yadillah Posted September 22, 2008 Share #1 Â Posted September 22, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) I am becoming more and more confused!! I think I want to buy a NEC 2490wuxi monitor, following what Sean Reid said about them. In Australia it is unavailable with the Spectraview profiling software. I thought I would try and buy the software separately. This is impossible in Australia. Now I have found that the Spectraview software will not work with the multisync monitor. All very confusing. I can have the multisync monitor modified, but the price doubles. My question is, is it really worth going for the Spectraview, or is the standard one OK. Also, I process a lot of black and white, and use a Macbook Pro. I look forward to some comments. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted September 22, 2008 Posted September 22, 2008 Hi yadillah, Take a look here NEC Multisync vs NEC Spectraview. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
Venkman Posted September 22, 2008 Share #2 Â Posted September 22, 2008 AFAIK, it's virtually the same monitor. The Spectraview series has it's own hardware profiling software and hardware (Eye One I think) and writes the profiling information directly to the monitor's hardware. Â I'd suggest that you get a Multisync with a profiling solution not depending on the hardware (which makes IMO more sense anyway). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sean_reid Posted September 22, 2008 Share #3 Â Posted September 22, 2008 Just to clarify....if you buy the monitor itself in Australia and then order Spectraview from the states, NEC is saying the latter won't work with the former? Spectraview is certainly worth using (for the reasons I explained in the article) but if it becomes too much hassle you certainly could use a profiling system that writes to the computer OS rather than to the monitor itself. That's not ideal but it might work well enough. Â Cheers, Â Sean Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
yadillah Posted September 22, 2008 Author Share #4 Â Posted September 22, 2008 Sean, thanks for your adcice. I have been told that the non Spectraview monitors are different to the Spectraview ones. In other words,if I manage to buy the Spectraview software, it will not work with the cheaper monitor. The 2490 would still (I think) be a very good monitor, but will it be as good for b&w? Because of where I live, I haven't the chance to preview them. Thanks, Â Malcolm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 22, 2008 Share #5 Â Posted September 22, 2008 I am becoming more and more confused!!I think I want to buy a NEC 2490wuxi monitor, following what Sean Reid said about them. In Australia it is unavailable with the Spectraview profiling software. I thought I would try and buy the software separately. This is impossible in Australia. Now I have found that the Spectraview software will not work with the multisync monitor. All very confusing. I can have the multisync monitor modified, but the price doubles. My question is, is it really worth going for the Spectraview, or is the standard one OK. Also, I process a lot of black and white, and use a Macbook Pro. I look forward to some comments. Â I was in a similar situation and was very tempted after reading Sean Reids report on the monitor.It turns out that the NEC 2490 is not even available in England. I have finished up buying Eizo.I have to say that Sean`s review was to the same high standard as all his work.The cost of an annual subscription is about the same as 3 issues of the average mag. but with about 100x the content on equipment reviews. IMHO. Brian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sean_reid Posted September 22, 2008 Share #6  Posted September 22, 2008 Sean, thanks for your adcice. I have been told that the non Spectraview monitors are different to the Spectraview ones. In other words,if I manage to buy the Spectraview software, it will not work with the cheaper monitor.The 2490 would still (I think) be a very good monitor, but will it be as good for b&w? Because of where I live, I haven't the chance to preview them. Thanks,  Malcolm  Hi Malcolm,  That's odd because my understanding was that SpectraView simply added a puck and software. I guess NEC themselves would have the authoritative answer on this. You might want to double-check with another NEC dealer about this. Perhaps the models differ from country to country?  Cheers,  Sean Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sean_reid Posted September 22, 2008 Share #7  Posted September 22, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) I was in a similar situation and was very tempted after reading Sean Reids report on the monitor.It turns out that the NEC 2490 is not even available in England. I have finished up buying Eizo.I have to say that Sean`s review was to the same high standard as all his work.The cost of an annual subscription is about the same as 3 issues of the average mag. but with about 100x the content on equipment reviews. IMHO.Brian  Thanks very much Brian.  Cheers,  Sean Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
yadillah Posted September 23, 2008 Author Share #8 Â Posted September 23, 2008 Hi Sean, Â As far as I can find out here in Australia, Spectraview Profiling cannot be done on the standard monitor without some alteration to the hardware. This can be done, but the price goes from A$1600 to A$3100. Quite some difference!! It appears that the monitors available here are shipped from Europe, and, if they are different to those in US, would explain why the Spectraview software is not available here. NEC America will only ship it in USA. I am wndering if the standard 2490 is OK, (abeit not as good as the Specraview one), and if it would be OK for black and white. Thanks for your time. Â Malcolm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venkman Posted September 23, 2008 Share #9  Posted September 23, 2008 Sean, thanks for your adcice. I have been told that the non Spectraview monitors are different to the Spectraview ones. In other words,if I manage to buy the Spectraview software, it will not work with the cheaper monitor.The 2490 would still (I think) be a very good monitor, but will it be as good for b&w? Because of where I live, I haven't the chance to preview them. Thanks,  Malcolm  Malcolm,  it is the same monitor - you just need to enter a "secret" menu and enable the "write to hardware" option. But then again, I failed at all tries to get the software legally from the US of A. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sean_reid Posted September 23, 2008 Share #10  Posted September 23, 2008 Hi Sean, As far as I can find out here in Australia, Spectraview Profiling cannot be done on the standard monitor without some alteration to the hardware. This can be done, but the price goes from A$1600 to A$3100. Quite some difference!! It appears that the monitors available here are shipped from Europe, and, if they are different to those in US, would explain why the Spectraview software is not available here. NEC America will only ship it in USA. I am wndering if the standard 2490 is OK, (abeit not as good as the Specraview one), and if it would be OK for black and white. Thanks for your time.  Malcolm  I'm surprised that they expect people in Australia to jump through all these hoops. The monitor itself is very good so maybe you'd want to try it with a traditional profiling program.  Cheers,  Sean Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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