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dave_in_gva

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My PA271W monitor arrived this morning.

I already have an i1 spectrophotometer but was planning on downloading Spectraview II for calibration. I hope I'm mistaken, but the NEC purchase site seems to only allow purchase of the software with a bundled colorimeter.

Apologies if this has been answered here before (I did a search), but is it not possible to simply download the Spectraview II software and use my i1 spectrophotometer?

In case it matters I live in Europe (I know with the 2690 there were European/non-European issues with Spectraview).

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Dave M
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Yes, and no - you can purchase and download SVII, but you can't buy it from EU
http://www.necdisplay.com/supportcenter/monitors/spectraview2/purchase/
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dave_in_gva

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Thanks Marcin,

I checked out the link and saw the following:

SpectraView II software only - A compatible display monitor and color sensor must be purchased separately. This is useful if you already own a supported color sensor and display. The part number for this is "SVII-SOFT" for CD-ROM format and SVIISOFT-W for online purchase and download. Be sure to check that your color sensor model is supported by SpectraView.

Which makes me think I should be able to purchase the software....but as you seem to imply I don't see where I can simply click a link, plonk in the SVIISOFT-W part number and buy the software. Does NEC block part of their online retail for European (or likely non-North American) IPs?

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Dave M
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Spectraview II and PA271W - another regional marketing coup for NEC
« Reply #3 on: September 16, 2010, 04:24:21 pm »

Sigh...so I've just checked out this whole issue more closely and it seems NEC has done what they did with the wuxi models....European monitors in the 271 line are either the PA version or handpicked and tuned SV versions (at about a 60% price premium). The European PA version can be only partially hardware profiled using Spectraview Profiler - full access to the monitor LUTs is not provided.

However, the PA models can also be profiled at the monitor LUT level with Spectraview II (albeit with a matrix based profile as opposed to the hardware based table profile of Spectraview Profiler which is said to provide greater accuracy).

Problem is....the Spectraview II software is not available for sale outside of the N. American market. Apparently the rationale for all this is someone in NEC believes Europeans are fussier about colour management.... ::)

Eeesh....

Dave M
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There's a solution:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=42040.msg381952#msg381952

And don't worry about the lack of LUT profiles - if the display is hardware calibrated, there's virtually no difference in accuracy of matrix vs LUT type profile.

As for the different policy, I belive the rationale for all this is that in EU we have to pay for standards and certificates.
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There's a solution:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=42040.msg381952#msg381952

And don't worry about the lack of LUT profiles - if the display is hardware calibrated, there's virtually no difference in accuracy of matrix vs LUT type profile.

As for the different policy, I belive the rationale for all this is that in EU we have to pay for standards and certificates.

Yes, the PA with the high-bit 3D LUT seems to have a very linear engine and I would bet using a LUT profile would just add some banding, if anything, and barely improve anything. FOr instance I can pop it into sRGB emulation node and display a raw 0-255 gradient and it has no banding and then I can use soething like COlorimetre HCFR and measure it and setting the primary locations also ends up setting their luminosities very well as well as the secondaries and the saturation curves pretty much exactly match spec, etc.
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It's available in Oz although difficult to find on the web.  The place I eventually got it through kept telling me that NEC said get it off the web but I kept telling them I couldn't find where to get it on the web and that the NEC site kept directing me to the dealer.  They finally provided a physical copy from NEC (with serial #) but when I installed it I had to get a new version anyway as the one on the physical disc didn't support the PA screens.  That's where I found the web download http://www.necdisplay.com/supportcenter/monitors/spectraview2/purchase/.  This may help...
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