Pick up the monitor tonight, been working on some logos for about an hour and messing around and surfing with the NEC.
Screen looks amazing, text is so clear and bright there is no fading colors from top to bottom at all. Colors DO NOT shift at all when your tilt your head or what not.. BIG plus for me with my design work. Screen and text and sharpness plus viewing angles blows away the LG L203WT. Screen clarity color and sharpness matches my 2 CRTs Sony G420 and my Viewsonic G810 pretty impressive.
I have been messing with color banding tests and I do have some banding but they are better than the LG L203WT not by much thou. Kinda disappointing with the test but I feel I did not really notice it at all when using Photoshop and Illustrator , but did when surfing some websites. I guess this is something that I will have to live with as all 3 LCD that I tried had banding (Samsung 204b, LG L203WT and the NEC), never clear like my CRT's hopefully LEDs or some other new technology for LCDs will solve this problem?
Also The NEC does have quite of bit of back light bleed on all 4 corners, sucks but you cannot really notice unless it is a dark screen. I have heard the the backlight bleed goes away after some usage, not sure if that is BS or not. The LG have much less backlight bleed.
Another thing I have noticed with the DV modes is that it really made to color banding test WORSE and found that the standard way from the factory was best for desktop app and graphic programs. Was weird as each mode seem to make the banding worse.
The glare issue is not an issue at all, i feel. As soon as it is power up it look amazing. I even was working with an over head light on and did not notice an glare.
I dot not really game on my PC just with my kids and there games, got my 61 Samsung DLP with media center Radeon XT with DVI and Xbox360, that looks AMAZING.
So I will be testing it out for a bit but so it looks like it might be a keeper. So damm expensive 750.00 want to make sure that it is worth it over my LG L203WT for 479.00.
Plus do not know if I will use the TV features or any other of the inputs but damm this screen looks good and works great.
-Dave
Screen looks amazing, text is so clear and bright there is no fading colors from top to bottom at all. Colors DO NOT shift at all when your tilt your head or what not.. BIG plus for me with my design work. Screen and text and sharpness plus viewing angles blows away the LG L203WT. Screen clarity color and sharpness matches my 2 CRTs Sony G420 and my Viewsonic G810 pretty impressive.
I have been messing with color banding tests and I do have some banding but they are better than the LG L203WT not by much thou. Kinda disappointing with the test but I feel I did not really notice it at all when using Photoshop and Illustrator , but did when surfing some websites. I guess this is something that I will have to live with as all 3 LCD that I tried had banding (Samsung 204b, LG L203WT and the NEC), never clear like my CRT's hopefully LEDs or some other new technology for LCDs will solve this problem?
Also The NEC does have quite of bit of back light bleed on all 4 corners, sucks but you cannot really notice unless it is a dark screen. I have heard the the backlight bleed goes away after some usage, not sure if that is BS or not. The LG have much less backlight bleed.
Another thing I have noticed with the DV modes is that it really made to color banding test WORSE and found that the standard way from the factory was best for desktop app and graphic programs. Was weird as each mode seem to make the banding worse.
The glare issue is not an issue at all, i feel. As soon as it is power up it look amazing. I even was working with an over head light on and did not notice an glare.
I dot not really game on my PC just with my kids and there games, got my 61 Samsung DLP with media center Radeon XT with DVI and Xbox360, that looks AMAZING.
So I will be testing it out for a bit but so it looks like it might be a keeper. So damm expensive 750.00 want to make sure that it is worth it over my LG L203WT for 479.00.
Plus do not know if I will use the TV features or any other of the inputs but damm this screen looks good and works great.
-Dave