I have a NEC Spectraview 2690 in my studio that I'm calibrating with the US version of the Spectraview software. I'm running that on a MacPro Tower. So I took my old G5 Tower to my country house and a friend said I could take her old Sony Artisan for a while, but I'm realizing it's an old and heavy monitor so I'm thinking of getting one of the "cheaper" NEC monitors to my country house since I'm more than happy with my Spectraview 2690. There are a lot of different options to what I can get, I would like to be able to calibrate it with my US version of the Spectraview software etc. I've heard that I can get a Multisync version instead of a Spectraview monitor and still be able to calibrate it.

For a Spectraview 2190 I have to pay 10.396 SEK +tax here in Sweden, that's about US $1.706 But if I get the MultiSync 2190UXp PE it says that it come with calibration etc and then I only pay about US $1.312 Would that be the same thing? Can I calibrate the Multisync with my US Spectraview software?

A cheaper monitor is the MultiSync LCD2470WNX, it's only about US $905 here in Sweden, would that one work for me?

Or should I just get the MultiSync version of the 2690? It's about $1.575 so that's a lot more money than the smaller monitors but still cheaper than my Spectraview 2690...

All suggestions are more than welcome!

Håkan

You can download Spectraview II from NEC"s US site, you have to enter a monitor serial number when you install it from what I understand. You will have a different monitor so you should be OK.

You will need the puck to calibrate with. From other posts it seems to be the same device as the Eye-One Puck.

Paul C

Spectraview II calibrates following Nec panels:
1980SXi, 1980FXi, 1990SX, 1990SXi, 1990SXp, 2090UXi, 2180UX, 2180WG-LED (Reference 21), 2190UXi, 2190UXp, 2490WUXi, 2690WUXi

It doesn't matter if it's Spectraview, or Multisync version. In US there's no Spectraview version at all. For example - I calibrate my "normal" Multisync 2190UXi with SV II without any problem. I also calibrated my friend's Multisync 2690WUXi with the same result.

You also don't have to pay for a nonsense PE version, that is just a normal Multisync with Eye-One colorimeter included.

2470WNX is just an usual 8 bit panel, without the posibility of any hardware calibraton

What do you mean, in the US there is no Spectraview Vr?

You can go to the NEC website, enter North America, and download the software for either Mac or Win and they show a current version number.

I have done it twice now.

Paul C

I already have the US version of the Spectraview software, I calibrate my Spectraview 2690 with it. I use both the Eye1 Photo and Eye1 monitor with a recepie that I got from Andrew Rodney.

So my question is more witch monitor will be best as a second set up in my counry house, that I can also calibrate with the US version of the Spectraview software?

So basically I should stay away from the 2470WNX? And look in to the rest?

Does anybody know why I can't get the 2490WUXi in Europe? Or can I?

Håkan

It's not so simple

Nec Europe has a different policy.
American Spectraview version - which is only a little bit more expansive - is just a Nec 90 series panel with the Spectraview II profiler included. You can buy the profiler and the panel separetly and it's the same.
In Europe "Spectraview" means, that the panel has a special blessing from Nec and it's dignified to be a hardware calibrated panel for color critical applications. The european profiler is different - Spectraview display 4 - and it works with "blessed" Spectraview panels from Nec exclusively - a normal 90 series Nec won't work with it, unless you hack it (and you loose the warranty if you do). Of course - Nec's special blessing costs: you can get a "normal" Nec 2690WUXi for ~1000 euro, while Spectraview2690 is much more expansive - 1700 euro.



I'd stay away from 2470WNX and took something from the list. Unfortunately, 2490WUXi is not available in Europe (another bad joke)

2490WUXi in Europe: 1030 € at http://www.tftshop.net/product_info.php/products_id/682
He shipped also to Italy without problems, but you have to call him on the phone.

The link goes to 2690WUXi, not 2490WUXi.

Then that's more than what I pay for the Multisync 2690 here in Sweden.

I was just thinking if I can get away with one of the smaller cheaper ones?

I found a used Multisync 2090 UXi with the PE kit or whatever the calibration kit is called. But it was hardly used so the guy wants the equialent of €570 or US $900 and I think that's a lot of money. Since he paid it with sales tax (only 25% in Sweden...). But if I buy it from him I can't deduct any taxes since he's a private person. So then when I pay my taxes I have to pay 25% to the government on top of that...

Nonsense - a new 2090UXi costs ~600€. Since you alredy have the colorimeter and SVII profiler, you don't need the stupid PE version at all.