14 DAY TRIAL // It seems that professionals are getting quite a few new professional displays packed full of features and technologies meant to make their life both easier and more interesting, like EIZO's newest ColorEdge series model.
It would appear that NEC is not the only company that used a high-grade professional display as a means to provide the web with some IT news these days.
Since CeBIT 2011 is proving to be far less crowded and news-producing than one may expect, it fell to all willing companies to get creative.
That said, EIZO issued an official press release in which it describes its newest professional display, one named ColorEdge CG275W.
It is not as large as NEC's beast, which has a diagonal of 30 inches, but it does come fairly close with its display size of 27 inches.
EIZO utilized an IPS (in-plane switching) LCD panel that has a contrast ratio of 850:1, a brightness of 270 nits and a native resolution of 2560 x 1440 pixels, meaning a 16:9 aspect ratio.
What's more, the GTG (gray to gray) response time is of 6 ms while the viewing angles, both the horizontal and vertical ones, are of 178 degrees.
Normally, such professional displays need graphics professionals to get their hands on a separate calibration utility in order to maximize color accuracy.
EIZO decided to spare them the effort and time by implementing a self-calibration hardware feature and even offering the ColorNavigator calibration software as part of the bundle.
In addition, 97% of the Adobe RGB color space is covered, the Gamma curve is calibrated on the factory line and various extras are present, to handle fluctuations in brightness and chroma uniformity, improve the panel’s additive color mixture and stabilize brightness when passing in and out of sleep mode.
The price was not mentioned, but the announcement did say shipments should start this month.