The guinea pig, http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=FPD1830-1B:
Wet shop towels. Use distilled water with a spray bottle. Towels should be greater than damp, but not dripping wet. Test for matte film removal was for 2, 4 and 6 hour intervals. At 2 hours, the film was still too stiff for proper removal. At 4 hours, it was much more pliable but not where I would want it for a quality removal. Previous users have noted around six hours for film removal. I would concur, 5-6 hours will work well. Although the film took some pressure to remove at 4 hours, there was no trace of adhesive left behind. Roller was used to make sure shop towels have great surface contact and to remove any trapped air under the towels.
Matte film scored and removed from the majority of the panel for comparison.
In the below image, the monitor is on with a black background. The quality of the blacks and area with and without the film are apparent. The far corners have the polarizer removed. The polarizer is adhered to the LCD glass with very strong adhesive! Even using a 400 F heat gun it was extremely hard to remove and usually came up in slivers. Any damage to the polarizer will ruin the monitor. Without both intact layers of the polarizer, you will get no image (hence the white area of the corners).
Polarized versus non. I wish we could get the great whites of the non-polarized area. But that would render LCD technology inert.
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Color image:
The film that has ruined many a great display
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Surprisingly, this particular model doesn't even have that strong of a matte film. Surely not as bad as those found on a lot of LG's IPS displays. You can actually see through this film fairly well. Others I have seen are more difficult to see through.
Now I have heard a lot of reports of users in the past damaging this polarization layer by "touching it" or cleaning it in some way. I was unable to reproduce this as can be shown in this video:
I put a great amount of pressure while going over the edge of the matte and onto the polarizer. I could not get any damage to either surface working it very hard. This polarizer layer is like a sheet of plastic, has a gloss feel to it and is very durable. Not sure if those in the past that have so-called damaged their polarizer was of a different material/design, or the damage in fact was not the polarizer but another layer or aspect of the display.
Below is a video showing the dramatic image quality difference with and without the matte film. I think it speaks for itself why I prefer glossy displays. Perceived blacks, color, and contrast are all improved. The colors "pop" and are more vibrant with gloss and the display no longer has a washed-out, dull appearance. You also remove the annoying "sparkle" of whites you get with matte film. At the end of the clip you can see the corner of the polarizer layer and it's rotation to block light.
Next up on the chopping block is the 144 Hz 1ms Asus VG248QE! World's fastest LCD (along with sister BenQ XL2411T) combined with a dramatic image quality improvement inbound...
Wet shop towels. Use distilled water with a spray bottle. Towels should be greater than damp, but not dripping wet. Test for matte film removal was for 2, 4 and 6 hour intervals. At 2 hours, the film was still too stiff for proper removal. At 4 hours, it was much more pliable but not where I would want it for a quality removal. Previous users have noted around six hours for film removal. I would concur, 5-6 hours will work well. Although the film took some pressure to remove at 4 hours, there was no trace of adhesive left behind. Roller was used to make sure shop towels have great surface contact and to remove any trapped air under the towels.
Matte film scored and removed from the majority of the panel for comparison.
In the below image, the monitor is on with a black background. The quality of the blacks and area with and without the film are apparent. The far corners have the polarizer removed. The polarizer is adhered to the LCD glass with very strong adhesive! Even using a 400 F heat gun it was extremely hard to remove and usually came up in slivers. Any damage to the polarizer will ruin the monitor. Without both intact layers of the polarizer, you will get no image (hence the white area of the corners).
Polarized versus non. I wish we could get the great whites of the non-polarized area. But that would render LCD technology inert.
Color image:
The film that has ruined many a great display
Surprisingly, this particular model doesn't even have that strong of a matte film. Surely not as bad as those found on a lot of LG's IPS displays. You can actually see through this film fairly well. Others I have seen are more difficult to see through.
Now I have heard a lot of reports of users in the past damaging this polarization layer by "touching it" or cleaning it in some way. I was unable to reproduce this as can be shown in this video:
I put a great amount of pressure while going over the edge of the matte and onto the polarizer. I could not get any damage to either surface working it very hard. This polarizer layer is like a sheet of plastic, has a gloss feel to it and is very durable. Not sure if those in the past that have so-called damaged their polarizer was of a different material/design, or the damage in fact was not the polarizer but another layer or aspect of the display.
Below is a video showing the dramatic image quality difference with and without the matte film. I think it speaks for itself why I prefer glossy displays. Perceived blacks, color, and contrast are all improved. The colors "pop" and are more vibrant with gloss and the display no longer has a washed-out, dull appearance. You also remove the annoying "sparkle" of whites you get with matte film. At the end of the clip you can see the corner of the polarizer layer and it's rotation to block light.
Next up on the chopping block is the 144 Hz 1ms Asus VG248QE! World's fastest LCD (along with sister BenQ XL2411T) combined with a dramatic image quality improvement inbound...
