Viewing Angle

The Viewing Angle test evaluates how consistently a display renders color and brightness when viewed from different positions. This is a critical metric for large monitors, televisions, and professional design work where color accuracy must be maintained across the entire surface.

📋 How to Perform the Test

1. 🔳 The Grid: We use a high-contrast pattern consisting of primary colors and grayscale steps.
2. 👀 The Technique: Sit at your normal viewing distance. Move your head slowly from left to right, and then up and down. Watch specifically for changes in the darker colors and the skin-tone-like hues.

🔍 What to Look For

🎨 Color Shift: When viewed from the side, does the “White” background take on a blue or yellow tint? Do the primary colors lose their vibrancy?

🌫️ Gamma Shift (Contrast Loss): Does the image appear “washed out” or desaturated as you move off-center? This is very common in VA panels.

✨ Black Level Glow: On an IPS panel, the corners may appear to “glow” with a silver or gray haze when viewed at an angle. This is IPS Glow.

🔄 Inversion: On older TN panels, viewing from below often causes the colors to completely invert (e.g., black becomes white).

🖥️ Panel Type Expectations

💎 OLED/AMOLED: Best-in-class viewing angles. Colors remain nearly identical up to extreme angles.

🖥️ IPS/AAS/PLS: Very good performance with minimal color shift, but prone to IPS Glow in the corners.

📺 VA/MVA: Significant gamma shift. The “Black” level often rises, and colors become pastel-like at angles.

⚠️ TN: Poor performance. Drastic shifts occur even with minor head movements.

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