{"id":2165,"date":"2018-01-19T13:41:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T05:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2018-01-19T13:52:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T05:52:51","slug":"farewell-to-nec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/2018\/01\/19\/farewell-to-nec\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to NEC?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In mid-2015, I wrote about monitors for high quality imaging work<\/a>. Obviously, these kinds of monitors are not frequent purchases, so I have not kept track of that scene for some time. Visiting Image Science<\/a>‘s website again recently, I noticed that NEC apparently changed its dead pixel policy<\/a>\u00a0for the worse in 2017. Previously, NEC had a ‘zero dead pixel policy’ in place; together with the high quality of its monitors and their lower prices compared to Eizo monitors, this made NEC<\/a> a leading challenger to Eizo<\/a> in this market.<\/p>\n

NEC Australia’s FAQ<\/a>\u00a0does not say anything about NEC’s dead pixel policy, and (so far) I have not been able to find any other relevant information on NEC Australia’s website. NEC’s global FAQ<\/a> notes that NEC monitors comply with an ISO standard that does allow a certain number of dead or otherwise malfunctioning pixels. For professional-level equipment, this is bad\u2014and I dare say most professional photographers and visual artists would consider it to be simply unacceptable.<\/p>\n

Does this mean ‘farewell to NEC’ as a serious contender in the professional monitor market? I think so. But I do hope that they will review their decision, and go back to their previous dead pixel policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In mid-2015, I wrote about monitors for high quality imaging work. Obviously, these kinds of monitors are not frequent purchases, so I have not kept track of that scene for some time. Visiting Image Science‘s website again recently, I noticed that NEC apparently changed its dead pixel policy\u00a0for the worse in 2017. Previously, NEC had… Continue reading Farewell to NEC?<\/span> →<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[31,189,191,187,190],"class_list":["post-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equipment","tag-computer-equipment","tag-computer-monitors","tag-eizo","tag-image-science","tag-nec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}