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U3417W Low Contrast? Bad Review by Digital Trends
Specs show that the U3417W has a contrast ratio of 1000:1 yet when Digital Trends review it they said it only had a 380:1 ratio. I mean I know that usually those kind of specs are over exaggerated a bit but that difference seems a bit much. Plus they mention that the U3415W, the model that precedes this one, has a contrast ration of 730:1. Is this review legit or did they mess up somehow when determining the contrast ratio?
www.digitaltrends.com/monitor-reviews/dell-u3417w-review
DELL-Jesse L
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December 15th, 2016 10:00
Phreedom,
We cannot validate their Spyder5 calibration results. I cannot find any other reviewer validating their testing results.
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December 15th, 2016 14:00
Also, the reviewer had to change Display- Uniformity Compensation to Off before doing their test. My guess is that they did not do this.
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December 15th, 2016 16:00
Yeah I'm guessing they did something wrong because it just doesn't make sense that the contrast ratio would be that low. I've had mine for a week now and nothing is indicating to me that the contrast ratio is that low then again I am not an expert on such matters.
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December 18th, 2016 23:00
Just picked up this monitor for my son couple of days ago. Have to wait till xmas to try this out. I did got a little concerned about that review, please post reply if anyone can validate the results. If contrast ratio really is that low, I have no choise but to return this.