EIZO's 24-inch FlexScan for the colorblind

Eizo's back with a new 24-inch Flexscan SX2461W-U monitor for the colorblind color-weak chromatically sight challenged interpeoples. It chews the same CUD (Color Universal Design) technology of their 19-incher which uses shapes, positions, patterns, and so on to communicate color information back to the user. The monitor itself is capable of 92% color reproduction on a 1,920 x 1200 panel with 850:1 contrast and 300cd/m2 brightness. It will source input from a pair of HDCP-enabled DVI jacks while passing USB back to your PC with a pair of USB 2.0 ports. Available in Japan starting December 6 for ¥136,000 or about $1,047 of the green stuff, or blue stuff, depending.

[Via Akihabara News]

[bjrcboy @ Nov 26th 2007 3:58AM]

ummm how does this work ?

[EngadgetFAN @ Nov 26th 2007 4:28AM]

It looks like Eizo Flexscan SX2461W-U monitor, just like its other models, use Samsung/S-LCD Panel as well...

17" Eizo L557 25ms PVA (Samsung LTM170E6-L03) panel
17" Eizo L560t-c 25ms PVA (Samsung) panel
17" Eizo L560t-c-k 25ms PVA (Samsung) panel
17" Eizo L568 25ms PVA (Samsung LTM170E8-L02) panel
17" Eizo L578 12ms PVA (Samsung LTM170E8) panel
19" Eizo L760t-c 20ms PVA (Samsung) panel
19" Eizo L760t-c-k 20ms PVA (Samsung) panel
19" Eizo L767 25ms PVA (Samsung LTM190E1-L03) panel
19" Eizo L768 25ms PVA (Samsung LTM190E4-L02) panel
19" Eizo L768-AS 25ms PVA (Samsung LTM190E1-L03) panel
19" Eizo L778 (M190) 12ms PVA (Samsung LTM190E4) panel
19" Eizo L788 25ms PVA (Samsung LTM190E4-L02) panel
19" Eizo L795 25ms PVA (Samsung LTM190E1-L03) panel
...........

Today "almost all" monitor manufacturers, such like as DELL, Apple, Sony and Eizo, use LCD panels from either Samsung (S-LCD) or LG-Philips (two of the biggest LCD manufacturers on this planet)...

[Syndication @ Nov 26th 2007 12:36PM]

I wouldn't say "almost all" companies who produce LCD's use either Samsung or Phillips panels. Samsung has been outsourcing its lower end line of monitors to AU Optronics, Chimei, and a variety of low end companies. Just because it says Samsung on the monitor does not mean it was made by samsung. A lot of the lower end panels (the ones selling to consumers) are TN panels.

Eizo, Nec, and Apple as well as some others to an extent only use the BEST LCD panels on their higher end offerings with Eizo leaning toward PVA and Nec and Apple using variants of IPS panels.

There's a reason why there are tons of cheap LCD panels flooding the market these days because they're crap. Envision, Hanns-G, Westinghouse, Soyo, all crap.

If you're going to buy a cheap panel, at least buy something brand name like Samsung, LG, Asus or Dell. These companies are likely to be going concerns in the future and thus have more stringent production lines meaning less defects, plus they'll be there tomorrow in case anything goes wrong. Besides Westinghouse (who makes an assortment of other products including the electric meter on the side of my house), I wouldn't say many of those cheaper companies will be around that long.

[Miker @ Nov 26th 2007 6:18AM]

Finding information on the specifics is a bit difficult, but from what I can understand those three icons shown at the bottom left are the controls and can switch the monitor between "normal" colour operation, and what looks like two sets of "colour blind" operation.

It seems that there is a processor that analyses the colours on the screen and when it works out that a certain colour text on a certain colour background would be hard for a colour blind person to see, or that there are two shades of green that are on screen that a colour-blind person would only see as one, it somehow patterns or re-hues those colours enough for them to be discerned as separate colours.

...I think...the descriptions are a bit vague.

[Jack Casey @ Nov 26th 2007 7:20AM]

It looks to me much more like a monitor that can be set to one of 2 "colourblind" modes that SIMULATE WHAT A COLOUR BLIND PERSON WOULD SEE. IE it's for graphic designers who want to make sure that their visuals look good (or just legible) to colourblind people. It's not useful to colourblind people at all.

[undersaur @ Nov 26th 2007 11:01AM]

I suppose if it were really for colorblind people, it wouldn't need 92% color gamut reproduction, would it? :p

I've seen Photoshop color palettes that are supposed to help simulate protan or deutan deficiencies, e.g.:
http://www.jessett.com/web_sites/usability/colour_blindness.shtml
Best of all, this works on my $550 2407WFPs and doesn't need a new $1050 monitor!

[Jim F @ Nov 26th 2007 9:05AM]

Jack is correct; the color blind modes are for graphic designers. To quote from a retail sales description --

"The display is able to simulate the two common types of red-green color vision deficiency. This feature allows graphic designers who are working on maps, signage or other critical applications to see their work as a color blind person would. This is done in real time without the need for post-processing, allowing designers to quickly preview their work and ensure that it is readable by those afflicted with color blindness."

[ArtyG @ Nov 26th 2007 11:04AM]

I'd like game designers to see how difficult playing games like Puzzle Kombat (In the new MK DS game) and/or any other puzzle game is when you're colorblind. Stupid designers.

[ArtyG @ Nov 26th 2007 11:05AM]

"$1,047 of the green stuff, or blue stuff, depending."
When I was a kid, I thought grass was orange. $1,047 of the orange stuff.

[Katy @ Dec 30th 2007 10:15PM]

Okay, your explanation makes sense of the article. However, the article needs to be rewritten. It is not clear at all.