Hi all
in regards to john paul's question.. and lots of rant..
The Dell 2005fpw screen surface has (you may have noticed on other screens too) pearl like minature sands texture, very nice for working with (photoshop/illustrator/word) as you feel your working with a surface of pure and balanced white, it is substance and subtle texture,. when you the read text, the text is on a surface and it reeds more like paper. working closely to the screen is great because the lights glare is also filtered somewhat more than with opticlear.
With the Opticlear all you see is the image and no surface, just like a high quality CRT and even looks as so the image is just floating there with a great sense of the panel being more like a window into another world, and more immersive for video editing and computer games, it just helps to add that xtra vibrance to the spectrum. I think the opticlear screen is a triumph.
I can see minute amounts of afterglow with fast pased games, and you really have to look carefully to spot it. and mostly its not visable under most instances. So it's much less than the 2405 afterglow about 70-80 % less, and a better handling of colour in my book. A most impressive feat.
This panal at the moment is proberbly the clearest most accurate representation of what my PC is attempting to display. that I have owned also, it's the lightest in weight. I have a very slight issue with light warmth in the colour reproduction but we really are talking slight here.
monitors owned within family
mitsubushi diamond 720
mistubushi 720 diamond pro
Mistubushi 900 u Diamond pro
Mistubushi 2020 Diamond Pro
Dell 2405 fpw (philips panel ?)
Dell 2005 fpw
Sony 17" LCD
Nec 20wgx2
The nec 20wgx2 Definately takes the biscuit in clarity and resposiveness but in my eyes the Dell 2005fpw and the Sony 17" screen that we own, have a slight advantage in more natural colour reproduction, but thier both no way near as vibrant and as lively as the nec20wgx2.
all mistubushi CRT's are on par with 2005fpw philips and the sony 17" in terms of colour reproduction, but at higher contrast ratios.
A negative thought, (and yes I am picky!!)
but why have plastic painted silver bezel ? it looks like its trying to look like silver, If they had to have it silver they should have used alluminium and put the price up to compensate. black plastic is honest and simple and doesn't draw attention to itself, it is only a bezel and its the panel that counts, so why draw attention to a bezel by painting it silver?, like its the new beige or somin
Bring on an all black one nec, please! perhaps keep buttons plastic/silver if you must.
My backlight bleed has gone down, but its still there and slightly noticable on a black background and I'm going to ring Sarah anyway, if the issue should be reported within 2 weeks, its best to be safe than sorry.
larzy
- it basically affected all corners (almost to meet in the middle!) progressing all over my screen whilst watching four episodes of Lost2- which isnt a problem using normal windows and playing most games - its REALLY noticeable when playing a movie though as they are often dark.
Glad to see that this thread is still live & kicking ... and I'm sure that it will progress even more until people find out what a great piece of technology this monitor really is.
Of course, little bit of warming up is required for the colours to reach that luxurious level 
As the side note, I would recommend that you install the monitor driver from the supplied CD. When you properly install the driver, it should be visible in the device manager as "Nec MultiSync 20WGX2(Digital)". Also, you may find the ICM colour profile on the supplied CD and after the successful installation it should be present as "nl20wgx2" (in the colour management tab of the display properties). Other way around is that you simply install the NaviSet software:
