Do you care about color? We mean do you
really care about getting the most true-to-life color reproduction on your monitor? Then you'll probably be wanting an
IPS panel, preferably with 99.3 percent coverage of the
Adobe RGB color spectrum and 100 percent of the sRGB stuff. What's that -- you'd also like more headroom than what these silly new 16:9 ratio displays can give you -- yup, the PA241W has you covered with 1200 pixels of vertical workspace as well. A solid 1,000:1 contrast ratio, 360 nits of brightness, 8ms response time and 178-degree viewing angles flesh out the spec sheet, while a tilt-and-swivel ergonomic stand, USB hub and
DisplayPort connectivity figure as the predictable extras. Less foreseeable is the generous 4-year parts and labor warranty, but then you'd want nothing less when splashing a cool $1,079 on a monitor. NEC is ready to ship it to you today, but if you're feeling in a thrifty mood we'd suggest also checking out
Dell's competing model, which offers a similar spec at a much lower price point.
posted February 2nd 2010 7:14AM
@Solidstate89:
More like 8:5.
None of this "16:10" nonsense.
Have to say I'm using Dell's U2410, and people thought $480 was too much to pay.... maybe I should send them this link, haha.
All about the IPS baby...
@kinless Yup, the U2410 is awesome; I've got two and they're a HUGE jump up from my 2408WFPs. Dell's quality control sucks though because I had to return 3 of them before I got my first good one (all had very uneven colors, the first was red on the right and left 20%, the second was green on the right, don't remember what was wrong with the third).
Lesson: If you're going to go with the Dell then be prepared for the possibility of an exchange in order to get a working product. Something's got to give when you're talking about a 50% price point vs NEC.
@kinless
Indeed! I'm sporting a 2405 and u2410 at home and I love them both. Once I got the color palette issues worked out with the u2410, I was much happier.
I'm curious if anyone (like myself) cares what kind of light source their monitors use. Why are we not seeing these high end monitors with some form of LED backlight?
@tk555 LED backlights are better for power consumption but worse for even color and contrast (oh God does the contrast suck on the LED-backlit monitors I've used). RGB LED backlit screens are better than while LEDs but still pale in comparison to proven technology.
@tk555 I can only speculate that the primary reasons that we are not seeing LED backlights in high end monitors is color accuracy, and cost. White light from LED's is actually an optical illusion, a blue light LED is used with a yellow filter, as the filter breaks down over time the color shifts towards the blue end of the spectrum, and accuracy goes down. CCFL backlights on the other hand can produce a more stable and accurate white, this is important because LCD's do not generate the additive colors by themselves like Plasma, CRT, or when it gets cheap enough OLED.
Color reproduction is generally good even contrast is still not bad but what really sucks on big led screens is the brightness!! They are too dark! My neighbour has 40+ inch led tv and he has to always dim out the lights to enjoy watching
@alixzibit Graphic professionals require more color accuracy and gamut than home applications. i.e. if you make your money off photo prints, the color had better match the color on monitor you edited the photo on. RGBLED would be nice, but outside of environmental concerns we might as well just wait for OLED.
I love the idea of a 24" IPS display and the 1920 X 1200 Resolution is just icing on the cake.
Wow those colors are really nice! I should get me one :P
@TMC
lol
Last year my wife was the same - she was watching an advert for a Panasonic HDTV on our old tv set and she said "wow- did you see how sharp and colourful the picture looks in it!". I groaned.
@thunderbollock
haha
Yay! A believable contrast ratio, just what we expected from good old NEC.
The HP2475w is also a competitor and it has darker blacks than the Dell U2410 (ref TFTCentral). But I understand the NECs have always been just that little bit better with color accuracy.
I hate them newfangled 16:9 screens. Good to see someone not being too quick to adopt new nonsense.
@evolutionofnonsens
I completelly agree! I already heard people wining that iPad screen is not a widescreen. Come on! 16:9 is a TV resolution!
@kris2lee
I couldn't agree more. How often is a monitor used for 16:9 film viewing as compared to browsing the web, working with documents, etc? All tasks where screen hight is better than screen width. This is just a step to minimize the number of production lines with no real benefit for the consumer except that the low prices can be maintained.
This would be perfect for me, it has almost anything i ask from a monitor, except for the price ofcourse. I love NEC monitors, i have at the office a 2690WUXi which is an amazing piece of tech, but this 24incher is a bit out of my price league. So, i'll probably try my luck with a Dell U2410.
Great. Let me know when they offer a 30" model.
That monitor has such a great image that it even broke the limitations of my crappy old laptop's display to reveal its true glory.
Seriously though, 1920x1200 is a wonderful resolution to work at, and after a couple of years being spoilt by my '2408, I can't imagine shifting back to anything less for the desktop machine.
LSD panel.. With bright colors.
damn, I am getting one for sure, I would buy an eizo cg243w but they cost much more.
Neat, now PCs can look as good as iMacs. Well, ones with non-yellow screens anyway.
Am I the only one that wants those wallpapers? :D