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SeptimusFry

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« on: March 24, 2010, 12:00:03 pm »

Hi,

First time here for a long time. Anyway, I came here today to see if I could get some good advice on what monitor to buy. I want a monitor that can cover the whole of Adobe RGB, can be corrected (using suitable colorimeter) and will remain reasonably stable through its life.

I have been using a 1600x1200 19" TFT LCD Monitor (IIyama AU4831D, so old you might not be able to find anything on it. In its time, I thought it quite good, but recently I have been unable to get a reasonable color management profile sorted, it just won't calibrate.  Not to worry, it is about 6 or 7 years old, so I am now ready to buy new.

I came across an HP Professional DreamColor monitor, retailing at about £1800, which out-gamuts most of the gamuts
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Covering a staggering 133 per cent of the NTSC colour space, the LP2480zx comes pre-programmed to support the sRGB, Adobe RGB, SMPTE-C and Rec.709/601 colour spaces in full, as well as DCI-P3 at 95 per cent, while you can also pre-configure one colour space yourself or use the 'Full' colour gamut mode.
But it IS also staggeringly expensive. Has anyone any suggestions which approach this, and are, say, less than about £1000/$1500 ??

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« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2010, 12:26:38 pm »

Unless you have to buy something tomorrow, might want to wait on the new NEC PA241W which has some interesting new options and like the other NEC spectraView II’s is a very good reference display. This pup is a tad bigger than Adobe RGB (1998) too and looks like it will be quite affordable. Should ship pretty soon...
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« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2010, 12:28:31 pm »

Unless you have to buy something tomorrow, might want to wait on the new NEC PA241W which has some interesting new options and like the other NEC spectraView II’s is a very good reference display. This pup is a tad bigger than Adobe RGB (1998) too and looks like it will be quite affordable. Should ship pretty soon...

Ops, sorry, 99.3% of Adobe RGB
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« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2010, 03:50:53 pm »

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I came across an HP Professional DreamColor monitor, retailing at about £1800, which out-gamuts most of the gamuts
But it IS also staggeringly expensive. Has anyone any suggestions which approach this, and are, say, less than about £1000/$1500 ??


If you’re on a Mac, running Snow Leopard, you don’t want this pup, it doesn’t work, based on a report just posted to the ColorSync list. Worse, this fellow states:
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HP's support has consistently been the worst I have ever encountered in over 30 years of dealing with hardware and software manufacturers.  While the DreamColor is a fine monitor, based on their lack of support, I would never purchase another HP product.
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