NEC's new LCD1990FX and LCD1990FXp displays

So NEC's got another pair of monitors, submitted here for your approval: the LCD1990FX, and its black counterpart, the LCD1990FXp. Oh, you know, they're just your usual overpriced ultrathin-bezeled (7mm) EIZO-like professional studio monitors with the usual features; 178° viewing angles, 250cd/m2 brightness, 1500:1 contrast ratio, 20ms response time, DVI, VGA, and 19-inch 1280 x 1024 resolutions. In otherwords , probably not enough to justify that ¥102,900 ($880 US) price tag, but that bezel man, that bezel. If you ever wanted to build that grid of LCDs, this screen is your obvious choice.

[Via Far East Gizmos]

[Dave @ Jul 23rd 2006 4:25AM]

New 19-inch? These should be used on a mobile devices these days :)

[Camellia @ Jul 23rd 2006 4:31AM]

Yeah I won't pay $880 on this crazy thing I'll definitely go for an Apple 20' cinema display instead.

[Ariox @ Jul 23rd 2006 4:46AM]

20ms response time? Don't you mean 2?

And I agree, way over priced. I bought my 19" at ~$250, and it works so well that I don't understand how an $880 price tag can be justified for this.

[Keith L. Dick @ Jul 23rd 2006 4:56AM]

Ain't nowhere near 21", I don't need it...

[JoirJ @ Jul 23rd 2006 5:32AM]

Dieses Modell spezialisiert sich auf die wichtigsten Eigenschaften, über die ein High-End LCD z.B. im Finanzumfeld verfügen muss. Die Vielzahl an Features, über die der NEC MultiSync LCD1990FX dennoch verfügt, adressiert aber auch generell Profi-Anwender mit hohen Ansprüchen an ihr Display.

[Eric @ Jul 23rd 2006 5:35AM]

Or buy a Dell 24' instead... (after they fix the banding problems)

[Eddie @ Jul 23rd 2006 6:01AM]

Looks nice but, 20ms response time? Is that right?

[requem @ Jul 23rd 2006 7:00AM]

Eddie

Right... but I think 20ms it's to slow :(

[Tony Rayo @ Jul 23rd 2006 8:21AM]

Just a little correction here, the LCD1990FX and the LCD1990FXp are two total different models, not different colors. NEC uses the letters BK to represent black, so you can get a LCD1990FX-BK and a LCD1990FXp-BK, but the above specs are correct for the LCD1990FXp (which is the newer/updated model). The LCD1990FX is a cheaper model (only 71,400 yen or 615$) and comes in with slightly different specs (resolution and viewing angles are the same, responce time is a litte faster at 18ms, contrast is 800:1 and the display comes with 1 Analog and 1 DVI connection while the FXp has 2 DVI connections). Hope that helps (got the info off of NEC's Japanese site, never doubt the learning potentional of hentai!).

- Tony R.

[KorruptioN @ Jul 23rd 2006 9:01AM]

Somebody who buys this LCD won't care for the 20ms response time. My Dell 1905FP (of several years back) boasts similar specs and the image quality, viewing angles, and contrast ratio is very hard to beat.

[Tony Rayo @ Jul 23rd 2006 9:50AM]

A gamer would (today 8 - 12ms is the key range for gaming monitors), then again I don't think this is for gamers, I think this is for coders, designers, etc.

- Tony R.

[Satch @ Jul 23rd 2006 10:51AM]

Wait, I don't get it. A $900 19 inch LCD with a 20ms response time? My BenQ FP93GX is 19 inches of 2ms (GTG) response time for low to mid $200's. Granted, the bezel is 13mm, but honestly, is the extra six millimeters worth four times the price and ten times the visual delay/ghosting?

[GhostDoggy @ Jul 23rd 2006 12:12PM]

$900 for 1280x1024? I think someone at NEC has let their boat sail without them on it.

[JD @ Jul 23rd 2006 9:22PM]

some of you really have no idea about pro gear do you?

remember kids, a dell or benq is the cheap of the cheap...and such thier performance suffers...color, brightness uniformity etc

these are high grade panels, not your 'toys'

[Ethyriel @ Jul 24th 2006 12:29AM]

Yes, go back to your 18 bit TN panels. If you insist that these panels could never be worth the cost, try this little monitor test on your current panel. And as you notice the banding, wildly varying gamma, inconsistent backlighting, and fluttering image; remember that even an uncalibrated entry level Eizo such as the L568 passes with near perfection (the gamma was slightly higher on blue). If you really want to be disgusted, get some pantone tiles and load up some pantones in Photoshop.

An LCD monitor test:
http://www.passmark.com/products/monitortest.htm

And you know that much higher response time? Our Eizo L568's and Samsung 940T's at work have no annoying ghosting (for me) in movies and such. Some of the supposedly (much) faster TN panels that I've seen from NEC, LG, and Viewsonic have significantly worse ghosting. That's not true of all these fast panels, but it certainly is for some. This is a good lesson for everyone, don't trust the advertised pixel response, the manufacturers just love to ignore the ISO standard. For more on this read the testing techniques and reviews over at THG (who, to my surprise, actually do a pretty damned good LCD review)

[Venimus @ Jul 26th 2006 7:32PM]

Lol never tought that s.o. could ever say a TN BENQ with 7bit color is better than IPS NEC with 8bit color