I loved U... Since the first time I laid my eyes on you. I loved your curves. The sharpness of your contours. Your contrast was profound. Thanks for 5 amazing years u2711
The irony is that I begin my undergrad graphic design studies in a week, and I've had this 95% Adobe RGB calibrated monitor for more than half a decade. I've had 1440p way before it went mainstream, and fuck it was a privelige.
People often say that it is not worth it to be on forefront of technology- Oh I beg to differ in this case. This monitor was the best I've ever had. The 10 ms, was not really a problem at all in the gaming I did.
I'm now sitting a meter from my LG 60 Plasma, and it's weird. Besides going down to 1080p starring at such a massive screen right in my face is bizarre. The worst part? goddamn image retention. it sucks. 2 minutes of staying on a screen and I see lingering ghost images. ugh.
Do I want a new monitor? yes. But right now so many amazing things are happening- And I have to go back and credit Apple for all of this. They ignited the resolution battle with the Retina Macbook Pro. It made high resolution screens a big deal, and now we are looking at 700-900 dollars 34' inch ultrawide cinemafuckingscope monitors from companies like Acer! ACER! With good colors, black levels and gamut? wut?
And while they are highly priced now, a year for now we will see more with free-sync/g-sync, and >60 hertz refresh rate! 34-ultrawide is amazing. That is literally the max you can have at your desk to take your entire field of vision without having to physically move your head to see the corners. with a 34-incher you can sense what is going on at the edges of your screen.
We just need a bit lower prices, and the sync tech to be standard and it is great!
In the mean time, blackbleed, dead pixels (not as big an issue these days I imagine?) and ghosting remains problems. buying a monitor is still a lottery.
Researching the death of my u2711 I was surprised to discover (it started to show red lines and pixels across the right side of the monitor- thought it was the cable or graphics card) that many people had their u2711's break not long after their 2 year warranty was up.
It makes me think about what a lottery tech is. if you're unlucky with the thing you bought, it can really suck. I got so much good milage out of my monitor I just had to tell someone!
