I kept editing the original post as I discovered things.... maybe this was misconstrued as covering up forum infringements, I was only trying to keep all the info in the same place..
OK..
1. I can't find any dead pixels, or sub pixels.... just when I thought I had a dead subpixel, it turned ouy to be dust. I got fed up going through all the colours, and checking, if I can't find any looking moderately hard, I don;t think its worth going too mad looking for them.
2. Doing some technical colour tests, it appears that reds/blues dominate slightly, and yellow/cyan seems slightly supressed. This can make some yellows (.e.g a windows folder Icon) on certain backgrounds look a teensie bit off, but thats being critical... This is more a function of the colour temp I think, and the Samsung is just as bad at greens/reds...
3. I can;t make my mind up as to whether the samsung lower contrast/more dark detail looks better or worse then the Hitachi who use a higher contrast, less dark detail setting on DVI, I'd say for 75% of games, the Hitachi looks better, but some very dark games have more detailed revealed on the samsung, but don;t look half as vivid... and since you don't get a choice of contrast on DVI, its a moot point, only relevent when comparing, in isolation, they both look superb on the desktop.
