LED-Based LCD Display Tested

vrioux writes "Tom's Hardware reviews a pre-production NEC SpectraView 2180WG-LED, a new type of LCD display using LumiLED technology, which is a mixture of LED arrays and lightguides. The technology provides near-perfect (98% accurate) color reproduction and uniformity with no apparent downside. This new backlight technology seems like a clear winner for future LCD panels." From the article: "The 2180WG-LED's superiority is overwhelming. 98% of the colors were perfect; and all were at least correct. The result you see is for calibration for the sRGB standard. Unfortunately, the on screen display (OSD) on the model we got from NEC wasn't finalized, so we weren't able to test at other color temperatures. We've asked for a production model so that we can get a better idea of how it performs at 9300K and 5000K."

Perfect!

[mrbobjoe]

With no apparent downside... except of course for the $6000+ price tag.

Does that mean...

[Signal_Noise]

...that my next monitor will be from the makers of Lite-brite?

Viewing angle

[MarkNijhof]

One thing is for sure it doesn't have the same viewing angle aslcd or plasma ;) -Mark

LCD Display, eh?

[ben_rh]

Nice to see a bit of ASR Redundancy every now and then.

(That's Acronym Suffix Redundancy)

Re:Another promising technology -SED = bad

[Hal9000_sn3]

Back in the day SED stood for Smoke Emitting Diodes.

Yeah, it's good news.

[DavidHOzAu]

From what I've read, I'd like to know what their warranty is on stuck pixels. With a certain manufacturer (samsung Samsung SAMSUNG) you can get LCDs with a warranty so good they'll replace your entire monitor if ONE pixel gets stuck. As for this new NEC monitor, with all that new, extra technology I'd say the chances for stuck pixels would be high until a few more models down the line. Then again I might be saying nonsense since some later bits in the article could say otherwise.

The technology provides... uniformity with no apparent downside.
Yup, the monitor is so uniform in fact that its feature article keeps on crashing FirefoxB2. This is the first time in my experience that an article covering NEC monitors could crash my browser if I'm not using an NEC monitor. Not that I'm paranoid, (my tinfoil hat is in the mail as-we-speak,) but I think they must have something against Samsung.

we weren't able to test at other color temperatures
Just put a bunsen burner under it and I'm sure you'll see some pretty colors in no time.

HDCP support?

[Psykechan]

Aren't we supposed to be doing our duty and demanding [apcstart.com] HDCP on our monitors? I mean who wants to spend $6000+ on a monitor that would not let Windows Vista display HD content on?

Personally, I would just fix that in software. ;)

Re:Does that mean...

[failedlogic]

My monitor *is* a Lite-Brite you insensitive clod!

9300K and 5000K

[k4_pacific]

I have one of these, and with my blast furnace, I was able to test it at 5000K. At 5000K, it burst into flames almost instantly, and all the plastic parts either burned or melted then boiled. All that remained was a charred steel frame and some cinders. At 9300K, the steel frame also vaporized and very little of the remains were recognizeable from the original monitor. All told, I do not recommend using this monitor for such high-temperature applications.