Is this level of backlight bleed acceptable?

[Cakefish]

I returned my first AOC AG271QG IPS monitor because of bright pixels and backlight bleed. I've just received a second today and sure enough... backlight bleed. However, I can't see any dead or bright pixels on this one so that's an improvement.

Here's some photos I took just now of the backlight bleed:

Here's an image at 100% brightness.[i64.tinypic.com]
And here's one at 50% brightness.[i65.tinypic.com]
And finally here's one at 0% brightness.[i66.tinypic.com]

Is the above bleed normal for this panel? This one is no different to the first unit I tried (both manufactured in February 2018 but bought from different retailers).

Is this a worthy trade off to make or should I go just give up and go with the Dell S2417DG TN monitor?

[CordisDia]

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İlk olarak DocGangrena tarafından gönderildi:

some people who lives in primitive countries like mine have no nerves to sending back IPS monitor due to slow and high shipping costs . If you live in normal country, try your luck little bit more . My friend have ultrawide IPS Acer with no backlight bleed at all(i've seen it with my own eyes) - he bought him in Slovenia althought ...

It cost me £45 ($61) to send the first one back so safe to say that I live in a primitive country! I hope I won't have to pay this time around as this one was bought from Amazon instead and their return policy is quite good usually.

Trouble is, Amazon have completely ran out of stock of this monitor. I can only choose an option to refund in their return centre, there's no option to send me a replacement. And after the experience of dealing with the return policy of the first retailer I don't trust anyone but Amazon in that regard.

So you definitely think it should be returned?

Well,in that case ... my advice would be to return it , ask for refund ... Asus and Acer have basicly same monitors as your AOC,but they cost little bit more ... There is also 4th company which makes very similiar monitors like yours( 27 inches,IPS,144(165) hz,G-Sync,2540x1440) ,but i can't remember it's name

[upcoast]

İlk olarak cSg|mc-Hotsauce tarafından gönderildi:

Didn't we already have this thread?

Yes we did... https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/11/1696045708655797142/

:qr:

LOL, keep posting until you get the answer you want I guess.

[[☥] - CJ -]

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Didn't we already have this thread?

Yes we did... https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/11/1696045708655797142/

:qr:

Or

That was the 1st monitor he had

And now this is the 2nd

[upcoast]

Regardless he should ditch the 2nd monitor too and move on to a different manufacturer.

Ps, it's all a continuation of the 1st post where it could've been added as a simple "faulty replacement showed up".

[zombie cat]

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oh thats pretty bad. i took this from the aoc website:

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so i think the panel you have only has a year warranty. i could be wrong.

http://us.aoc.com/warranty.php#warry

Thanks but it's 3 years in Europe (I live in the UK). But that's kind of irrelevant to my current situation as I don't need to claim though warranty as I can return for full refund within 14 days of purchase (mandated by EU consumer law).

This is the second unit I've tried and I'm not going to bother trying for a third one. My patience has ran out.

If this one goes back I'm going to go for an alternative model (Dell S2417DG).

I just don't know which is the lesser of the two evils: TN image quality or IPS backlight bleed?

ips is definitely superior. but it seems like aoc has poor quality testing. LG, asus, benq and samsung have good alternative ips panels. but definitely ask them to test before you take it home.

[Cakefish]

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Or

That was the 1st monitor he had

And now this is the 2nd

Bingo!

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Regardless he should ditch the 2nd monitor too and move on to a different manufacturer.

Ps, it's all a continuation of the 1st post where it could've been added as a simple "faulty replacement showed up".

I rather not revive ancient, dead threads as I thought that was against forum rules?

I can’t go for any other monitor as ASUS, Acer, Viewsonic all have stands that are too deep to fit on my desk. This one has a much shallower profile and that’s why it is the only option I have (I can’t replace desk).

İlk olarak DocGangrena tarafından gönderildi:

Well,in that case ... my advice would be to return it , ask for refund ... Asus and Acer have basicly same monitors as your AOC,but they cost little bit more ... There is also 4th company which makes very similiar monitors like yours( 27 inches,IPS,144(165) hz,G-Sync,2540x1440) ,but i can't remember it's name

Yeah, thanks for the help. That last one is Viewsonic. Unfortunately I have looked at all of those other models and their stands are too deep to fit on my desk and I don’t want to get a 3rd party VESA mount. AOC is the only one that would fit (desk is non-replaceable).

[presto668]

Wait, why are you asking other people to judge your monitor. The only thing that matters is if it's acceptable to *you*.

[Cakefish]

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Wait, why are you asking other people to judge your monitor. The only thing that matters is if it's acceptable to *you*.

Well it's not really acceptable to me, but if this is better than average for these monitors then I'll just have to live with it. If this is deemed worse than average then I'll return it. I haven't seen enough of these monitors to know what the 'average' level of bleed is. Hence why I'm asking the community!