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This article is often cited: http://pcmonitors.info/articles/the-evolution-of-led-backlights/

I have owned two NEC LCD2490WUXi's. The first one I bought new and later sold it because I was in a period when I did not have much need for it. I shouldn't have sold it. It calibrated well and was still nearly new. I later bought a P241W. I found the W-LED harsh and bluish and after about...

+1 I was in your position, OP. And when I noticed that the staff were stuck with crap for monitors, I intervened.

Mine was bought used in 2012 and has 8,300 hours. Most recent Spectraview calibration results: 0.22 cd/m2 at 117.2 cd/m2 intensity, 540:1 contrast, and 0.97 delta-E (target D65 white point, 2.20 gamma, 120 cd/m2 intensity, and native color gamut). I previously owned another unit purchased...

16:10, the Golden Ratio. And I have maintained this preference since my first 19" monitor.

Tried regular W-LED (NEC P242W), liked everything about it except that my eyes apparently are quite sensitive to the excess blue light, i.e., the result of trying to make white light by coloring blue pixels with yellow. I am open to trying GB-R.

Maybe your problem is W-LED. Even the National Institutes of Health has warned about it. Too much blue light leads to macular degeneration. And W-LED emanates too much blue light.

Another 2490 owner here, along with a 2470WNX. I'd like NEC to come out with a 26- or 27-inch 1920x1200, sRGB upgrade from the 2490 that has better contrast while avoiding use of W-LED. Not everyone who wants and can afford a better display is a commercial art professional. Some of us just...

Funny thing is, 4K is wasted on someone sitting 9-10 feet back from the TV but looking at a monitor from two feet away is where it makes a difference.

I sympathize with your predicament. I'm still happily using the Samsung 244t, which uses a similar panel (the Samsung LTM240M2 S-PVA panel). As you have found, one of the compromises required by "progress" has been to give up height or accept about another two inches of lateral width in order...

I recently did some measuring and research to try to determine whether I could get an increase in the size of Word and PDF docs on-screen by moving from my current 24-inch 16:10 displays to a 27-inch 16:9 display. The conclusion was that I would gain about 3/8th's of an inch in the vertical...

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I thought I recalled seeing discussions here about how text was less sharp on S-PVA panels than on IPS or MVA panels, due to what I would call the diagonal structure of S-PVA pixels.

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Thanks for the info. NEC's PA242W page describes GB-R LED as "cutting edge."

Can you be more specific? Thanks.

It's entertaining to watch the manufacturers scramble to deal with this issue. Some of what is being put out amounts to sheer denial, like Eizo's claim that CCFL and LED backlights emit about the same amount of blue light. Other sources disagree...

Reference should be to GB-R LED backlight monitors, described by NEC as "cutting edge." Their W-LED sRGB 1920x1200 P242W model lists for $749. Their GB-R LED wide gamut 1920x1200 PA242W lists for $1,049. That's the price differential I mentioned.

The foregoing is from page 1 of this thread. Are BenQ's low-blue-light options are just a gimmick? Good question. I see one web page Iiyama also touting reduced blue light but offering no specifics. If the manufacturers see a buck in competing to push low-blue-light, it will be like glasnost...

I was curious about whether a 27-inch 1920-x1080 display would mean some additional vertical size vs. my current Samsung 244t. That might allow Microsoft Word and PDF pages to be displayed a bit larger. I looked at the BenQ EW2740L but their specs show the overall height from the top of the...

It's interesting to see that BenQ has decided to turn lemons into lemonade by touting its eyesight-friendly designs, eliminating PWM dimming and providing user options to reduce blue light emitted by W-LED displays such as the EW2740L. "Text" provides for a 60% reduction in blue light, and...

Thanks, NCX. When I pointed out that the original question refers to "overall" quality, I listed concerns about W-LED, the step down from 16:10 to 16:9, and continuing problems with scaling that make it difficult to use high resolution displays for text and spreadsheet work. You point to...

