Ultrasharp U2413 - Terrible Inverse Ghosting!

 

I recreate the problem easily when on most presets (especially the sRGB preset at default 50/50 brightness/contrast) by simply scrolling through webpages (including Dell's own). This issue is at its most horrific and noticeable when panning through Google maps in a browser or with any grey tones on screen that when moving appear to shift in hue and have ugly green drop shadows.

The issue seems slightly less apparent in certain modes, or when the contrast is set high (above 65%) with the ghosting appearing less saturated in colour but still apparent. However, I need to work in colour accurate space, which these work-arounds end up compromising. What adds insult to injury is that the far cheaper U2412M which is sitting next to this monitor on my desk exhibits none of the same problems.

 

Before you tell me that my unit is faulty, I have already had a replacement sent out to me by Dell UK which was manufactured in December 2013 and has the precise same issue. With all due respect, this really needs to be remedied by Dell at this point - I am a motion graphics artist and have paid a premium for a what I thought was a decent monitor for my graphic and animation work. A firmware update to mitigate this RTC overdrive or whatever is causing the inverse ghosting is what is needed.

 

As it stands, it is unacceptable for me and I will have to look at returning this product if I can't find a solution.

 

A video of the issue:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIBt6EX76Qo

This is quite heavily compressed, but I can send a .mp4 if required.