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Pixel 2 XL NEW SATURATED Display Mode Nov UPDATE - Comparison vs NOTE 8 vs Pixel XL

Google releases November security patch that includes new display color modes (Boosted, Natural, Saturated) for the Pixel 2 XL to help with the screen color saturation issues/problems. Update includes fixes for screen burn-in and the ear piece clicking noises. Love that Google added this options, in that way people that want accurate colors can use the "Natural" mode, those custom to Samsung's "saturated" (candy) colors, can now pick "Saturated" mode. All about having choices.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omu5r2v941A
Update:
In case someone hasn't got the update YET.... I just posted a step by step guide on how to sideload the OTA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTfgOeNfQqE

Just got the update, loving it !
Colors are much much better . To my eyes at least.

Do you guys experiencing any differences regarding the blue shift after the update?

Redrockzz said:
Do you guys experiencing any differences regarding the blue shift after the update?
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That's caused by the polarized layer afaik, not sure how saturation would change that

I couldn't really notice a difference... Will see when I get the phone and update is applied.
But I was happy with the colours when I looked at it in the shops..
Wasn't so impressed with the blue screen off axis. 1 was spot on, 2 were shockingly bad.
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I don't like the saturated mode, colors are too bright and white is more red now. Sticking with the original boosted mode, I like the more natural colors.
Oh, and no help to the blue shift since that is hardware based.

Man I can't wait for kcal.
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Looks terrible to me. Yellow whites and colors are extremely off to me. Boosted is my go to.

Yup after using the phone in saturated mode for two days I'm back with the boosted mode. Saturated mode is REALLY saturated. I find it even more saturated than the Note 8.

Too hard to tell in a video, but in person saturated makes everything pop like it's a Samsung panel. Pretty nice, I love it when I'm not in the mood for the most accurate colors.
I definitely appreciate the update Google.

I've found that the saturated mode is great when navigating android, but when looking at real life pictures, boosted is best. I think we need a slider to fine tune it to our own likings. I think we need a little more saturation than boosted, but less than saturated.
Has anyone else noticed that when you look at a picture and angle it for the blue tint it actually looks better? I took a picture of my daughter and the saturation makes her face look red, but when i tilt it, the extra blue overlayed on top of it looks almost perfect!

PMad said:
I've found that the saturated mode is great when navigating android, but when looking at real life pictures, boosted is best. I think we need a slider to fine tune it to our own likings. I think we need a little more saturation than boosted, but less than saturated.
Has anyone else noticed that when you look at a picture and angle it for the blue tint it actually looks better? I took a picture of my daughter and the saturation makes her face look red, but when i tilt it, the extra blue overlayed on top of it looks almost perfect!
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I think it has helped the blue tint look better on mine too. Mine wasn't terrible to begin with but on boosted mode it looks even better. I would love to see a slider too like on the Note 8 I had. That would please many people.

Misterxtc said:
I think it has helped the blue tint look better on mine too. Mine wasn't terrible to begin with but on boosted mode it looks even better. I would love to see a slider too like on the Note 8 I had. That would please many people.
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I agree! With saturated mode i think they are also changing the color temperature because there's sortof on dark orangish or reddish tint over everything now where before it was more of a bluish tint. We need the slider!

PMad said:
I've found that the saturated mode is great when navigating android, but when looking at real life pictures, boosted is best. I think we need a slider to fine tune it to our own likings. I think we need a little more saturation than boosted, but less than saturated.
Has anyone else noticed that when you look at a picture and angle it for the blue tint it actually looks better? I took a picture of my daughter and the saturation makes her face look red, but when i tilt it, the extra blue overlayed on top of it looks almost perfect!
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I noticed this too, saturated mode is good but it is a bit too red for me and the colors do make pictures look unnatural but I managed to mitigate some of that with KCAL using root and snoke kernel. I turned down the red and green a bit so now it has a blue hue closer to the natural setting. I also turned down the saturation a bit.

Directly from Google; Further enhancements will be included in our planned December software update and on an ongoing basis thereafter. Our goal is for your Pixel phone to get more useful and delightful over time.
So maybe we will get a slider after all? We'll find out soon enough.

I still like boosted the best.

