Recent content by SD45

Same as a year ago.

This article is often cited: http://pcmonitors.info/articles/the-evolution-of-led-backlights/

I have owned two NEC LCD2490WUXi's. The first one I bought new and later sold it because I was in a period when I did not have much need for it. I shouldn't have sold it. It calibrated well and was still nearly new. I later bought a P241W. I found the W-LED harsh and bluish and after about...

+1 I was in your position, OP. And when I noticed that the staff were stuck with crap for monitors, I intervened.

Mine was bought used in 2012 and has 8,300 hours. Most recent Spectraview calibration results: 0.22 cd/m2 at 117.2 cd/m2 intensity, 540:1 contrast, and 0.97 delta-E (target D65 white point, 2.20 gamma, 120 cd/m2 intensity, and native color gamut). I previously owned another unit purchased...

16:10, the Golden Ratio. And I have maintained this preference since my first 19" monitor.

Tried regular W-LED (NEC P242W), liked everything about it except that my eyes apparently are quite sensitive to the excess blue light, i.e., the result of trying to make white light by coloring blue pixels with yellow. I am open to trying GB-R.

Maybe your problem is W-LED. Even the National Institutes of Health has warned about it. Too much blue light leads to macular degeneration. And W-LED emanates too much blue light.

Another 2490 owner here, along with a 2470WNX. I'd like NEC to come out with a 26- or 27-inch 1920x1200, sRGB upgrade from the 2490 that has better contrast while avoiding use of W-LED. Not everyone who wants and can afford a better display is a commercial art professional. Some of us just...

Funny thing is, 4K is wasted on someone sitting 9-10 feet back from the TV but looking at a monitor from two feet away is where it makes a difference.

I sympathize with your predicament. I'm still happily using the Samsung 244t, which uses a similar panel (the Samsung LTM240M2 S-PVA panel). As you have found, one of the compromises required by "progress" has been to give up height or accept about another two inches of lateral width in order...

I recently did some measuring and research to try to determine whether I could get an increase in the size of Word and PDF docs on-screen by moving from my current 24-inch 16:10 displays to a 27-inch 16:9 display. The conclusion was that I would gain about 3/8th's of an inch in the vertical...

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I thought I recalled seeing discussions here about how text was less sharp on S-PVA panels than on IPS or MVA panels, due to what I would call the diagonal structure of S-PVA pixels.

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