Recent content by BalmoralBob

Any word yet on whether it's standard or wide gamut? Some of us still care.

Have you tried asking Nec? They can tell you who the distributors are.

I'll stick this here, although its not directly related to the op but should be somewhere on this forum so it can come up in searches. On my 2490WUXi2 the Mac doesn't recognize it as an LCD display, assumes its CRT and disables the font smoothing. That obviously makes a huge difference when...

What is the E setting in the advanced menu? There is a setting for DDC/CI. That's enabled by default.

I'm one of the two people also known to have this monitor. Mine looks pretty much the same as the one in the pictures. I never really got the obsession with vertical viewing angles, but looking for it now I do see the dark band. There are two artifacts I notice in practice, but only when...

I can't comment on the WUXi, but I've just been through this choice with the WUXi2. There is a noticeable sparkle, but you do see it less and less as you get used to it. I've avoided the matte ACDs in the past because of their sparkle. For me the matte with slight sparkle was preferable to...

It's not you, it's me. I've figured out the cause of the problems I was having. The good news for all of you out there in HardForum land is the screen is excellent, today it's been really good. The bad news for me is it's my eyesight. The guy who said time to see an ophthalmologist is...

I don't want to get carried away with how bad this is, the text is quiet readable, just not as relaxing as I see on other monitors. I think the monitor is probably fine, its just mismatch with any imperfections in my eyesight and is probably unique to me. High levels of ambient light help. My...

I use a DVI connection, running at the native resolution. Thanks to everyone for their efforts to help.

I think it is the sparkly anti-glare coating I'm seeing. If I concentrate hard I on the text I can see beyond the coating and the text looks perfect, but if I just look at it naturally in a relaxed way the text goes out of focus. I have fiddled with the sharpness, but I find the default or one...

Principally I'm comparing it with a Samsung 193P monitor, which is *VA based, along with an Apple 24" iMac and a 15" recent MacBook Pro. I thought the iMac and the NEC shared similar panels, although that may have changed with the WUXi2. Obviously the iMac is glossy and the NEC is matte. I...

:) I did think about that, but I use several other monitors on a daily basis. This is the only one where I notice the effort involved in reading.

I've had a NEC LCD2490WUXi2 for a few days and there's a lot I like about the monitor. However for me it has one critical flaw - I can't get easily readable text, it always seems to be slightly out of focus and glare-y. The effect is visible to me when I'm more than 30cm away from the screen...

I think the LCD2940W is the new SpectraViewII model. I.e. it includes the spectrometer. I know what you mean about the inferior display, but as I've never seen a display with the polarizer I probably won't miss it. I've spent a lot of time looking sideways at the 24" iMac display which uses a...

I haven't seen any reviews. But, on a wave of enthusiasm fuelled by Snowdog, albovin, Psyside etc, I've ordered a WUXi2. It should be with me tomorrow, I'll be back to complain loudly if I don't like it. Really if you're in the market for a good quality, IPS based, non-glossy, standard...