The one billion color LCD
NEC is getting us all excited about their new color-centric LCD monitor, which must obviously be aimed at the designers and photographers who until now have had to work with extremely high-end NEC CRTs to get the most accurate color representations—trust us, if this were any other company we would find it all highly suspect. The 21.3-inch LCD has a whole host of features, including an LED backlight (most use cold cathode fleurescent lamps) with feedback circuitry that allows it to stabilize brightness and contrast, support for Adobe RGB (which syncs your digital color to your screen screen), two DVI-D inputs, DDC/CI color calibration, and a 220cd/m2 brightness level (read:
damn). Missing, of course, is the pixel refresh rate (can we just say Doom III in a billion colors?). The screen itself is a "Super Advanced Super Fine" (SA-SFT) UXGA (1600x1200 pixels) display; the one billion colors number
is a slight bit fishy, but they say it can only display 16,770,000 colors simultaneously of the 1,064,330,000 possible colors, which somehow leaves us thinking something was lost in translation. Though no price is announced yet, you can bet your G5 it will probably cost a large fraction of the number of colors it supposedly displays.