Eizo 24.1 inch EV2455 has anyone got one?

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Just noticed this new model from Eizo and was wondering if anyone in the UK had one? There are some videos on YouTube, but they are German, so I don't understand what they're saying.

One video shows terrible panel uniformity especially around the edges, and I am wondering if this is a consequence of the thin-bezel design. Be good to hear from someone with first-hand experience.
 
Is this not it? http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/eizo_ev2455.htm


I do not see what the lure is on a bog standard 60hz IPS? Thier FG2421 is a beast and probably around the same price you could get them for £299. And having used one for sure its the best one out there. Motion is superb, Blacks are insane contrast is 5000:1 most IPS is 1000:1.

Sure viewing angles and colors are not perfect but they come close to IPS and it is 120hz with 240hz motion. What are you after it for? Colors? Gaming? Movies? If Gaming get the Foris.
 
As an artist, all that smooth motion tech is of no use. That's why I currently have a pair of NEC 20WGX2 Pro monitors at the moment. Unfortunately, they are starting to show their age with various faults, and they're doing it when I have no income... which is a bitch when you need to replace two monitors.

As I'm also a programmer, I need screen space, so 16:9 is no use. My PC is a development machine first and foremost, gaming is an afterthought. And if I do play a game, it would never be an FPS, so fast response time is neither here nor there.

So I need accuracy and quality, which means anything other than IPS is not an option. I can spot colour variations between the top and bottom of a panel when I am sat dead centre, it's just something I am very receptive to. But I also need reasonable priced, so the top end stuff is out of my range.

I've already tried to replace these monitors about 6 times up to now, but every time I just end up returning what turn out to be lower quality monitors.

I'll have a look at that review, see what they reckon to it. Thanks for the link.

Edit: Interesting review, my biggest concern after reading it, is the IPS glow. I get very little on my current monitors, and what I do get is red/purple as opposed to the more typical white/yellow on most monitors. I might see if my usual retailer has one on display, failing that, it might be a case of order & return from an online retailer.
 
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It's also 16:9

yeah? is that an issue? You won't find a low-glow 16:10 aspect 24" panel for an affordable price. in fact there are very few low glow panels around. The Eizo EV2450 and Dell U2414H (very similar panels) are the other two recent ones i can think of
 
yeah? is that an issue? You won't find a low-glow 16:10 aspect 24" panel for an affordable price. in fact there are very few low glow panels around. The Eizo EV2450 and Dell U2414H (very similar panels) are the other two recent ones i can think of

Sorry, been knee deep in programming so missed your reply.

Yep, 16:10 is absolutely essential. I have never used anything other than 4:3 or 16:10, 16:9 is simply a useless aspect ratio for anything other than watching YouTube videos or playing games... to me anyway. For what I use my PC for, the extra vertical pixels are a must-have factor.

I actually emailed Eizo because I absolutely cannot comprehend why they would put low-glow technology into a 16:9 monitor aimed more at gamers, and then leave it out of a 16:10 monitor more suited to serious use. Like I said to them, it's fine pandering to the mass gaming market, but there are still people who have to make those games, and do serious work, but can't necessarily justify £550 a piece for a pair of monitors. I have zero income, but my monitor still needs to be of acceptable quality within a reasonable budget.

I bought a pair of NEC EA244WMi monitors on Wednesday, they arrived on Thursday and within an hour, they were back in the box ready for collection. The panel tech is shocking in those screens, IPS glow was bad, but the colour temperature shift across the panel was a disgrace. It was yellowish on the left and bluish on the right. You just can't work with that kind of inconsistency. Even when I'm programming rather than doing graphics, a colour shift is distracting.

I sit here with my 6 year old NEC 20WGX2 Pros, and can't help but think panel tech is going rapidly backwards. I paid £220 each for those when I bought them, and even with their faults, the panels are streets ahead of anything I try to replace them with. So to think I am paying £300 each for something no better than a mediocre gaming screen is baffling. Surely we should be getting that level of panel tech (the 20WGX2 Pro that is), for under £300, but it seems we're not.
 
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Well given a 1920 x 1080 resolution would be an upgrade vertically from your current 1680 x 1050 resolution I wouldn't just dismiss the EV2450 solely on aspect ratio. It's not a gamers screen just because of the aspect ratio used. There is very little development in 16:10 aspect ratio panels at all nowadays and you will find a much better selection in 16:9 format

What about maybe looking at some of the 27" 2560 x 1440 models if you need s higher resolution still?
 
I can't consider 16:9 as anything but a gaming resolution, because it's just no benefit for pretty much any other type of use, except maybe watching YouTube videos. Photographs aren't 16:9 format, applications aren't 16:9 format, BluRay movies are rarely 16:9, music creation isn't any format in particular, so there is just no justification for it in anything I use my PC for. It's a horrible, overly-wide viewing experience that I find unpleasant to use, my brother thinks it's brilliant... horses for courses.

There are three critically important components in my PC... the mouse, the keyboard and the monitors, none of them are ever worth compromising on. I have a Microsoft mouse, because it feels right, I have a Cherry keyboard (a proper switched keyboard that is), because it feels right, and the monitors have to be exactly what I need. I went through four buy & returns before I ended up with my current NECs and have been though more than that in the last 3 years trying to replace them.

Higher resolution just means more pixels to drive for no benefit. All you end up doing, is getting a higher resolution, then scaling your fonts up so you can read the text... which completely negates the higher resolution. I need a dot pitch of around 0.27mm to be comfortable. I have very little gaming software on my PC, but all of that would immediately be hit by a massive performance loss going to 2560x1440, and all for the sake of more pixels. It's all about balancing size, resolution and performance.

I also need two monitors, and two 27" monitors is just impractical, and likely to give me headaches based on the distance I sit from my monitors. I don't buy into all this must-have-more-pixels philosophy, I just need *enough*, and 1920x1200 would be enough... heck, 1680x1050 is enough.

Excessive lateral eye movement is a prime candidate for causing eye-strain and headaches (for me anyway), so I have to balance my distance to viewing width. 2 x 24" is borderline problematic, 2 x 27" would be guaranteed trouble. In an ideal world, I would go for 2 x 22" 16:10 IPS screens @ 1680x1050, but they're even harder to get hold of.

I know it's probably very difficult to understand my rigid stance on size/aspect ratio etc... but when all you've done in your life (32 years of it anyway), is spend up to 18 hours a day looking at monitors, you learn that they are the most important part of your system. It's something I never compromise on... but that's just how I am. That also means that it is a constant stream of buy & return as I go through replacements unfortunately.
 
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