Comments on: Screening screens: why you don’t want to buy a Cinema Display (edited).

By: Tekno_boy

Tekno_boy — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:31:10 +0000

I have used allot of screen in the past,including an Apple Cinema Display and Eizo/Lacie.

I found that most people don’t know about screen calibration, can’t actually see hue differences and don’t know what they are doing on the computer side so it doesn’t matter much anyway.

The best way is to take a photo that you know is accurate (and better yet have a colour accurate hard copy) to a store where you are able to view it. Then you can decide which one simply looks better to your tastes and production method.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:15:52 +0000

And it was only like $250

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:14:53 +0000

“The Dell is almost guaranteed to be mediocre, as are most things Dell.”

Not true at all. I just got a Dell monitor and the color is fantastic. It’s a 1908WFP. A little green at first, but after calibrating it properly it’s way better than the Apple Cinema Displays I used to work on.

By: Bond

Bond — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 20:22:14 +0000

Well, I just purchased a 30″ ACD and I’m extremely happy with it. I was guaranteed by Apple’s business unit that there would be no dead or stuck pixels and that’s exactly what I received.

If you’re after high-gamut displays, purchase an NEC rather than LaCie. NEC make LaCie’s displays (multisync 90 or Spectraview), but without the blue tax. Why anyone would want a blue display for colour critical work is beyond me.

Lastly, there are plenty of articles out there that state extremely high gamut displays may not be all they’re cracked up to be. Because of the limitations in typical video cards, slight adjustments in colour can result in huge shifts on the display.

Search for Karl Lang’s Betterlight forum post for detailed explanation.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:40:56 +0000

I can’t say I’ve had much experience with a variety of TFT Monitors but that Dell E248WFP you’ve been looking at is the next size up from my E228WFP, which is 22″. It seems to be the same aside from on the resolution front, I haven’t really came across any problems and would probably get another one (unless budget allowed me to get better).