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So you would rather have an LG screen now?

So I got my replacement unit and feel like I won the "Screen Lottery".

Hoping that I would get an LG, I did! Thank you! Bright and white. Fyi, this is a 2.3, 512GB, 16MB, 750 model. No IR and backlight bleeding. I am mostly convinced that most screens that have a yellowish tint will be a Samsung.
 
Texxy said:
Well a big problem now is for the people who bought the higher spec w/750 seem to only be coming with the samsung screens.

EDIT...NVM LG is out there as well
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I see your edit but just wanted to confirm.. I have the 750m and it has an LG screen.
 
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is there any way how to determine which screen I have on Late 2013 MBPr? because this old command does not work, it just return Color LCD without anything else, thx
 
ducatiti said:
As a previous owner of 2012 and 2013 15"' retinas, having owned and tried both Samsung and LG screens, I think that there is an easy way to check which one you have.

All the Samsung's I've owned lacked the brightness even at full settings. With the LG, having it at full brightness will be bothersome. So in other words, the LG screens are significantly brighter and whiter than Samsung screens.

Please feel free to confirm or negate my statement above if you have both brands of screens. P
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I had 4 screens on my 2012 15" rmbp. 3 Samsungs, and 1 LG. The first two Samsungs were brighter than the LG. The LG had richer colors though. The third Samsung, which just got installed last week, was the dimmest and had a stronger yellow tinge than all the ones in the past.

My new 13" seems to have a Samsung with some yellow crap in the btm left corner, but the brightness is good. My sister's 2012 13" has much better colors, and is brighter. I suspect it's an LG.

So, 6 months ago I would have told you the Samsungs are much better, now I don't really know and would be inclined to favor the LGs, though I'd be worried about IR. Not that the Samsungs seem to be much more reliable, I've had 2 of them die on me with dead pixels in less than a year...
 
I have had both screens in the span of a week. One was returned for different reasons than this but the LG was just about perfect and the samsung I have right now is right there with it . Maybe a touch more light falloff and i mean a touch. BTW I do not get the brighter than the other one . They both are far past a luminance value of about 120 which is standard levels. Thats about 4 clicks down
 
Have the higher end new 15 inch here with LG display.

Perfectly uniform in colour, had a test pattern on for a couple of hours and found no image retention.

I then used my ColorMunki, the difference between the ColorMunki created profile and Apple's "Color LCD" standard profile was almost identical.
 
15" Late-2013 16 GB with an LG LP154WT1-SJE1 display and the whites are a muddy brown even after calibration with a Spyder4Elite.
 
This is a dumb question, but is the following LG display an old one but still being produced? LP154WT1-SJE1

Isn't this the one that had issues from early 2013?
 
Samsung screen here on a 2.3...it's as far as I can tell, flawless. No retention, no yellowing. Quite happy with it.
 
Lg a019 :d
 

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I'm late to the party about the whole LG/Samsung screens, so can someone fill me in about the problems which are causing (yellowing tints, bleeding, etc).

Which is 'better' to have?
 
early 2013 rmbp 15

I have a LG screen and it is pretty good !!
 

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alphaod said:
Yes and no.

It's a utility, but it depends on a hardware calibrator.

The utility lets you customize the profile, but ultimately the hardware calibrator actually makes sure your colors are accurate.

For printing you would need to also calibrate your printer as well.

If you doing photography, invest in a color checker passport.
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Bleh... this is a little misleading in that it leaves out a lot of detail, especially the printer part. The printer part doesn't mention the need for a print viewer like a normalicht to view the images. You have to remember that the color temperature reflected by the white paper has to match the color temperature of the monitor for a good match. There's also the issue of minimizing parallel reflections, as you don't want hot spots in the reflected light. The colorimeter is still limited. It just applies a matrix profile to the ICC profile, adjusting certain points in the instructions fed to the framebuffer. It's not exact, and you won't know every possible color. In the end the factory calibration still matters. I agree about the color checker passport if you need a solid reference. Oh and regarding printers, it's also a complex topic. There are things that just profile the printer at a given time, and there are of course RIP applications like EFI or GMG (windows only but one of the best) that attempt to linearize (not exactly accurate but it's how they describe it) the printer output.

I just wanted to mention that it's not any one thing, and it's possible to spend quite a lot depending on the level of control desired. Even then if it has to go out for color separation, send a reference.
 
ducatiti said:
Yellowish and uneven color on the bottom left hand corner? How's the backlight bleed?
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Not that I can tell. Looks better if you sit further away, iPhone I took it on was 30cm from the screen, it will look brighter in the middle as the corners are at an angle. It looks perfectly even, no bleed not that I can tell.

I looked at a couple of rMBPs in Apple Store and Blacks. They were yellow in the corners.
 
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