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Put it this way: I always knew their was tint. I could see it straight out. In fact I can see it on all pics posted of NEC Ea231wmi by their owners so far.
It was never a huge issue because the tint was mild. The picture quality of the monitor and color accuracy negates this fault (which seems to be virtually unavoidable for IPS panels nowadays). Why is this?
IF you are looking to get an IPS panel please note the following:
1) All well known companies now use LG Display panels exclusively for their IPS monitors.
2) There are a huge amount of posts re: tinting in Dell U2410, HP 2475 (H-IPS all made by LG Display)
3) Shamefully their are even quite a few reports re: tinting in NEC 2490,2690,3090 and Eizo sx2462. I say shaemfully because NEC 2490 costs upwards of $1000 US and Eizo more than $1800 US. For this price you expect perfection. Again all monitors use LG panels.
4) The old Planar PX2611 and Doublesight ds265 have issues with this also. Again IPS and manufactured by LG.
SO What am I trying to say?
Bottom line:
LG have problems with their manufacturing of IPS panels. It is well known, wide spread and 100% unavoidable if you do not
1) Get lucky with lesser monitors
2) Buy NEC wuxi range with color comp feature that apparently lessens this tint (but not fully)
3) Buy top of the line NEC spectraview or Eizo CG range where panels are hand picked.
If even $1800 + monitors have this problem and you want the benefits of IPS, this problem is REALLY hard to avoid
I personally think the benefits of IPS outweigh mild tint (especially when you consider this monitor only costs $360).
The NEC EA231wmi's are having much fewer reports of uniformity issues (so we can assume they are milder/non issues that do not bother even the uber picky people on [H]).
I think 3 people had more serious tint issues. If you are in N.America always buy from a store where you can return no questions asked.
Mine is mild to the extent that I can still heartily recommend this monitor because image for me is just wow (and I had perfect factory settings out of the box). (and it looks great on my desk!
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EDIT: Just to clarify. The testing was done to confirm for me that I wasn't seeing things i.e. that my eyes were not deceiving me. I was merely trying to validate my subjective impression that there was minor tint. And it's just that - minor. So yes I am still satisified
Its still a very nice monitor
It was never a huge issue because the tint was mild. The picture quality of the monitor and color accuracy negates this fault (which seems to be virtually unavoidable for IPS panels nowadays). Why is this?
IF you are looking to get an IPS panel please note the following:
1) All well known companies now use LG Display panels exclusively for their IPS monitors.
2) There are a huge amount of posts re: tinting in Dell U2410, HP 2475 (H-IPS all made by LG Display)
3) Shamefully their are even quite a few reports re: tinting in NEC 2490,2690,3090 and Eizo sx2462. I say shaemfully because NEC 2490 costs upwards of $1000 US and Eizo more than $1800 US. For this price you expect perfection. Again all monitors use LG panels.
4) The old Planar PX2611 and Doublesight ds265 have issues with this also. Again IPS and manufactured by LG.
SO What am I trying to say?
Bottom line:
LG have problems with their manufacturing of IPS panels. It is well known, wide spread and 100% unavoidable if you do not
1) Get lucky with lesser monitors
2) Buy NEC wuxi range with color comp feature that apparently lessens this tint (but not fully)
3) Buy top of the line NEC spectraview or Eizo CG range where panels are hand picked.
If even $1800 + monitors have this problem and you want the benefits of IPS, this problem is REALLY hard to avoid
I personally think the benefits of IPS outweigh mild tint (especially when you consider this monitor only costs $360).
The NEC EA231wmi's are having much fewer reports of uniformity issues (so we can assume they are milder/non issues that do not bother even the uber picky people on [H]).
I think 3 people had more serious tint issues. If you are in N.America always buy from a store where you can return no questions asked.
Mine is mild to the extent that I can still heartily recommend this monitor because image for me is just wow (and I had perfect factory settings out of the box). (and it looks great on my desk!
)EDIT: Just to clarify. The testing was done to confirm for me that I wasn't seeing things i.e. that my eyes were not deceiving me. I was merely trying to validate my subjective impression that there was minor tint. And it's just that - minor. So yes I am still satisified
Its still a very nice monitor
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