led vs. lcd monitors

[Preston Hagar]

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net> wrote:
> Yes, I know that the image-forming technology is the same, but perhaps the
> folks who make LED sets use fewer pixels? I couldn't understand why
> what I was seeing was true, but it was.  It was mostly noticeable with
> black text on a white background, which is much of what I use a computer
> for.
>
> --doug

Did you check any of the settings on the displays?  Usually, on most
monitors, you can either manually set the brightness,contrast,etc. or
they will have preset "modes" like "movie mode", "text mode" and
"gaming mode".  Switching between these modes or manually adjusting
the brightness and contrast can greatly change the way a monitor
looks.  Also, depending on the in-store display, they often have a
bank of 4-5 monitors running off of 1 PC/source with a splitter
splitting out the signal.  Depending on the line a monitor is on or
what connection it is in the splitter can change the quality of the
picture (same goes for TVs as well).  Some stores (Best buy, Fry's,
CompUsa, possibly others) will often have some monitors setup in a row
and then some directly attached to one computer.  The ones attached
directly to one computer give you the truest sense of how you can get
the monitor to look.

You might go back in and try to fiddle with the settings if you didn't
before, or try to determine if they are being split out and that is
causing the loss of picture quality.  I know back in the day (about 8
years ago) when I worked at Best Buy often our best TVs looked the
worst because they were at the end of the aisle and the signal had
been split about 3-4 times from the source by the time it got to them.