In case someone hasn't got the update YET.... I just posted a step by step guide on how to sideload the OTA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTfgOeNfQqE

I'm loving saturated mode. Besides the whites being more reddish instead of blue it's pretty close to what my OG Pixel XL was.

If you guys want to know what really colors should look like either buy or find a monitor with 100% coverage on sRGB range and which are properly factory calibrated.
http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/monitor-colour-spaces-adobergb-srgb-2949078
I am 100% the pixel or for that matter any phone out there lacks realistic representation of colors, and therefore images.
Whites should be at 6500k.
Also be wary of your photos you take, what you see could be severely oversaturated but in reality its probably not so good or vivid.
To this date, there is no phone with realistic colors.
Cost and people being addicted to neon colors could be reasons.

So is boosted the exact same as "vivid colors" or is it a little bit better?

Color saturation & accuracy

If you're colorblind, please disregard this thread. Rate this thread to express how you deem the color saturation and accuracy of the Xiaomi Mi 8's display. A higher rating indicates that you think that color accuracy is very high and saturation is excellent.
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Yesterday i got a mi 8 6/128 and i found for now 2 issues till now the first one is that when i want to take slow motion video it flickers a red light like hell, the second one is the screen itself when holding the phone and looking at it straight in front the color of the screen seems a bit yellowish also the colors are a bit under saturated when i see the screen from a side view even from bottom or from any side the colors pops out and the white backround is white as it should be i think it has something to do with the front glass that covers the panel and i don't know if there is a way to fix that, i use cool color reproduction on settings but it still annoys me.

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Yesterday i got a mi 8 6/128 and i found for now 2 issues till now the first one is that when i want to take slow motion video it flickers a red light like hell, the second one is the screen itself when holding the phone and looking at it straight in front the color of the screen seems a bit yellowish also the colors are a bit under saturated when i see the screen from a side view even from bottom or from any side the colors pops out and the white backround is white as it should be i think it has something to do with the front glass that covers the panel and i don't know if there is a way to fix that, i use cool color reproduction on settings but it still annoys me.
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I haven't noticed any screen issues on mine, but i have taken a lot of slow motion videos (both in 120/240fps and in 1080/720p) and i've not seen a red light at all.

bad-3_j said:
Yesterday i got a mi 8 6/128 and i found for now 2 issues till now the first one is that when i want to take slow motion video it flickers a red light like hell, the second one is the screen itself when holding the phone and looking at it straight in front the color of the screen seems a bit yellowish also the colors are a bit under saturated when i see the screen from a side view even from bottom or from any side the colors pops out and the white backround is white as it should be i think it has something to do with the front glass that covers the panel and i don't know if there is a way to fix that, i use cool color reproduction on settings but it still annoys me.
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Regarding that yellowish thingy i just set my display color to cool since the default is a bjt ywllowish for me too

Color saturation & accuracy

If you're colorblind, please disregard this thread. Rate this thread to express how you deem the color saturation and accuracy of the Huawei Mate 20's display. A higher rating indicates that you think that color accuracy is very high and saturation is excellent.
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Hi, has anyone noticed that the half bottom of the mate 20 display has yellow tint compared to the half top? A Huawei warranty agent had already checked my mate 20. And he said that i could exchange for a new one if it does not have the same problem as my old mate 20 had. I have watched some Youtube mate 20 unboxing clips and I thought some of them had that yellow tint issue too. My two previous LCD phones have light bleeding but not the yellow tint like this. How about yours? I'm a little worried right now!

zaqwdcvfr said:
Hi, has anyone noticed that the half bottom of the mate 20 display has yellow tint compared to the half top? A Huawei warranty agent had already checked my mate 20. And he said that i could exchange for a new one if it does not have the same problem as my old mate 20 had. I have watched some Youtube mate 20 unboxing clips and I thought some of them had that yellow tint issue too. My two previous LCD phones have light bleeding but not the yellow tint like this. How about yours? I'm a little worried right now!
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Can you give a photo. My mate 20 no screen problem.

nourezizi said:
Can you give a photo. My mate 20 no screen problem.
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sr but it's very hard to notice that yellow tint by looking at the pictures, in spite of seeing it very clearly with bare eyes at top and bottom of the screen with all-white apps or pictures. And I have exchanged it for the new one already.:fingers-crossed:

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Can you give a photo. My mate 20 no screen problem.
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In the first picture the defect is exagerated , the second one is a iphone XR wich seems to have the same problem and the third is the mate 20 original picture.

