Review of The NEC P221W Multi Sync Monitor
NEC P221W Review
NEC has made top quality monitors such as the NEC P221W for many years. I have always found them to be very good, but also very pricey. The NEC P221W has a screen designed for artists and photographers, therefore, it includes many features to ensure accurate color representation and an impressively wide viewing angle, (178-degree viewing angle). Its boasts of an internal 10-bit programmable lookup table, which stores correspondences between the input signal and the signal that must be sent to the matrix to achieve the necessary color, allow the display of 16.7 million colors. And, according to NEC, it achieves a very high 96 percent coverage of Adobe RGB. It is definitely not a cheap LCD monitor.
Controls for the screen include a power button, a blue power-on indicator light, a dedicated button for the selection of input, Menu, and two sets of arrow buttons, one left and right and one each up and down.
And NEC is doing more than bragging with these specs. In DisplayMate testing, the P221W excelled at every challenge thrown its way. In a White-Level Saturation test, it scored higher than any monitor have seen in a while, showing that it excels at displaying whites. It also displayed darker grays, blacks, and color with supreme accuracy, no surprise for a monitor of this price. It came as no surprise the ease of playing Doom 3 with this screen, considering how well it displays blacks and darker grays. The S-PVA matrix, though, means this display isn’t the best choice for fast-paced gaming due to an 8-millisecond pixel response time, it performed well on a DVD movie test using a currently available movie. You can find cheap desktop monitor screens in the market that offer faster pixel-response times, and I wouldn't recommend this screen specifically for viewing movies.
When you compare with other LCDs in this class, the P221W is an admirable performer. It displays the higher end of the gray scale better than the which has a comparably priced HP LP2275w, (although the LP2275w does offer four USB ports). For those looking for a screen of about this size and are not bothered about perfect color representation, I suggest the Asus VH222H. The Asus VH222H is a cheap LCD monitor that performs well, offers much more connectivity, and will cost you hundreds of dollars less than the $499 price tag.
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US $2.94
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