New pro 21 and 24-inch LCDs from EIZO

EIZO has just added two new "Creator Edition" displays to their their line of LCDs targeted at graphics pros. The widescreen ColorEdge CE210W and CE240W displays sport 21-inch and 24-inch sizes respectively, along with 1000:1 contrast ratios and 8ms response times. In the 21-inch you can score 1680x1050 pixels, while the 24-inch version brings 1920x1200, and both displays include a USB hub and 5 year warranty. They're slated to ship in mid-March, no word on price yet.

[Via MacMinute]

[master_of_fm @ Feb 24th 2006 12:25PM]

HDCP?

[raj @ Feb 24th 2006 12:28PM]

New pro 21 and 24-inch LCDs from EIZO looks very good.
Its flat screen looks nice.

http://cheap-computers-review.blogspot.com

[rex @ Feb 24th 2006 12:40PM]

omg those things look beautiful

[Jo @ Feb 24th 2006 12:58PM]

master_of_fm, its not a consumer model, I don�t think anyone working on 3d modeling or CAD would really care about streaming HD in windows vista...

[dutch @ Feb 24th 2006 1:22PM]

What app is that on the screens?

[aijfh @ Feb 24th 2006 1:24PM]

Do these comments support embed tags?

[James @ Feb 24th 2006 1:24PM]

Seems like I see more and more link spamming on these Engadget threads... (post #2)

[aijfh @ Feb 24th 2006 1:25PM]

nope, didn't even show the text

[Pork Rind @ Feb 24th 2006 1:27PM]

"What app is that on the screens?"

InDesign

[master_of_fm @ Feb 24th 2006 1:32PM]

Jo, who says that these things couldnt be used for content creation?

[dmek @ Feb 24th 2006 2:14PM]

the app is a derivation of HollywoodOS

[VV @ Feb 24th 2006 2:19PM]

I've got the Eizo S2110W and, put simply, it is stunning. Fantastic picture quality, excellent build and it looks like a million dollars. Sure, it was expensive (�720) but worth every penny.

[Jeff @ Feb 24th 2006 5:07PM]

"along with 1000:1 contrast ratios and 8ms response times. In the 21-inch you can score 1680x1050 pixels, while the 24-inch version brings 1920x1200, and both displays include a USB hub"

Yeah, none of these things matter to the graphics pros these are supposedly aimed at. (Contrast ratio matters, but not out of context, i.e. what are the actual black and white points? Knowing the difference between them is meaningless without knowing the starting point - it's like trying to figure out how fast someone's driving when the only piece of info you have is that they're going 10mph over the speed limit.)

What is the color gamut of these screens? As mentioned, what are the white and black points? How many bits per pixel? What sort of color temperature performance (through the full brightness and color range) are we looking at?

These should be the basic stats of any "pro" screen, not meaningless stuff like pixel response and contrast ratio. That stuff matters to gamers playing in brightly lit rooms, not to graphics pros.

[Ian @ Feb 24th 2006 5:07PM]

Anyone know what EIZO's dead pixel policy is? I had one pixel go dead on my Dell 2405FPW and it is driving me mad.

[Dan H @ Feb 24th 2006 5:13PM]

Knowing Eizo, these would probably cost both arms and both legs. But their quality and 5 year warranty speak for themselves.

I have Eizo 568 and 767, which are far from Eizo's top-of-line, but they are simply amazing. Once you go Eizo, it's hard to go back.

[loqii @ Feb 24th 2006 5:21PM]

Okay. Tell you what? Why don't you learn how to mass produce, program, and deploy your own LCD that beats those specs, Jeff.

Give that a shot, and let us know the white and black points, the bits per pixel, the color temp performance and the gamut -- Until then?

Shut the hell up.


loqii

[Jin Kim @ Feb 24th 2006 7:39PM]

I'm assuming you meant to type CE240W, not CE250W, for the 24" wide version.

[earthling @ Feb 25th 2006 12:36AM]

The specs are right on the site if you care to look. 14 bit color processing, 10 bit LUT, individually calibrated. very nice. My experience with Eizo (formerly Nanao) is that they make a killer monitor. I try to convince people that 99% of their computer experience is driven by the quality of their monitor and keyboard and if they focus on that when purchasing a new computer they will come away much happier. One of my good friends was in the market for a new system and asked what monitor he should get, when I asked him what he had previously he looked at me shocked and said "that 17" nanao you recommended 6 years ago", then he tells me there is nothing wrong with it, he just wants something bigger.

Back in the CRT day Nanao (Eizo) used to hand pick their tubes and individually calibrate them, they were the best graphics design monitors available next to the much more expensive barcos.