradations. This Dell screen doesn’t set itself apart here and it also shimmers as much as the others.
In short, its wide gamut doesn’t improve anything in this domain and it only changes the rendering of some colors. For example, certain blues have a purple tinge. This is probably closer to what the camera actually captured but much less beneficial than noise and compression correction circuitry.
On the other hand, in movies we did appreciate its open viewing angles. This is a defect of TNs like the last Iiyama we tested where the screen will turn black when we lean back on couch. At least this 2407WFP-HC doesn’t have this problem, however, we suggest you better adjust your graphic card to minimize the effects on video (see our article
ATI and NVIDIA correct the LCD shimmering in movies).
