If you detect ghosting on the U3014, you can push a button to launch an LCD Conditioning routine to get rid of the problem. This usually isn’t a permanent problem-since LCD technology, unlike old-school CRTs, doesn’t rely on phosphors-but it can be distracting.
When a static image remains on the screen for a long period of time, a ghost image can remain behind.
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Finally, you can perform in-house calibrations using Dell’s UltraSharp Color Calibration Solution software with an X-Rite i1Display Pro colorimeter (the hardware is sold separately).Īll LCDs, including IPS panels, are somewhat susceptible to image retention. You can also manually adjust color-temperature values from the standard 6500K down to 5000K or up to 10000k, and you can independently adjust the hue, saturation, and sharpness.
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Photographs looked better, although skin tones looked too red, and a piece of orange furniture from my living room shifted toward red on the U3014.ĭell’s UltraSharp U3014 is a bright and beautiful display with a host of video inputs, a USB hub, and a media card reader.Īfter consulting with Dell, I configured the U3014 to use the Adobe RGB color space, which provides a narrower gamut, and then Adobe sRGB, which uses an even narrower color space. An orange hat from DisplayMate’s test photos, for instance, look bright red on Dell’s monitor, while objects that looked lime green on other displays looked as though they’d been doused with a fluorescent-green highlighter pen. To me, the U3014 rendered some colors so oversaturated that they looked fluorescent. The panel on which the U3014 is based is a “wide gamut” model, which means it’s capable of delivering more colors than you might be accustomed to seeing. The display is calibrated at the factory for both color and brightness uniformity, but the U3014 offers a comprehensive set of onscreen menus if you’d like to make your own tweaks. The display does not have built-in speakers, but you can attach Dell’s optional speaker bar to the bottom of the unit. This model sports two downstream USB 3.0 ports on its left side, along with a handy memory card reader, and two more downstream USB 3.0 ports (plus an upstream port) in the back.
There is an input-scan button, but you must engage it by pushing a button.ĭell typically includes a four-port USB hub on its professional displays.
I was also surprised to discover that the monitor doesn’t scan all of its inputs on power-up, so I had to manually select the input I was using the first time. DVI and HDMI can’t be used together, nor can the two types of DisplayPort connections (DisplayPort In is used only in daisy-chain scenarios). The U3014 also supports picture-in-picture mode, but only with certain combinations of connections.