Recent content by raymod2

Grayscale uses full pixels and therefore has lower effective resolution compared to subpixel rendering. It is an inferior method for smoothing diagonal edges in text. I disagree that this is a software issue. The RGB layout is an industry standard for computer monitors. You can't create a...

Sure, if you are not using subpixel rendering (ie. ClearType) and you are displaying black and white text it will be sharp on an RWBG OLED panel. That is what Asus is doing in their highly misleading advertisement claiming to have superior text clarity compared to other OLED panels. I don't...

Your Alienware monitor does not use the same panel as the Asus PG42UQ. The PG42UQ uses an RWBG OLED panel. That panel should never have gone into a display that was marketed as a computer monitor. At least LG markets theirs as a television. This thread goes into great detail why the RWBG...

After months of staring at blurry text and color fringing on my PG42UQ I finally switched to a PG38UQ back in July. That is an IPS panel. The difference is night and day. I will never go back to an RWBG OLED panel again. Those panels were designed for televisions not computer monitors.

Guys go back and read the thread again. I proposed a very simple firmware solution. Simply change the logical grouping of subpixels from RWBG to WBGR. This puts the red and green subpixels next to each other where they can blend to form yellow. This is not a perfect solution but it would be...

No I don't wear glasses.

Better ClearType Tuner will not improve the text on OLED panels using the RWBG subpixel layout (such as the Asus PG42UQ). The photographs I posted above were taken from that application and as you can see BGR mode is worse than RGB mode.

Yes, black text on a white background is very crisp as long as you don't use subpixel rendering such as ClearType. For example, running the Fixedsys font inside a gvim.exe window looks very good. However, most applications in Windows use ClearType (for example your web browser or Windows File...

Here's the latest email I received from Asus support: "I am writing this email to provide you with an update about your ongoing case. In accordance with the recommendation of our Technical Product Management Team, as per checking on the previous case they already explain the principle of this...

Here is what ClearType looks like on my Asus PG42UQ. RGB mode (on the left side) has annoying artifacts. Notice the R+W+G shadow to the left of vertical edges. This artifact is visible at normal viewing distances and it is present regardless of font size. BGR mode (on the right side) is a...

Chief Blur Buster: With which companies are you communicating about possible solutions to color fringing and subpixel rendering of text? I finally got a response from Asus tech support and it didn't sound like they were interested in fixing it. I also found the following from Asus's promotional...

@Chief Blur Buster: I don't agree with your assessment that the LG and Samsung panels should both suffer from color fringing due to their subpixel layouts. The Samsung triangle layout seems perfectly suited to avoid this problem. All subpixels are equidistant from each other so all secondary...

@Chief Blur Buster: At first I thought you were being pedantic and the names WBGR and RWBG were equivalent. Now that I think about it the distinction is important and you are correct. There is no algorithm mapping pixels to subpixels that attempts to prioritize vertical alignment. They are...

Lifelite: What are you showing us? Some of the photos look like vertical edges between white and yellow. I agree there are no artifacts there on the AW3423DW (as Zephyr showed in his photo). Your photo with the text looks like white on a dark background. What does it look like with white on a...

Thanks for the photos. It looks like the LG C2 exhibits the same problem as the Asus PG42UQ (both using the same WBGR panel). This implies they are using the same (flawed?) algorithm to map pixels to WBGR subpixels. criccio: Another place where I see this regularly is in the Windows File...