Okay, so I bought
this monitor to replace the one I've had with the failing backlight. Did some research beforehand - it had good reviews and it had the 16: 10 aspect ratio I wanted at a decent price.
Big problem. It is WAY too fucking bright. I am at 30% brightness and my eyes still hurt. Also, the colour is skewed yellow, but
also too cold (so changing the red/green colour sliders to emphasize yellow makes the cold/warm problem worse and reducing the blue slider makes the yellowing problem worse.
Now, I suspect that this all boils down to the colour temperature of the screen being set too high. Default for many LCDs is 9500k and colour looks better 6500k or even 5000k. Unfortunately, my screen's firmware does not seem to have any place to manually set this. It doesn't say anything in the manual, I can't find anything in Win 7, hell, it doesn't even say anything on the manufacturer's website.
At this point it looks like I am going to be stuck returning this thing and sucking on the restocking fee unless anyone else has any suggestions. I am fucking pissed right now. God knows not a single fucking thing I ever buy seems to work right, no matter how bloody much research I do beforehand.
I have searched any number of phrase combinations on google for hours, colour temperature, Samsung, the model number windows 7, blah blah. Samsung also has a pile of little screen-widgets that I tried installing without success.
EDIT: The most annoying thing is that
this review of a different monitor shows screenshots of a very similar firmware, only that version actually has a full colour temperature menu. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF