NEC specifically told me the i1d2 supports wide gamut and its listed in their manual as doing so..
Not only that.. it actually works and profiles the wide gamut as you can clearly see from the attachments..
After you buy your NEC puck.. it will be interesting to see you run it side by side to your current i1d2 puck and show us the difference..
Still curious about the differences of the Euro vs. America vs. Asian spec monitors..
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It does seem pretty tricky to figure out exactly the difference between the NEC puck and a stock ID2 is. It seems to me that they must be using at least a bit of a translation matrix for their puck or have altered the filters or something. I regular ID2 using regular software gives weird results on wide gamut monitors. Stock ID2 pucks also seem to vary quite a bit puck to puck, hopefully the NEC ones have all been calibrated to some specific matching standard.
As a quick test I used two DTP94 pucks and the NEC puck on a standard sRGB-ish gamut monitor and compared the results.
All three gave fairly similar gamma ramp shapes. Really almost exactly the same from 10%-90% (above 90% the NEC puck started giving a bit different shape).
The NEC puck claimed the black point was deeper than the DTP94 pucks did. On an HTDV both DTP94s put the blackpoint at 0.020 (with white point near 100 cd/m^2) while the NEC puck put the blackpoint at 0.015 and the WP 2cd/m^2 higher and registered a significantly higher claimed contrast ratio.
However, when it came to reading the location of the primaries the NEC puck started to read things differently and when it came to R,G,B balance on the gray-scale ramp it differed considerably from the DTP94 (which both gave pretty similar readings). It seemed to place green at a higher x-coord than the DTP94s and red at a lower x-coord and blue at a higher luminance.
On the set as is the NEC placed both red and green dead on but had blue 5-10% weak along much of the way while both DTP had instead blue and green almost aligned with another and just a touch weak but red an even 10% too hot compared to B/G. So NEC had green and red aligned and blue trailing and the DTPs had green and blue aligned with red leading. Not really the greatest agreement there between the NEC and either DTP94.
So I'm rather hoping that the NEC puck did have something special done to it that makes it no longer work ideally with alternate software on sRGB monitors, otherwise it's lack of agreement when it came to channel balance and primary readings with the DTP94s is perhaps a bit disconcerting.
One very odd thing is that a program that used compensation matrices had the two DTP94s giving somewhat different results in terms of WB on a wide gamut monitor, even though using regular software on an sRGB monitor they gave pretty similar results.
One of the DTP94 in the generic IPS wide gamut DTP94 mode reported 6450 WB (after calibrated with the NEC puck using spectraview II), the NEC puck gave more like 6670WB though with that software. Perhaps this hints that the NEC puck works at least somewhat well with Spectraview II and yet not as well using other software and thus has had something done to it to make it act differently than a stock ID2?
