Like that NEC's high gamut displays are getting some narrow bezel options. Dislike the difference in bezel size on the bottom border, it makes portrait mode monitors look a bit odd due to different bezels sizes on top and bottom.
Given NEC's pedigree with high gamut displays, I'd like to see how an "HDR 1000" or higher display offering would fare under their branding. Would probably be pretty nice.
How are those narrow bezels? Are you sure it's 1mm and not 1cm? The marketing pictures are confusing as hell: on some picture, the top and left bezel appear much smaller than the right and bottom. On other, left and right appear the same...
If you're looking at the pictures on this page; the all appear to be renders.
The top one looks like it was screwed up and the layer that's supposed to be the LCD image was accidentally extended to the left edge instead of stopping where the bezel is supposed to begin. compared with the others it also appears that one has the image too high, so that only the right bezel is the correct size. (Based on the assumption that all the other renders do have the right size for the bezel shown.)
In the second render the monitor is rotated enough that if don't look closely and realize you're seeing both the front bezel and the right side of the monitor it looks like the right bezel is as big as the bottom one.
OTOH the other images all appear to show what I'd guess was 3 or 4 mm of bezel on the top/sides. With the one render having obvious errors I'm hesitant to draw any conclusions, but am wondering if they're ripping of the marketing lies a no-name vendor said when they announced the "worlds 1st 1mm bezel monitor" where they didn't count the flat area outside the illuminated part of the screen on sides, but only the wrap around plastic of the casing.
Disclosure - I work for NEC Display's PR agency. I had a chance to talk about this with their product manager for desktop displays, and here is their response:
"You're right, the industry calls the plastic around the screen the bezel, which is 1mm on this model. The area between the active screen and the outside of the bezel is 7.6mm on the three smallest sides."
They will update the site with the inactive areas as well.
I have some AOC monitors that advertised 2mm bezels. They're right. The plastic shell around the perimeter is only 2mm but the unilluminated portion of screen material is about 9mm all around. Looks great when the screens are off! Kind of annoying when they're on though. Especially because all the renders took the lcd image all the way to the plastic edge. That's not advertising, it's bordering on lying.
Is it me or do the bezels seem to slightly change in each image? On the first image for example the left side is basically a line, while the right is wider while shown head-on.
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JoeyJoJo123 - Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - link
Like that NEC's high gamut displays are getting some narrow bezel options. Dislike the difference in bezel size on the bottom border, it makes portrait mode monitors look a bit odd due to different bezels sizes on top and bottom.Given NEC's pedigree with high gamut displays, I'd like to see how an "HDR 1000" or higher display offering would fare under their branding. Would probably be pretty nice.
Old_Fogie_Late_Bloomer - Thursday, November 29, 2018 - link
This is sRGB, though.Clemmaster - Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - link
How are those narrow bezels? Are you sure it's 1mm and not 1cm?The marketing pictures are confusing as hell: on some picture, the top and left bezel appear much smaller than the right and bottom. On other, left and right appear the same...
DanNeely - Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - link
If you're looking at the pictures on this page; the all appear to be renders.The top one looks like it was screwed up and the layer that's supposed to be the LCD image was accidentally extended to the left edge instead of stopping where the bezel is supposed to begin. compared with the others it also appears that one has the image too high, so that only the right bezel is the correct size. (Based on the assumption that all the other renders do have the right size for the bezel shown.)
In the second render the monitor is rotated enough that if don't look closely and realize you're seeing both the front bezel and the right side of the monitor it looks like the right bezel is as big as the bottom one.
OTOH the other images all appear to show what I'd guess was 3 or 4 mm of bezel on the top/sides. With the one render having obvious errors I'm hesitant to draw any conclusions, but am wondering if they're ripping of the marketing lies a no-name vendor said when they announced the "worlds 1st 1mm bezel monitor" where they didn't count the flat area outside the illuminated part of the screen on sides, but only the wrap around plastic of the casing.
TechImageJM - Thursday, November 29, 2018 - link
Disclosure - I work for NEC Display's PR agency. I had a chance to talk about this with their product manager for desktop displays, and here is their response:"You're right, the industry calls the plastic around the screen the bezel, which is 1mm on this model. The area between the active screen and the outside of the bezel is 7.6mm on the three smallest sides."
They will update the site with the inactive areas as well.
Ej24 - Thursday, November 29, 2018 - link
I have some AOC monitors that advertised 2mm bezels. They're right. The plastic shell around the perimeter is only 2mm but the unilluminated portion of screen material is about 9mm all around. Looks great when the screens are off! Kind of annoying when they're on though. Especially because all the renders took the lcd image all the way to the plastic edge. That's not advertising, it's bordering on lying.plsbugmenot - Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - link
Wonder what's a better buy, this or BenQ's PD2700U which has very similar specs minus to the USB-C input.https://www.benq.com/en-us/monitor/designer/pd2700...
CheapSushi - Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - link
Is it me or do the bezels seem to slightly change in each image? On the first image for example the left side is basically a line, while the right is wider while shown head-on.DanNeely - Thursday, November 29, 2018 - link
It's not just you, they're sloppily done renders (see my comment above).