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NEC MultiSync FP950 Totally Flat 19" Monitor (PC/Mac)

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Before we go anyfurther, ignore the last review concerning blurred letters -just take any picture on your computer and enlarge it to 200% and you'll get the idea. Anyway, as an engineering design professional I've found this monitor a delight, it will display higher resolutions at a higher refresh rate than any other 19" monitor, the first thing you'll notice how vibrantly it displays colours and if you set your display to an appropriate resolution ie. not <1280x960 (you don't run a monitor of this size @800x600) you'll be rewarded with incredibly sharp and detailed images. The FP950 also has a suprisingly small footprint considering it's got the flatest display I've ever seen. As far as customer service in the US goes I can't comment, as I bought this monitor in the UK but the 3 year OS warranty certainly provides peace of mind. So if your after a 19" monitor and you're applications demand such performance, it's money well spent.

Firstly, I must state that I think the same with Smiff Desine. The idea of seeing blur letters is completely a rubbish, that monitor is designed especially for CAD\CAM users. Everybody should be knowing this! So you won't work in lower resolutions like 800x600 in any case, by the way let me remind that's a 19" monitor! That NEC FP950 really rocks when you set it to 1024x768 or over. Sharp colours, fast horizontal and vertical refresh, a tube using GRILLPITCH technology, being able to absorb %90 of light etc. and also being a NEC makes this beast THE BEST selection! - especially for people studying engineering like me in my opinion - . Trust me, it's not a waste of money and the technical support is well enough at least to take care of you. Why thinking still?

I have performed an exhaustive search for the ultimate 19" computer monitor. Being a perfectionist, I wanted the best monitor available at a reasonable price that included style, high quality color picture, sharp focus and brightness, complete and easy-to-use picture adjustments, totally flat screen and minimal cabinetry surrounding the cathode ray picture tube to give the appearance of a larger screen without the annoying distraction of an oversized cabinet. Since, it seemed that all of the monitors examined had at least some flaws noted in the reviews, I was pleasantly surprised that they were minor and basically unfounded in this particular NEC monitor. I am totally satisfied with it's performance and it's exceptional style. I already had the NEC Multisync FE700 17" monitor which I equally treasure. There is no other like NEC!

First off, why in the heck would you want to run at those lower resolutions with a 19? I bought mine so i can take advantage of the higher res.

Here is some common sense logic for you, if you want to run those lower res, why dont you buy a Packard Bell 15 inch and save $$???

Johnboy

This is a great monitor. The lines are sharp and text is very clear. The screen controls are outstanding - supporting a number of adjustments to ensure the display is positioned and sized correctly at various resolutions. Glare is much less than it was with my older Dell 17" Trinitron monitor (it being a flat screen with anti-glare coating as well). The cabinet is stylish and compact - fitting in about the same space as the Dell 17" Trinitron monitor it replaced.

Large monitors are designed to give you greater desktop real estate yet display images and text at about the same size as you would typically see on a smaller monitor running at lower resolutions (640x480, 800x600). Just as smaller monitors (15 and 17") are not optimized for higher resolutions (1152x864 and up), larger monitors are not optimized to run at lower resolutions. This isn't isolated to NEC monitors. I've used large monitors from many vendors and they all struggle to display lower resolutions as clearly as they do at resolutions they were design for. However, I wouldn't say it's so bad that you cannot bear to run at the lower resolutions.

If you intend to run at the lower resolutions with a 19 or 21 inch monitor, I would suggest you go test drive a few large monitors at your local retailer just to make sure the clarity is what you expected.

The NEC FP950 is at best an average monitor. The color, contrast, sharpness is pretty good for most items -- i.e. pictures, webpages, video. The problem lies in the sharpness of letters. If you run at either 640x480 or 800x600 resolution, curved letters are blurred. For example, the "b" in blurred is grossly blurred around the curves of the letter. It is very apparent at larger font sizes -- 14 and up. The tech. rep from amazon.com called NEC to explain the problem. NEC's solution was to run at a higher resolution. That solution worked to remove the blur, but I don't consider that a solution given that I want to run the resolution at 800x600. That's comparable to me buying a Ford and reverse doesn't work. I call Ford and they tell me to always park such that I can always pull forward. NEC should advertise that the monitor is only capable of higher resolutions.

Very poor customer/technical support.