AMOLED screen - color too saturated?

[Guest ray1234]

Anyone find the i8000 AMOLED screen's color too saturated? I find it tuned as too saturated in color, especially red. The red color is so bright that pictures' colors look unreal, the faces of people all look like drunken. Any way to tune down the color?

[Guest SomeoneStoleMyYodafone]

The colour isn't too "saturated" per se. It's just the way the AMOLED display works.

An LCD's pixels are basically light filters that are fed from a central white LED light source, which itself is a blue LED whose light is converted to white light by a phosphor layer. Obviously this sort of white light will not be as rich in its individual colour components than the dedicated red, green and blue LEDs in an AMOLED display.

To add to this, AMOLED displays have a much better contrast ratio, since when a pixel is turned off it truly produces no light, unlike an LCD where there is always some leakage from the central light source.

I guess we are just too used to LCDs? I had a Touch HD before my Omnia II, and I remember unboxing my Omnia II in a dark room and seeing the green WM6.1 startup screen for the first time. I was literally mesmerised by how fresh it looked.

BTW, this is also why I love watching cartoons on the O-II... :)

Edited October 16, 2009 by SomeoneStoleMyYodafone

[Guest ray1234]

yes, I understand and actually appreciate AMOLED's ability to produce really vivid colors. The screen is great for watching cartoons, as you can really appreciate the exagerated color production in cartoons.

My point is though Samsung has tuned the color to too rich, up to a point that the red really stands out too much, and using the screen to view photos result in all normal photos having an exagerated red color cast to it.

[Guest bobobird]

My point is though Samsung has tuned the color to too rich, up to a point that the red really stands out too much, and using the screen to view photos result in all normal photos having an exagerated red color cast to it.

Same here, guess they need to better balance the saturation to what the pictures are really like.

[Guest skinnypupp]

It's quite saturated, I agree. Playing Bejeweled 2 actually hurts my eyes after a while

[Guest ray1234]

ok, I found something that would improve the color cast a bit.

Most of us using it for some time would have turned off the auto brightness as the color cast of AMOLED seems to change with brightness, so turning on the auto brightness would result in different color cast at different lighting conditions. And also because the AMOLED is so bright, most of us naturally would turn the brightness down to nearly the lowest level.

At the lowest brightness, the color tends to have a red cast. Now I turn the brightness to a little over the middle, the red cast has improved. It is a lot easier to live with the extra brightness than to live with a strong red color cast.