Badd,
I haven't calibrated anything it's just my subjective sense. I played with the brightness and contrast settings though but never found a combination that would satisfy me. It's so bad in fact, that I think I prefer the look of my TN-film screen I bought for office work.
I'm pretty certain it is not defective. It behaves very similarly to the Dell 2000FP which it replaced and identically to another example of the 231WMi which my friend ordered at the same time.
I was never really enamored with my 2000FP and I don't like this NEC screen either. Another friend...
Beware of the NEC. I just got it and I don't like it very much. Mostly because its black rendering is.. well, not very black. I'd rather have a PVA panel but then again my ratio of graphics to text usage time is about 50/50 so I care about crisp text and you only get crisp text when your black...
For me the contrast level of this screen is way too low. I appreciate the benefits of an (x)IPS screen but the contrast level and particularly the weak, muddy blacks make me really disappointed in this screen. I
bought it on the advice of this forum but I can't say this purchase is something...