NEC EA294WMi Review
by Chris Heinonen on February 10, 2014 6:00 AM ESTThe NEC EA294WMi encompasses 68.67% of the AdobeRGB colorspace. As sRGB is 68.9% that is within any margin of error for measurements on the primary and secondary colors. So we see full sRGB coverage, but nothing beyond as we are using regular white LED backlights here.
Input on the NEC is measured using the Leo Bodnar lag tester. Since it is a 1080p display (albeit wider) it should be very accurate when measured with a 1080p source. The average lag for the three measurement positions is 27.16ms, or 1.6 frames with a 60Hz game.
This isn’t fast compared to other displays so the NEC might not be the best monitor for serious gaming, or even the best 21:9 monitor for it. The ASUS MX299Q, with the same aspect ratio and resolution, has only 9 ms of lag and the LG EA93 is under 15ms. Usually I think of the 21:9 displays as good for gaming, with a wider field-of-view, but I’d have to recommend the other models over the NEC for this.
Power Use measures at 48 watts at maximum backlight and 18 watts at minimum backlight. Again these numbers are okay but the ASUS and LG both perform better among 21:9 displays. The candelas per watt is very low at minimum brightness but only because the NEC display has such a low minimum light level. I will start to collect data at an additional value, like 80 cd/m2, to make this more accurate. 18W minimum makes the NEC look much worse as it's minimum output is so low; the ASUS uses less power (16W) with 63 cd/m2 instead of NEC's 8 cd/m2.
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DanNeely - Monday, February 10, 2014 - link
I seem to've missed the 21:9 1440p CES reports; and the only thing I'm finding Googling now is some pre-CES rumors about a 34" Dell monitor. Who else is playing in the 1440p crazy wide segment?REALfreaky - Monday, February 10, 2014 - link
http://www.anandtech.com/tag/219DanNeely - Monday, February 10, 2014 - link
There's no CES 2014 coverage in that link at all and all the reviews are for the existing 2560x1080 panel.marcosears - Thursday, October 9, 2014 - link
NEC sure is trying, but just can't meet the standards of some of the great monitors that have come out. /Marco from http://www.consumertop.com/best-monitor-guide/Olaf van der Spek - Monday, February 10, 2014 - link
> DVI SLWhat's the use of DVI SL on this display? It can't drive 2560 x 1080 can it?
> CES this year saw the introduction of 21:9 displays with 1440 lines of vertical resolution as opposed to 1080, making it a more direct replacement for 27” displays.
3360 x 1440? That's nice!
JarredWalton - Monday, February 10, 2014 - link
You can use single-link to drive standard 1080p resolutions (1920x1080), so it's just another input. VGA and HDMI can't handle 2560x1080 either AFAIK (unless it's HDMI 1.4 maybe?) but people still have old devices around that use those.DanNeely - Monday, February 10, 2014 - link
HDMI 1.4 offers it; but AFAIK monitor support has been a problem because only offering 1.3 on the monitor allows them to use same hardware as DVI instead of having to use a decoder that's clocked 2x as fast.nathanddrews - Monday, February 10, 2014 - link
VGA delivers 2560x1600@75Hz on my FW900.Death666Angel - Monday, February 10, 2014 - link
And unless you have something like a Matrox, I bet the picture looks awful. No recent AMD/nVidia card I know of has decent VGA output. And 75Hz is really on the low side for a CRT for me. Below 80 gave me headaches and eye strain in some situations.nathanddrews - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - link
The PQ is excellent for gaming, however that resolution is slightly less crisp for text near the edges of the screen. I usually just run 1920x1200 since it is uniformly crisp and offers a 96Hz refresh rate, which is great for twitch games and perfect for viewing film content.