[ltp] T40p, active matrix 14.1" TFT ?

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Andr=E9 Wyrwa wrote:

> > How is the LCD screen on the T40p ?
> > The specs of the machine only state that it's an 14.1" screen,
> > active matrix TFT, but aren't all current LCDs active matrix TFTs ?
> > The specs I would be interested in, is brightness, contrast and how
> > the screen is visible with respect to different viewing angles.
> >
> > Any people want to comment on that ?
>
> Don't have experiences with that but i recently read on the ibm page
> that the R50p models have a new display generation that IBM markets as
> FlexiView, with 25-50% more brightness and 170=C2=B0 viewing angle.
>
> I'm a bit unsatisfied still with my T23s display, it lacks contrast in
> the range of very bright colors (very light grey is hard to distinguish
> from white). Seems to be a common thing for IBM TFTs, my former 570 had
> the same problem. My NEC standalone TFT (quite old one) is better in
> this matter. But maybe the T40s are already better?


It seems like to be a color profile problem.  This things are
supposed to be fixed using Gamma correction.

behdad

> Andre.
>
> PS: Could it be that IBM is dropping the A series? Would make sens to me
> since i always asked myself where the point of having R, G and A series,
> which all have kind of the same target. The IBM page doesn't list the a
> series anymore in the model list (only on the navi frame) and if you
> click on it they say there are no models available.