I think huawei lcd screen technology is bad, the new exchange phone of me still has that yellow tint just not that much like before. Do you know why is that happen?

Yes, same goes to me. I visit service center once and talk with the technician. Seem the problem occur is quite rare in my country. (malaysia). But, he ask me to keep update if the yellow tint become worst.

I have the same a slight warm white on the bottom, and a slight bleed, sometimes is difficult to see, it depends of light and brightness conditions.
So I was thinking in exchange it, so what is the odds of getting one better?

thariq06 said:
Yes, same goes to me. I visit service center once and talk with the technician. Seem the problem occur is quite rare in my country. (malaysia). But, he ask me to keep update if the yellow tint become worst.
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Why didn't you go for replacement, if is uncommon the odds would be great to get one perfect.
This is what I'm asking my self is it common this issues or very random.

PVRP said:
Why didn't you go for replacement, if is uncommon the odds would be great to get one perfect.
This is what I'm asking my self is it common this issues or very random.
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That is what im thinking but currently they still fixing mate 20 pro bleeding issue. So, i don't think its a good time to replace due to waiting period will be longer than it should. ???

apparently the phone panel has a strong yellowish tint and to remedy that choose vivid cool .. this will make whites whiter not yellowish .. with colors set to vivid cool i still do notice the yellow tint in the lower screen and bleeding light but they are very minimal and i am called a pixel peeper .. at least this will make whites whiter not yellowish
but the other problem is the over-saturated red color .. not only that when you tilt the screen and videos is full screen contrast is enhanced and colors becomes over-saturated automatically and this makes a lot of videos looks overly saturated in landscape mode

I haven't noticed that. Seems perfect to me.

Little update, I'm in a second unity, and the screen is more uniform, but white is more a warm them the first, even trying to compensate with vivid setting and adding more blue, the color temperature is diferent.
Regarding the backlight bleeding is less visible also than the first unity.
So I think is kind of lottery having a perfect screen.

Minimum brightness

You don't want to give your significant other yet another reason to yell at you while you're reading XDA in bed. Rate this thread to express what you think of the ASUS ROG Phone II's display minimum dimness. A higher rating indicates that the display can get extremely dim, ideal for reading in very dark environments.
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I am quite concerned about some of the comments I saw on JD.com . People say the screen is yellowish, uneven coloring and grainy which gets even worse when the brightness is low. Can anyone confirm this here?

zed011 said:
I am quite concerned about some of the comments I saw on JD.com . People say the screen is yellowish, uneven coloring and grainy which gets even worse when the brightness is low. Can anyone confirm this here?
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My friend says screen is great

At low brightness? No strange effects on gray color?

zed011 said:
I am quite concerned about some of the comments I saw on JD.com . People say the screen is yellowish, uneven coloring and grainy which gets even worse when the brightness is low. Can anyone confirm this here?
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In terms of brightness I would say it's average at best. The screen is very dim my current brightness slider is set at 80% and that is just to navigate conformabley. But I would recommend a 85 to 90% settings.
The screen isn't yellowish quite the opposite actually in comparison with my 1st generation ROG, colors are even I would say and no grain.

Rashad83 said:
In terms of brightness I would say it's average at best. The screen is very dim my current brightness slider is set at 80% and that is just to navigate conformabley. But I would recommend a 85 to 90% settings.
The screen isn't yellowish quite the opposite actually in comparison with my 1st generation ROG, colors are even I would say and no grain.
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Hopefully it's just a software issue and will be resolved shortly. Hell, it couldn't be worse than the OP6T. And the ROG2 has around 200 nits more than the 6T. That fukn thing, you can't see **** on if its bright out. Overall, I would think the extra 2,000 mah would compensate for the higher brightness til its fixed.

