I've decided to add some visual content to my original story about the revival of the LCD2690. After installing the 2690 in my workstation I decided to send my story to NEC support to see if anyone might find it interesting and perhaps find an answer or two. The fellow who replied asked if I had any pics I could send. I recalled that I had posted the initial issue with the 2690 on LuLa back in 2010 when the problem was getting to the point of no return. At least that's what I thought then
. It required bit of searching, but I finally found the initial camera shot I used then(dated 2010-09-10) and also included a screenshot of the
NEW/old 2690 (dated 2020-02-11). In the final reply from NEC the tech wrote that he had spent quite some time trying to discern what could at least be some sort of explanation for the original issue with the 2690. Otherwise he had absolutely no idea why or how the 2690 had somehow
healed itself. The only reason he and apparently another tech could think of was that perhaps it was due to moisture getting in the display. My last reply to him was that the 2690 was used in a rather low RH environment and had definitely never been exposed to any sort of moisture, and that I was the only person with access to that display. He also mentioned that of course both the PA271 and the LCD2690 were past warranty, to which I replied that my only reason for sending my story was to perhaps find if he had ever come across such a situation in which a display had obviously healed itself after approximately 10 years in storage.
OK, enough of that. The first pic is the rather bad camera shot of the LCD2690 with what I refer to as a smudge issue at the right side, before I entombed it in 2010. The second pic is a screenshot of the 2690 after I had resurrected it and found that it was performing as new. Although I realize that a screenshot will not exhibit any issue within the display itself, this screenshot does however show what I am seeing as sit in front of the display. It shows the fact that the issue in the first pic has indeed been
healed during the time the LCD2690 was in storage. The third pic is a camera shot(dated 2020-02-11) of the PA271W that I entombed last week and replaced with the NEW/old LCD2690, which is still operating very nicely, although each time I turn it on I wonder if this is the time it will start to show the old issue again. At this point my story comes to a very happy ending, albeit a story of intrigue and unanswered questions. Of course the only important question was answered last week when I first installed the LCD2690 after 10 years of rest, to find a very unexpected present.