LED Monitor with smoked overlay???

[Scotty]

I have been using a NEC Multisync SuperBrite (21" CRT)  for quite a while, and it does a great job with Mame, especially vector games.  I am borrowing a 25" Samsung LED, while it **IS** brite as hell, the blacks are just not black like on a CRT.  I had read that a LED looks better than LCD because the brights are brighter and the blacks are supposedly pretty black.  I beg to differ.  I have a 20" Samsung on another machine in the same room, and do not notice much of a difference between the blacks on both of them.  If I open a white web page, with a lot of text on it, the LED is **WAY** brighter than the LCD.  But the blacks are still back lit and it shows.

My question is....  Has anyone here ever used a tinted/smoked piece of glass or plexi??  As bright as this thing is, I know the colors would shine right through, and I see know reason why darker glass would not mask out the grayish background that should be black.  Anyone tried this?  Thoughts??

 

[lilshawn]

But the blacks are still back lit and it shows.

it shouldn't be. the way the technology is designed, black would be an absence of light being emitted from the LED pixels. if they are still emitting, likely something is out of adjustment. perhaps a "dynamic contrast"??

[MonMotha]

The "LED" monitors are not actually LEDs.  They're just LCDs with a (super super bright) LED backlight rather than CCFL.  The quality of the LCD itself still determines the black level, and they vary highly.  As usual, you tend to roughly get what you pay for.