To the uninitiated, the title may make no sense. To me, it’s two of the preset display modes for my Asus monitors. The one that sits to the left has also seemed brighter and the whites whiter (now I sound like a laundry detergent ad) and for a long while I just left it all alone because both monitors were using DisplayPort and had the exact same settings.
Both used Racing Mode, which provided the least objectionable selection of gaudy, oversaturated colours. Or so I thought. On a whim, I selected Cinema Mode on the more yellowish monitor on the right and lo, the whites now look like they’ve been bleached to heck and back, just the way I like! I made a few other tweaks and now both monitors, using different settings, look roughly the same.
The real issue is likely either some fault in the right monitor, either something ultimately unfixable, or something not easily fixable, like the calibration being off. But for now, both monitors look the same(ish) and that’s good enough for me!
As a bonus (?), colours in Cinema Mode are a lot more…intense. Not necessarily oversaturated, but let’s say they pop a lot more. And I kind of like it. Maybe I’m becoming a more colourful person.
