NEC's MultiSync LCD2190UXi: 21.3-inches of SA-SFT for the pros

Fancy yourself a pro, eh? Then check it son, cause NEC just dropped a new 21.3-inch MultiSync for your million color palette to dance upon. NEC's new LCD2190UXi features their Super-Advanced Super Fine TFT (SA-SFT) panel flauntin' a 1,600 x 1,200 resolution, 500:1 contrast ratio, game-hatin' 20-millisecond response, 178-degree viewing angle, and host of high-end image processing capabilities for user-based gamma correction and control over brightness and color unevenness across the display. And with connectivity options including the ol' D-sub 15, three DVIs and a thin 14.9-mm bezel for multiple, multi-sync setup, she'll treat you with the respect you deserve mister professional. Dropping June 26 in Japan for ¥207,900 or about $1,806 of the green stuffs.

[james @ Jun 20th 2006 7:31AM]

maybe someone can help me. i do not consider myself a pro, but do a fair ammount of image/video edditing.

what is the difference between this screen and the dell/apple equivalents?

THANKS

[Carsten Otto @ Jun 20th 2006 8:05AM]

Hm, why did they change the foot? I have two NEC 2180UX and like their design :(

[Sean @ Jun 20th 2006 11:47AM]

James,

The Dell/Apple equivalent do not have the same color gamut as these screens and consequently cannot reach the same color accuracy.

If you do a great deal of pre-press graphic design & Color Proofing the colors on screen may not match those when going to a 4-colour press which is why LCDs have not penetrated yet into the Graphic/Print design yet.

Monitors like these are making headway although at that price I'll stick with my dual 21" CRTs.

[Ken @ Jun 20th 2006 7:46PM]

How is it possible that companies are still making TWENTY ONE INCH displays with only 1600x1200 resolution.

My 15" laptop display has higher resolution than that!

Where are the 3200x2400 displays? Then I might be impressed.

And please, no comments about how text would be too small to read at that resolution. You can adjust font and icon sizes. Everything just becomes much crisper and clearer.

[Pete @ Mar 7th 2007 8:09AM]

>>companies are still making TWENTY ONE INCH displays with only 1600x1200 resolution.

At the moment the main commercial OSes are not resolution independent (Windows is 96dpi and Mac OS is 72dpi). Once this changes, I expect that it will be advantageous for LCD manufacturers to offer as high a resolution as possible.