Monitors

[Extrudeface]

NEC Spectraview 231 here. It supports fully sRGB, and I think is 75% NTSC, not sure right now. It comes with an excellent software for calibrating, specially great if you have a good hardware calibrator. I can have it with the amount of brightness I want ( I dislike working at high brightness) yet with the colors' accuracy I like. I work sending stuff to print, and while this is not the best of the best by any means, it allows me to stop getting crazy with color matching and managing, as was before with just average monitors. This is an oldie now, no LED, is TFT, and an ISP monitor. But has great gradients (even while is 8bit, non 10bit. To me the horrid ones are the 6bit + whatever, no matter what trick is used. 8 bit with what this one does to gradients to display them smoothly: fine enough for me) and great everything. Bunch of years, and still doing well. I think is the NEC line in Europe, though. I believe the calibration software is bought apart in the US, I think also the spectraviews come (or used to come) calibrated by default (with quite some good settings, ie, the sRGB profile). Nothing matches your own calibration (with your lighting, etc), of course. I quite recommend the NEC "pro" line (probably the top thing is to get an Eizo, but hey.)