The 24" 1920x1200 NEC LCD2490WUXi is a no-brainer (costs aside), good backlight control, good out-of-the-box sRGB, great viewing angles. This is my minimum plan.
But I considered to get the 30" 2560x1600 NEC LCD3090WQXi just for the extra pixels. However, I have been reading a lot about the wide gamut thing. Their 26"/30" models are wide gamut. Hot debates over in the dpreview forum about how bad this sucks for people who want an sRGB world. Some pros go as far as to return them after a couple weeks.
(Also, apparently you can only lower the brightness to ~75% to dim the backlight, and after that, it's by the panel w/contrast loss.)
So, are there any "average" users around here that use the 26"/30" NEC wide gamut screens? I mean, are the colors like crazy saturated and wrong and annoying as hell? Or will my youtube, hotmail and yahoo, movie watching, programming, and gaming, web surfing all look just fine and dandy and great? I'm not a pro photographer or web designer. But I've read enough that I'm concerned, given the $$ price.
But I considered to get the 30" 2560x1600 NEC LCD3090WQXi just for the extra pixels. However, I have been reading a lot about the wide gamut thing. Their 26"/30" models are wide gamut. Hot debates over in the dpreview forum about how bad this sucks for people who want an sRGB world. Some pros go as far as to return them after a couple weeks.
(Also, apparently you can only lower the brightness to ~75% to dim the backlight, and after that, it's by the panel w/contrast loss.)
So, are there any "average" users around here that use the 26"/30" NEC wide gamut screens? I mean, are the colors like crazy saturated and wrong and annoying as hell? Or will my youtube, hotmail and yahoo, movie watching, programming, and gaming, web surfing all look just fine and dandy and great? I'm not a pro photographer or web designer. But I've read enough that I'm concerned, given the $$ price.