NEC delivers 26- / 30-inch LCDs with SpectraView color calibration sensor
By Darren Murph 
posted January 6th 2009 4:58PM
posted January 6th 2009 4:58PM
posted January 6th 2009 4:58PM
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$1500? That monitor better be awesome to be worth that much money.
I know those color calibration sensors can get pretty pricey......
It better cook dinner and handle conjugal too for that price!
If it's better than my LCD2690WUXi, it's worth every penny. It has paid for itself easily in a few months by catching things an old tn/lower gammut panel was missing.
My main complaint with this monitor I wish it were easier to toggle between the color accurate refresh rate to the overdrive rate since I work in both images and motion graphics depending on the project. the backlighting is also strange if there is nothing on the screen, but nothing that affects quality.
anyone credible know what's new about the W2 compared to the WUXi?
After looking long and hard and reading lots and lots of reviews, I bought a 20" NEC 20WGX2pro for use at home. That too is an S-IPS panel, to replace an ageing iiyama 19". At work, employer provides the respected 24" Dell 2407WFP (S-PVA panel), and I used to come home, look at my Iiyama and wonder if my eyes were broken, it was so much fuzzier and lower-res than the Dell!
Now, if I use my NEC in the morning before work, the Dell seems, well, a tad dull. Off-axis, the S-PVA panels are poor, yet this S-IPS is good for +/-60 degrees off perpendicular.
My monitors usually last three times as long as a computer, so I'm quite happy to pay a lot more for them!
On that note, I will always buy a laptop with the better (higher res) screen, and have never regretted it. Provided you use an OS whose GUI is fully scalable, within reason the higher the res, the better!
Before the morons come out and say "but I can get a 24" for $150 from office depot", this is a reference monitor that is meant to have exceedingly accurate colours - it's not for you, it's for professionals doing photography, graphic design and video work.
it's actually pretty cheap for a reference monitor which includes a cal.
Very true, those $150 monitors use low quality TN panels which are horribly inaccurate when it comes to colors and extremely poor when it comes to angle viewing where the colors invert and all kinds of crazy things. Heck fill the screen with solid grey and no matter how you turn your head, you'll see different shades of grey in different parts of the TN monitor.
PS: I'm an S-IPS snob too, before 2007 every monitor on the market was S-IPS, these cheap TN panels took over the industry but you can still buy S-IPS fairly affordable if you buy older models or used/leased/refurb but sadly new S-IPS monitors are becoming more high end as time goes on.
"It's for professionals doing pornography..."
wait, what?
"NEC doesn't even stop to mention the native resolution on either IPS panel, though it spends a copious amount of time detailing exactly how awesome fully automated color calibration is"
it's an apple event, the selling point isn't the specs, but whether the item in question is shiny and expensive or not.
Wowza, just like bang and olufson have been doing for a decade!
I was about to drop bank on the 30". Glad I can do it on a BRAND NEW model now! w00t!!!
Considering how expensive these calibrators can get, is there a place where one can rent them for a day or two?
Rob, if you need to do color accurate work, you will need to calibrate at least every month. Colors on monitors can drift with use, so it is quite important.
Also this isn't really news as NEC has been offering their previous 24, 26, and 30 with calibration as an option.
very true, as the backlight will fade on ccfl backlit monitors. The question is would the same be true for RGB LED backlit screens? (and I'd have thought not!)