Recent content by PostPCMan

I can't hear mine, even from rather close. I can't get my ear right up to it, because it's directly under a shelf, sort of set back in. I also have very quiet equipment, becuase I record and mix music in here (as well as the photo work). My MacPro is not silent, but it's pretty quier when the...

I have no opinion on who insulted whom, or didn't, but would you please take this discussion off-line, or perhaps just end it? It has nothing to do with thie subject of this thread.

Meow, this is what I was trying to explain earlier, but obviously I wasn't clear. Really, there are two different things - calibrating and profiling. Both use an external colorimeter, like the one shown in sosrah's post, which conencts to the computer via usb. The profiling software spends...

The answer is no, to both questions. I don't have a convenient hdtv source, or I'd try it for you. I probably would have tried the low brightness mode if I'd know about it, but I didn't until I saw your post. At this point, the display is just fine, so I don't think I'll mess with it.

The room I work in has lots of north-facing windows. During the day, it's fairly bright but not direct sunlight. I work here both day and night, and at night I keep the room pretty dark. The monitor, set at 120 cd/m2 works well both day and night, so I rarely adjust the brightness. It is...

Sorry, Meow, I'm not sure why I assumed that. Anyway, the comments on the nature of calibration / profiling still stand. If you want accurate, standardized color out of this or any other monitor, having a profiling colorimeter tool is the only way to do it. The only difference with an NEC...

Meow, I think you're misunderstanding calibration. The monitor, as delivered, looks great. What calibration does is to make the colors look more precisely correct when attached to my particular computer, with my particular video card, at the brightness and gamma I want, in my ambient lighting...

I ordered mine from PCConnection and had it in well under a week, even with free shipping. It was my first experience with them, and it was a good one.

I stopped when I couldn't read the text at all. But, I've got 55-year-old eyes. Maybe I could have read another increment or two fifteen years ago. You're right, that the tests are very subjective. Even the boxes test is pretty tough to decide on an exact answer. Take them for what...

I turned Colorcomp on because it seemed like a good idea, but haven't experimented with it further. According to the doc, it makes the display more even, at the expense of brightness. That seemed like a great tradeoff, since I certainly don't need it at maximum brightness, anyway.

I've just posted some comments regarding this monitor for photo use, at http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1154800.

There have been a few posts here and a couple of private messages asking how the new NEC monitor does for photo-editing. The answer, in short, is that it seems wonderful. I've only had the monitor for a couple of days now. I've never used an Eizo, which is the monitor to which the NEC is...

I'm not a gamer, and persistence / response time of little concern to me. Even so, since I'm one of the first with a 2690, I ran the pixel persistence tests, as requested. I ran the tests both with overdrive off and on. These were run on my PC, connected to the 2690 through a kvm into the...

Overdrive is off. The program you pointed me to is for PC, and I'm on my mac now. When I switch back, I'll try to run it.

On my Mac, it looked fine without calibration. On my PC, it looked lousy, but that's probably because the PC was running through a weird profile that I'd created for my old ViewSonic. If you have no color-critical needs (I print fine-art photos, and the screen colors need to match the prints...