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Equipment & Techniques => Computers & Peripherals => Topic started by: KirbyKrieger on April 11, 2011, 07:09:18 pm

Title: NEC sale ... worthwhile?
Post by: KirbyKrieger on April 11, 2011, 07:09:18 pm

I've been toying with getting a SpectraView compatible monitor for use at home.  (I currently have a old Dell whose main function is to remind me how happy I am to have a NEC2490WUXi2 at work -- I can't do any editing on the Dell.)  Got an email from NEC with some refurbished monitors and some 10%-off monitors and some discontinued monitors.  Unfortunately, I don't know one from the other.  I'm looking for a good deal, on a relatively inexpensive (<$500) monitor that I can calibrate with my Color Munki Photo and Nec's SpectraView II software which will provide color as accurate as my 2490WUXi2.

Here is, I think, the whole list (http://necdisplay.com/category/desktop-monitors).

Here is a discontinued 22" monitor for $199 (LCD225WXM-BK (http://necdisplay.com/p/lcd225wxm-bk?utm_source=Web_promo&utm_medium=April_showers0411&utm_term=necdisplay.com&utm_content=Web_promo&utm_campaign=LCD225WXM-BK))

Here is a refurbished slightly newer version (http://necdisplay.com/p/desktop-monitors/lcd2490wuxi2-bk-r) of my current monitor (LCD2490WUXI2-BK-R) for $539

How can I tell which NEC monitors are as good as what I have, and work with the SpectraView II software?  (Sorry to be so ignorant -- hardware blanches my critical faculties.)

Thanks.   :)

Title: Re: NEC sale ... worthwhile?
Post by: digitaldog on April 11, 2011, 07:16:36 pm

Of the two you mention, you want the 2490 which will use SpectraView for calibration. Its NOT a wide gamut display if that matters to you.