Appreciate your reply but it's unspecific. Name three examples of what you claim and I'll research it and tell you whether I think they live up to, say, the Samsung 244t.

I take this to mean "better than other VA panels in the past." If so, which ones? The question concerned "overall" panel quality. A-MVA vs S-PVA was probably an improvement in text sharpness. 16:9 vs 16:10 was a step backwards. W-LED is biased toward blue light and raises concerns about...

Replacement of CCFL by LED has not been an unalloyed good. It depends. W-LED: Is its color accuracy greater than CCFL? What are the color tradeoffs? Is it kinder on the eyes? (i.e., concerns that too much exposure to blue light accelerates macular degeneration) If the RGB version of...

It won't make you feel any better to realize that you also could have laid in a second 245T in reserve. New and low-mileage secondhand units were still available until about two years ago, well after it had become apparent that most "advances" in LCD technology were going to be either...

For writing, spreadsheets, and photo editing, I think LCD technology peaked some time ago. Recent changes are problematic or downright negative. The A-TW polarizer came and went, and ever since there has been endless agonizing about coatings, glow, color shifts, etc. LEDs have come on strong...

It's worth noting that the 26.5" diagonal is achieved by shrinking the horizontal dimension vs. a 24" 1920X1200 display such as the Samsung 244t, which is 20.375 inches wide across the inside of the bezel. Eizo says that this display will be 18.73 inches (475.7 mm) wide. That explains the...

16:10 (24 inch) so I can put two 8.5x11 pages alongside each other on the screen at 1:1 size and have just a tiny little bit of unused space vertically and horizontally. Example: A Word document in which I am writing, alongside a PDF file containing research.

Seven. One Samsung 244t in use. One HP LP2465 in use. Two Samsung 244t, never used. One HP LP2465 lightly used. One refurb NEC LCD2470WNX, presumably lightly used. One NEC LCD2490Wuxi lightly used (about 8,000 hrs as I recall) 16:10 forever.

I bought a couple of Asus BM6875 desktop computers a year ago, partly because of the claims they made on their web site regarding the use of higher-quality components, something you hardly ever see other manufacturers touting (because they can't). I have been happy with the desktop units. I...

BTW, the Samsung 244t spec sheet says that it is a 10-bit display. The 244t uses the same panel as the HP LP2465 (a Samsung LTM240M2 panel).

From HP LP2465 spec sheet: Color Gamut 72%. I am using one right now. It's sRGB. So are the Samsung 244t and NEC LCD2470WNX, both of which I also own. My recollection is that we didn't begin to see wide gamut commonly offered until right after these models. The Samsung 245t, for instance...

About arms length, plus or minus. After a lifetime of not needing glasses in the house, I now need them for tiny detail, but not (yet) for stuff that's 20-24 inches away. I use 1920x1200 24-inch displays and set up my computers to display text at 125%. My discovery of the day is that Word...

That may be what has to occur. Or just replace the lamp. I wonder if there is something different about LED displays that make them more sensitive to EMI. This never happened with several CCFL displays that have occupied this position next to the same lamp.

No. The monitor just went dead and would not turn on. I had to unplug both the computer and monitor for a minute. As soon as the monitor was plugged back in, the "NEC" screen came on and then when the computer booted up everything proceeded normally. I've been researching this a bit and...

Here's a strange one. I put a P242W to use about ten days ago and it has worked well except for one oddity. A few days in, I noticed that it just went dead, or at least I was unable to determine what if anything I had done that caused it to go dead. The power button would not restart it...

I found the following article useful: http://pcmonitors.info/articles/the-evolution-of-led-backlights In particular, the graphs suggest that a GB-R backlight might appear less bluish (yes, I know, to some observers) than W-LED.

The P242W is actually an W-LED display, is it not? It would be of interest whether a GR-R LED display would look different to me. I guess the only way I would find that out is to buy one. Helluva sales proposition, but that's the way it is. At least we have clarified that the "spectral...