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Some comments on the power solution on this board: I think this "16 phase" or whatever it is is marketing creativity. I'm pretty sure they are taking a normal 4 phase controller and playing some tricks to make it look like 16 phases. It might actually just be four groups of 4 phases? The little...

Yes, that's what I found interesting too. I agree with the "uneven coating" hypothesis, but even still, the bleeding does seem to be pressure-related, and touching the panel or bezel does impact the backlighting even after this break-in period. Like I said, I'll post before & after photos in a...

An update on the backlight bleeding on my 2690s: As NEC tech support suggested, I have been running them at 100% brightness since Monday, and sure enough, when I got back into town tonight, they are much better! One in particular is almost perfect now, particularly when turning the brightness...

Hi Jerome, Check out the posts I made in the "My 2690 review" thread. I did a live chat with NEC tech support yesterday afternoon. They have had several complaints about bleeding on the 2690 and 3090s lately. They suggest running the display at 100% brightness for a week to break it in. I...

I just had an interesting chat with NEC's tech support. They have had a few comments lately about the backlight uniformity on the 2690 and 3090. Their engineers' suggestion is to let the monitor run for a week at 100% brightness to break it in. So far with other customers that seems to have...

Well, I received my second 2690 today- the replacement for the first unit I got that had backlight uniformity issues. The backlight uniformity on this one is almost as bad as the first. The upper right corner is still bright and on this one the lower right corner glows, too. Fortunately it...

What I can say from owning both a 2490 and a 2690 is that wide gamut looks VERY different from standard gamut sRGB if your application doesn't know the monitor is wide gamut. Wide gamut with non-color-aware applications might be really fun and entertaining, but it's definitely not accurate. As I...

Regarding the black bars, I believe there is an advanced option to set their intensity. Maybe you need to adjust it to 0%. The red tint doesn't sound so good. I do get a violet shift on a black screen, but that is not the same. I think you might correct about the upper backlight tube. Good...

Is the 2690 scaler option set for "ASP" (aspect ratio) scaling? I had to turn off the scaling on my video card using the nVidia control panel and enable it on the 2490. I have black bars on the left & right if I'm running, say, 1280x1024.

Yes, I'm going to try a second LCD2690 and see how it performs. From reading posts here, not all 2690s have backlight issues. Large LCD TVs seem to have this problem solved. But for monitors it does seem that 24" is sort of a limit today.

Hi Biges- Thanks. I had turned on ColorComp to the default level of 3. I will try turning it up to 5 to see if it makes a big difference. My feeling is that since the uniformity is bad enough that I can see it in daylight, I don't want to keep the panel. I'd rather start with something pretty...

Hi everyone- I have been reading the NEC posts with great interest over the last year or so. I have finally taken the plunge. I bought a 2490 w/SpectraView II last month and it is a very good monitor. The viewing angle is MUCH better than a typical 22" TN panel, but surprisingly not as good...