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    NEC LCD2690

    I can't hear mine, even from rather close. I can't get my ear right up to it, because it's directly under a shelf, sort of set back in. I also have very quiet equipment, becuase I record and mix music in here (as well as the photo work). My MacPro is not silent, but it's pretty quier when the...
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    NEC LCD2690

    I have no opinion on who insulted whom, or didn't, but would you please take this discussion off-line, or perhaps just end it? It has nothing to do with thie subject of this thread.
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    NEC LCD2690

    Meow, this is what I was trying to explain earlier, but obviously I wasn't clear. Really, there are two different things - calibrating and profiling. Both use an external colorimeter, like the one shown in sosrah's post, which conencts to the computer via usb. The profiling software spends...
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    NEC LCD2690Wuxi for photography / photo-editing

    The answer is no, to both questions. I don't have a convenient hdtv source, or I'd try it for you. I probably would have tried the low brightness mode if I'd know about it, but I didn't until I saw your post. At this point, the display is just fine, so I don't think I'll mess with it.
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    NEC LCD2690Wuxi for photography / photo-editing

    The room I work in has lots of north-facing windows. During the day, it's fairly bright but not direct sunlight. I work here both day and night, and at night I keep the room pretty dark. The monitor, set at 120 cd/m2 works well both day and night, so I rarely adjust the brightness. It is...
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    NEC LCD2690

    Sorry, Meow, I'm not sure why I assumed that. Anyway, the comments on the nature of calibration / profiling still stand. If you want accurate, standardized color out of this or any other monitor, having a profiling colorimeter tool is the only way to do it. The only difference with an NEC...
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    NEC LCD2690

    Meow, I think you're misunderstanding calibration. The monitor, as delivered, looks great. What calibration does is to make the colors look more precisely correct when attached to my particular computer, with my particular video card, at the brightness and gamma I want, in my ambient lighting...
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    When will NEC LCD2690 be available?

    I ordered mine from PCConnection and had it in well under a week, even with free shipping. It was my first experience with them, and it was a good one.
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    NEC LCD2690

    I stopped when I couldn't read the text at all. But, I've got 55-year-old eyes. Maybe I could have read another increment or two fifteen years ago. You're right, that the tests are very subjective. Even the boxes test is pretty tough to decide on an exact answer. Take them for what...
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    NEC LCD2690Wuxi for photography / photo-editing

    I turned Colorcomp on because it seemed like a good idea, but haven't experimented with it further. According to the doc, it makes the display more even, at the expense of brightness. That seemed like a great tradeoff, since I certainly don't need it at maximum brightness, anyway.
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    NEC LCD2690

    I've just posted some comments regarding this monitor for photo use, at http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1154800.
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    NEC LCD2690Wuxi for photography / photo-editing

    There have been a few posts here and a couple of private messages asking how the new NEC monitor does for photo-editing. The answer, in short, is that it seems wonderful. I've only had the monitor for a couple of days now. I've never used an Eizo, which is the monitor to which the NEC is...
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    NEC LCD2690

    I'm not a gamer, and persistence / response time of little concern to me. Even so, since I'm one of the first with a 2690, I ran the pixel persistence tests, as requested. I ran the tests both with overdrive off and on. These were run on my PC, connected to the 2690 through a kvm into the...
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    NEC LCD2690

    Overdrive is off. The program you pointed me to is for PC, and I'm on my mac now. When I switch back, I'll try to run it.
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    NEC LCD2690

    On my Mac, it looked fine without calibration. On my PC, it looked lousy, but that's probably because the PC was running through a weird profile that I'd created for my old ViewSonic. If you have no color-critical needs (I print fine-art photos, and the screen colors need to match the prints...
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    NEC LCD2690

    I ordered one from PC Connedtion last week, and it arrived this afternoon. I just finished calibrating it, and it looks great! It is much brighter than I'm used to, though, so I may try to tone it down a bit. Hang in there - it's worth the wait.
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    When will NEC LCD2690 be available?

    I just ordered one from PC Connection - good price, free shipping, no tax in California. I hope you can get them a unit soon, trav! BTW, thanks for being here and participating in this forum. It's great to have somebody from the mfg. around.
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    NEC LCD2690

    According to http://www.necdisplay.com/support/main.cfm?thePage=http://www.necdisplay.com/spectraview2/body.htm&title=View%20all%20drivers%20%26%20downloads, the 2690 is supported in the latest download. You say that I'll need to buy this software in addition to the monitor?
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    NEC LCD2690

    I've already got a Gretag Eye-One Display2 calibrator. Is there any reason to wait for the Spectra version? Is there any advantage to calibrating with NEC software over the normal Gretag software? If so, will I be able to get the NEC software to work with my existing calibrator? Thanks.
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    NEC LCD2690

    http://www.necus.com/companies/17/NECDisplaySolutions_Extends_Award.pdf Has anybody seen a site taking orders for these yet?
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    NEC LCD2690

    I saw the NEC 2690 today at MacWorld. It's gorgeous! Mr. NEC-man said that it's in mass production now, and they've released the SKU so that resellers can accept orders. He said to expect delivery in very early February. MSRP $1499. I need one.
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    benq fp241w for photographer / 1:1 mapping

    I'm thinking of getting a fp241w to use both with a mac and pc. I do a fair amount of photography, and I'm concerned about two things. First, I've seen almost no information about color accuracy. Has anyone run a calibration on this monitor (I have an eye-one )? If so, how well did it work...
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    Anyone know when the Samsung 245T comes out?

    I'm sure I saw a CeBIT article that showed this monitor as having LED backlight, but now I can't find it. Maybe I'm imagining things. There is a video from CeBIT at http://cebitvideo.com/?p=15 showing LED panels in the Samsung booth, but it doesn't mention model numbers. Anyway, even if...
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    Anyone know when the Samsung 245T comes out?

    Does anyone have any info on the Samsung 245T yet? When might it come, and is the cost likely to be similar to the 244T? I'd buy the 244T now, except that it's about 1" too tall for the space where I need it. I saw something, somewhere, that said the 245T mount would go a bit lower. Also...
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