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Hopefully it's just a software issue and will be resolved shortly. Hell, it couldn't be worse than the OP6T. And the ROG2 has around 200 nits more than the 6T. That fukn thing, you can't see **** on if its bright out. Overall, I would think the extra 2,000 mah would compensate for the higher brightness til its fixed.
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But even if the brightness slider is set to 100% shouldn't consume much more battery if the screen is still dim...right?
By the way, can anyone let me know how bright is it compared to Razer Phone 1?

el4nimal said:
But even if the brightness slider is set to 100% shouldn't consume much more battery if the screen is still dim...right?
By the way, can anyone let me know how bright is it compared to Razer Phone 1?
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With 6000mah you have nothing to worry about. Reduce the refresh rate to 60 and you will get time over or equal to 10 hours standby time.
Regarding the razor phone I would think it would be much brighter because it's an LCD panel. But I am not definitive.

zed011 said:
I am quite concerned about some of the comments I saw on JD.com . People say the screen is yellowish, uneven coloring and grainy which gets even worse when the brightness is low. Can anyone confirm this here?
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just got my tencent version today. the screen max and min brightness is slightly higher than my oneplus 5. uneven colour/graininess requires you to squint with your face almost stuck to the screen so its really a nonissue. white balance is pretty on point and actually a little on the cool side tho whites are almost perfect white

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just got my tencent version today. the screen max and min brightness is slightly higher than my oneplus 5. uneven colour/graininess requires you to squint with your face almost stuck to the screen so its really a nonissue. white balance is pretty on point and actually a little on the cool side tho whites are almost perfect white
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You can also adjust color temperature and saturation in display settings. I think this screen is awesome.

R8nD0m said:
just got my tencent version today. the screen max and min brightness is slightly higher than my oneplus 5. uneven colour/graininess requires you to squint with your face almost stuck to the screen so its really a nonissue. white balance is pretty on point and actually a little on the cool side tho whites are almost perfect white
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The Tencent version is that bad?!?

Cellendril said:
The Tencent version is that bad?!?
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Umm everything I said is praise.
I did notice that graininess and very slight yellow shifting occurs at near minimum brightness but its really not easy to spot
Other than that the experience has been pretty amazing

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The Tencent version is that bad?!?
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The screen is excellent in my opinion, and while the maximum brightness isn't the brightest out there, it's perfectly adequate even in direct sunlight.

As far as low brightness goes, I felt like the lowest brightness was still a little too bright next to my wife in bed so I installed low brightness pro. If anyone else feels they want to go lower..

Got the phone. Definitely too bright at lowest so either use an app to add dark overlay to dim or wait for a software update I guess

Has red tint on dark theme grey on brightness below 50%
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At low brightness? No strange effects on gray color?
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Yes it does have a red tint on dark grey colors. Visible everywhere in apps using dark theme based on grey like google apps dark mode, the rog ui itself and any dark grey on screen.
Effect is more pronounced while using 120hz. And less on other modes.

sanurocks said:
Yes it does have a red tint on dark grey colors. Visible everywhere in apps using dark theme based on grey like google apps dark mode, the rog ui itself and any dark grey on screen.
Effect is more pronounced while using 120hz. And less on other modes.
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Same. dark greys become reddish when the brightness is lower than 40%

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Same. dark greys become reddish when the brightness is lower than 40%
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Same here, got the tencent version. Lets hope its just a software issue that future update can fix it. Im coming from s9 plus so its hard to compare the beauty of the screen.

Minimum brightness is way too high. Reference compared to nexus 5x and galaxy s7 on lowest setting. It's blinding

Rog 2 is brighter than the sun
I have a great appreciate of the capabilities of this phone, no matter what you might hear this phone has superb color rendering and there is no beating the refresh rate. When it comes to comparing how it delivers in color saturation compared to its competition all you are doing is splitting hairs... But as for its minimum brightness, well you cannot appreciate how truly bright the panel is until you are trying to write a blog post when the lights are off and your partner is asleep next to you.
With the slider all the way down its impossible to look at the screen without squinting real hard because those whites burn through your retinas and imprint on your soul. Do you like watching Netflix on your phone in bed? Not on this phone you won't. Want to read that last Facebook alert you just got after you turned the lights out? Absolutely you can do it... If you like staring at the sun that is. I sincerely hope Asus can do some sort of work around and deliver less power to the display in total darkness because light induced migrains are not fun.
Otherwise pretty good phone.

