NEC’s offering for this month’s roundup turned out to be a quality monitor with some noteable features: it still has last year’s styling, with a big neck that keeps the panel out of the way, lots of swivel and tilt freedom and a tiny bezel that makes the screen appear larger than it is. Internally though it’s a different story, with a new faster 16 millisecond response time, better brightness and contrast ratings.
However, it still lacked a little something when we tested it. It rated well with solid black and white saturation, and displayed a good range of colour scales but for most of the other tests it equalled the CMV yardstick.
With the real-world tests the LCD1760NX also was on par with the yardstick CMV screen, although it couldn’t quite match it in the 3D games test. It did distinguish itself with a higher horizontal viewing angle, but that’s all.
NEC also strangely stated its pixel policy was determined on a case-by-case basis, and was the only company not forthcoming with more details, which made us a little suspicious. However it complies with the ISO13406-2 guidelines so we’ve included those in the table when it comes to comparative scoring.