LCD viewing angle

[jultou]

I recently bought a A3 because I was happy with the X5L I have since 2 years. I like the Cowon products, they are of great quality.

I am happy with the A3 except for one thing : the viewing angle. When I watch videos, I take the player with a perfect 90 angle with my eyes and the sceen become dark.
To have the maximum brightness I have to rotate the player flat (like flat on a table). If I want to rotate it in front of me, it become darker.
It looks like it is a defect of the unit I got.

I would like to know if other users have experimented the same thing?

Thanks for your help.
Regards,
Julien

[otterpopjunkie]

I've actually been pretty impressed with the viewing angle on mine, maybe it's specific to your player? I don't know what could be different unless the backlight is just weak on yours or something though. I've watched movies on the lowest brightness on airplanes and I usually have it at 5/10, hasn't been a prob for me.

[jultou]

Thanks for your reply otterpopjunkie.

I will contact Cowon, it looks like there is something wrong with my player.
I need to put it on the maximum brightness value and still, I need to turn it at a strange angle to view it well.

Julien

[AustinSooner]

yes mine is great as well. I was on a plane last night and there was a lot of glare... I had to turn the player ~45 degrees into me so that I could see the video without glare. It worked very well this way.

[bootlegapparel]

the only angle mine darkens out at is looking top down, which is the hardest to see anyways, so yeah, no problems here