Color saturation & accuracy

If you're colorblind, please disregard this thread. Rate this thread to express how you deem the color saturation and accuracy of the OnePlus 7T's display. A higher rating indicates that you think that color accuracy is very high and saturation is excellent.
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My display is too warm in vivid, also in AMOLED gamut i have to set to max Coolest.
Seems like calibration issue, can anyone confirm?

bhavstech said:
My display is too warm in vivid, also in AMOLED gamut i have to set to max Coolest.
Seems like calibration issue, can anyone confirm?
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Yes, and it's actually not bothering me at all.
May be this is because of that blue light reduction in display.

bhavstech said:
My display is too warm in vivid, also in AMOLED gamut i have to set to max Coolest.
Seems like calibration issue, can anyone confirm?
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Yeah. The 7T has a sort of 'built in' blue light reductioner. Fiddling with the settings should quickly clear it up

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Yeah. The 7T has a sort of 'built in' blue light reductioner. Fiddling with the settings should quickly clear it up
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Can you guide me where I can turn it off? Or it is something built in hardware?

bhavstech said:
Can you guide me where I can turn it off? Or it is something built in hardware?
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Yeah ofc.
Go to Settings/Display/Screen Calibration;
Then pick 'Advanced' and choose one of the three. I chose 'Amoled Wide Gamut'
To remove the 'yellowish', go fiddle with the "Cold/Warm" bar. The colder you chose the less yellowish

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Yeah ofc.
Go to Settings/Display/Screen Calibration;
Then pick 'Advanced' and choose one of the three. I chose 'Amoled Wide Gamut'
To remove the 'yellowish', go fiddle with the "Cold/Warm" bar. The colder you chose the less yellowish
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Yes currently on that setting, still i feel the color accuracy iss off, a little more saturation and terrible gamma

The new update has even woresend the color accuracy in amoled mode, anyone else facing the same?

Are any of you guys facing the green-red tint issue on your screens? It happens below 50% brightness. It can be seen through this thread on oneplus forum - https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/oneplus-7t-display-tint-issue-uneven-oled-not-uniform.1122487/

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Are any of you guys facing the green-red tint issue on your screens? It happens below 50% brightness. It can be seen through this thread on oneplus forum - https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/oneplus-7t-display-tint-issue-uneven-oled-not-uniform.1122487/
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Do you have DC dimming on?

For those of you that have noticed the green tint, what is the best way to detect this? I have seen some posts in other forms, essentially I have had the phone for a day and I haven't seen any issues with the screen on dark mode or dim settings, just wanted to know what to look for in case of issues in 15 day return window

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For those of you that have noticed the green tint, what is the best way to detect this? I have seen some posts in other forms, essentially I have had the phone for a day and I haven't seen any issues with the screen on dark mode or dim settings, just wanted to know what to look for in case of issues in 15 day return window
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Open an incognito chrome tab and move to a dark room, the brightness slider has to be around 1/3 or less.

Color is perfect. I am not going out of my way to try to find problems.

I don't have any tint issues, but the colors seem a bit washed for an amoled. I prefer the screen on my OP5 better.

The green tint is a thing it all over forums of the oneplus community it seems like a panel defect and it is visible with night mode on grey or dark backgrounds you will notice it when you pull the notification shades down or just staring at the grey background its a greenish tint top and bottom part for me and in the center it kind of redish some other people have it just in the bottom some all over , i didnt notice it initially until later after two weeks of having the device dc dimming doesnt really work it helps a bit. oneplus representatives know about the issue and have said its normal which is not, its bad calibration of b grade panels from samsung a guess thats causing this mura effect or just plain defective panels it is a shame since this is my first oneplus device i read so much about it and was debating between the p30 pro and this one since i had a mate 10pro which never gave me any issues but well it is what it is and now ill just have to get use to it. bitter sweet opt7t

I wonder if this 'tint' issue is isolated to specific model / models? I have 2 HD1900 and whilst this is one time I am happy to be colour blind (not B&W type but cannot tell certain colours apart...) my other half is spot on on colours and has not noticed any of this...
I knew there was going to be certain advantages being colour blind :laugh:

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