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So I am considering purchasing a ShiMian. I have a couple of questions I was hoping people here could answer.

1. What size of Vesa mount does this monitor use? I'm planning on buying the ShiMian Lite and a Vesa mount. The mount I am looking at is the Monoprice 5970 (75x75 and 100x100 Vesa support).
2. I have also seen some people discussing problems with the monitor's Vesa mount. Do you have to do any drilling? Also does it come with screws?
3. Is the lifetime of the monitor expected to be long? I have always liked LG panels I currently have a lower end LG 21.5" 1920 x 1080 FLATRON. How long have you had your ShiMian, and has it held up well?
4. Is it worth it to get the pixel perfect option if I order from ta_planet? I have seen many people say they are getting pixel perfect displays without requesting it.
5. Would I have to pay extra for customs or tax in the US?
6. Is dream_seller a recommended seller? They are slightly lower rated than ta_planet. They sell the ShiMian shipped for ~20 less than ta_planet but I have also heard great things about communication regarding ta_planet.

Thank y'all very much.

Got mine showing 85Hz but it is really 60Hz :-)

1) They are 100x100.
2) Seems easy enough, the screws slots are right on the back. The catleap is the monitor where you have to take it apart to vesa mount it.
3) Only a few days but I've never had a monitor fail on me except for a DLP screen because of the moving parts. If it doesn't have moving parts it should work for a very long time.
4) Lots of people are jumping on the bandwagon now and resellers know how picky customers are. I bought mine from dream-seller and he told me they open and check now to make sure the monitors are in good condition. It seems like the smart thing to do since ebay favors the customer in disputes.
5) US and Korea have a Free Trade agreement so no.
6) Slightly lower rated is what, .01%? If they have ebay's top-rated seller and have thousands of recent feedback, there is really no difference.

hmm might shoot for the qh270-lite Pixel Perfect for 329.99 from red-cap. sooo much cheaper than the crossover 2720mdp i was originally looking at for $459 with no guarantee of pixel perfect. it seems the stand is easy to take off too, yes? just two screws holding it behind the monitor? nothing else holding it? the latest batches people recently bought in the last week or two haven't shown any signs of problems, yes?

i remember reading about some posts saying about dust being stuck behind the glass. can the people who recently bought them please tell if they have encountered this issue? that is only for the IPSB models and not the qh270-lite, right?

edit: bit the bullet @ 329.99 from red-cap for the Perfect Pixel qh270-lite. the 100v-240v power brick should work just fine in the united states, right?
Edited by doco - 7/4/12 at 7:26am

Finally!

So today I went to customs office (again) to get my Shimian. I had to pay ~$30 of taxes because I had it declared at $110, otherwise taxes would be ~$80. Score!

I carried it home on foot with outside temperature about 35 °C (95 °F) which was a 20 minute walk with A LOT of sweat.

It was decently wrapped in bubble wrap, inside of the box was not very well protected (apart from standard styrofoam) but the package as a whole had no damage.

I assembled it, plugged it in, and... Nothing. Just a flashing blue light. I tried everything and it just wouldn't turn on, as if there's no source.

Then it hit me. In all of my excitement, I had a nice little herp derp moment. I plugged it in my integrated GPU (Intel 3000). So I plugged it into my HD 7850 and it works perfectly.

After brief inspection, there is a single green stuck pixel in second quadrant of the screen, closer to the edge than to the centre. It's visible only on black background and if you get close and really look for it. Definitely not visible from where I sit. There is also minor backlight bleeding on the bottom, but nothing too bad. I'll inspect it more carefully at night.

The screen itself is HUGE, probably because I'm coming from 20'' display. The screen real estate, as they say, is out of this world.

Stand is better than I expected, I thought it would be all wobbly and unstable, but it's just fine.

There is no screen tint (blue, yellow or whatever) or any sort of gradient.

All in all, I'm extremely satisfied. Games and movies look amazing, especially games at 1440p. I'll have to cut AA down to run them smoothly, though.

Here's a bad picture taken with my brother's HTC Desire, next to my Samsung T200:



Secondary monitor is plugged into my integrated GPU because I don't need it for gaming, only monitoring utilities and such.

I posted this yesterday. Can you tell me if this is identical to your green spot. Like you, this is not really an issue for me as the spot is TINY. I'm not trying to nitpick, just interested in the why and how.


I have a strange effect on my ShiMian Lite model (pixel perfect).

Got it last week and was praising the quality, but noticed a stuck green dot yesterday. The very odd part is that it's less than a pixel. I found it on a black screen. It was extremely faint, barely noticeable. Putting up an all red screen and using a magnifier, I noticed the green dot as being about 30% the area of the lit adjacent red sub-pixel. It also had an irregular shape unlike the lit red which has a vertical, sharply defined, rectangular shape.
Anyone has a clue as to what is happening?

All other aspects of the monitor are excellent.

When I have a green screen, I cannot see any defects. It appears that the other 70% of the flawed sub pixel works normally. Same thing with a white screen.
Only when the green sub pixels are totally off as in black, red and blue screens, can you see the flaw appear as a partially lit green sub pixel.
I used this page for observing http://jasonfarrell.com/misc/deadpixeltest.php

I can see mine only on black background, though I don't have a magnifier to check on red background. But yes, it's extremely tiny and barely visible.

As for backlight bleeding, after some more inspection, there seems to be more bleeding than I initially thought, but pros of this monitor far outweigh that one single con which is only visible on very dark screen (e.g. in Amnesia: The Dark Descent).

It looks like we have the same defect. Upon reading a bit, I now think its a tiny hole in the liquid crystal layer, without the ability to block the backlight. This explains the remaining portion of the green sub pixel working normally.

Even though I bought a pixel perfect model, I will not fuss about this. Even if I know its there I really don't see it unless I do a close search.

Wonder how many more have this. If correct, it CANNOT be corrected, but as we agree, its TINY and almost unnoticeable.

I don't mind it at all. Backlight bleed bothers me more. But for $315 (+ $30 taxes), I'm more than happy.

Thank you very much!
So it seems the monoprice mount I am planning on buying will fit. I am planning on purchasing the Monoprice 5970.
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=108&cp_id=10828&cs_id=1082808&p_id=5970&seq=1&format=2
I have heard great things about that stand and it's cheap. I need a regular desk mount because I am living in university housing and can't drill holes. The desk I use doesn't have much of a fringe for desk mount monitors either.