Calibrated FHD screen W530 vs IPS

[del_psi]

I've used the calibration file that was posted on the W530 Owner's forum thread but the colors are still off when compared to my S-IPS/H-IPS panel LCD HDTV.

Is the matte coating making the colors inaccurate (e.g. dirty whites)?

Also is lenovo going to go forwards instead of backwards?

[baiii]

Using calibration file doesn't mean your screen is calibrated.

[del_psi]

Using calibration file doesn't mean your screen is calibrated.

So how do i get it to look as good as the IPS panel LCD displays that I have used?

Buy a $300 color calibrator?

[baiii]

How do you know your IPS panel is calibrated. Define look as good?
You are not going to get the viewing angle of a IPS but you can get the color accuracy after calibration.

Display Calibration Sensor Capabilities

[del_psi]

My IPS panels show more details in the images and whites are white instead of greyish.

[baiii]

Well S/HIPS can be 8 or 10bit and the TN is just 6bit, so there is some technical difference. But if you want them to look similar (color wise), a calibrator is your best bet.

[Kaso]

TN and IPS panels have different characteristics.

I'd rather focus on properly calibrating the TN panel (to optimize its performance within its salient characteristics) rather than making it behave like an IPS panel. That is, don't use any IPS screen as a model to "push" your W530 FHD screen by AUO.

In my subjective opinion, the AUO B156HW01 V.7 (glossy, used by Dell) shows better than the AUO B156HW01 V.4 (matte, used by Lenovo) because of the anti-glare coating on the latter.

If you need IPS performance in a mobile workstation, consider a Dell Precision or an HP EliteBook.

[Colonel O'Neill]

Try a different color profile? Whites look fine on mine.

You could force more detail to show up by squeezing the image colorspace into the screen's representable colorspace, albeit at a loss of color accuracy.

[del_psi]

I guess the FHD screen that lenovo uses is overrated. I'll guess I'll keep the W530 for now since I got a good price on it.

Try a different color profile? Whites look fine on mine.

You could force more detail to show up by squeezing the image colorspace into the screen's representable colorspace, albeit at a loss of color accuracy.

Compare your whites to a semi glossy or regular glossy IPS panel screen in person.

[baiii]

In a market where low gamut and poor contrast/viewing angle screen dominates, I don't think it is overrated. It give the best gamut/contrast/nit on a laptop panel w/o breaking the bank (retina, dreamcolor, etc). The new slim IPS model beat the b156hw01 v4/v7 in viewing angel but thats pretty much it.

The v7 is nice but a eye killer ... (using it now on my dv6z, I will say almost double the strain compare to using my matte external, 1.2x-1.3x compare to my old crap 768p) The fact it is not calibrated so the gamma may be off add on to the problem xD And I have glasses w.o all the fancy anti-reflect xyz.

Edit:

True enough the white on matte display seem dirty(red/green/grey color showing up), but that's the problem with the nature of matte/anti glare coating screen. When I use my cheap eips for game/video, it doesn't show at all.