NEC-Mitsubishi 2180UX: hardware calibration like CG21?
NEC-Mitsubishi 2180UX: hardware calibration like CG21?
- Subject: NEC-Mitsubishi 2180UX: hardware calibration like CG21?
- From: Hip Hip Hooray <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 03:17:07 -0800 (PST)
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I've noticed that the NEC-Mitsubishi European entity
is coming out with an LCD called the Spectraview 2180
that is essentially identical to a 2180UX with
hardware calibration support like the Eizo CG21. (You
can load LUT data into the monitor instead of the
graphics card.)
http://www.spectraview.nec-mitsubishi.com/index_en.html
NEC-Mitsubishi North America has no plans to release
this product in the USA. Lacie is introducing the 321
which is identical to the 2180UX except for being
colored blue with the Lacie name on it and shipping
with a hood:
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10503
Looking at NEC-Mitsubishi's support site, it looks
like the 2180UX might actually support some sort of
hardware calibration like the Eizo CG21: see the
GammaComp documentation:
http://www.necmitsubishi.com/gammacomp/body2.htm
Unfortunately, this software seems to be Windows-only
at the moment. It mentions "adjustment" of the
monitor's 10-bit internal lookup table to reduce color
banding problems, but I don't know if "adjustment"
means you can actually directly load the .icc LUT data
you obtain when profiling with a package like Eye One
Display.
Besides the calibration issue, has anyone here used a
2180UX and can comment on its quality? If
NEC-Mitsubishi is labelling this LCD with its
respected Spectraview trademark and Lacie has decided
to do an oem version also, it might not be the worse
Photoshop LCD. I downloaded an .icc profile from the
support site and the gamut is essentially the same as
a CRT's.
I'm curious which LCD panel the Eizo CG21 uses; from
the specs it might actually be the same panel. The
only other 21.3" panels I know of are the Samsung one
in the 213T (and the 213T has a horrible color gamut
and can be ruled out) and the Hitachi panel in the
Planar PX212M. (When CNET reviewed the PX212M they
said it was better than the 20" Cinema display, so who
knows?) Eizo quotes 40-50ms for the CG21 while
Mitsubishi quotes 20ms, but I've heard that in
practice the 2180UX, the Eizo L885, and other LCDs
with the 10-bit gamma trick subjectively have higher
responses than otherwise, so maybe Eizo is honest
about 40ms-50ms while Nec-Mitsu is merely "technically
correct" that the 20ms is accurate for the panel but
not accurate for the display when being driven by the
10-bit circuitry.
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