NEC Unveils 24-Inch PA243W Professional Monitor

Ashley Allen / 7 years ago

NEC is launching the PA243W, a new 24-inch AH-IPS monitor aimed at professionals. The 10-bit display boasts a 1920 x 1200 resolution, 10:10 aspect ratio, and wide gamut W-LED backlighting. In fact, the latter provides image output of 1.07 billion out of 4.3 trillion colours. In addition, the PA243W can produce 99.6% of the Adobe RGB colour space, 97% of the NTSC colour space, and 96.9% of DCI-P3. The monitor features a USB 3.1 hub with DisplaySync Pro™ KVM switch, DisplayPort, DVI-D, VGA, and HDMI.

NEC PA243W Specifications

Panel Technology: AH-IPS
Viewable Image Size: 24.1″
Aspect Ratio: 16:10
Native Resolution: 1920 x 1200
Pixel Pitch: 0.27mm
Pixels Per Inch: 93@ native resolution
Backlight Type: White Gamut W-LED
- PWM Frequency: 20kHz
Brightness (typical): 350cd/m2
Contrast Ratio (typical): 1000:1
Viewing Angle (typical): 178° Vert., 178° Hor. (89U/89D/89L/89R) @ CR>10
ResponseTime (Response Improve = ON): 8ms
Color Gamut:
- Adobe RGB Coverage/Size: 112.4% / 99.6%
- NTSC Coverage/Size: 107.4% / 97.1%
- sRGB and Rec. 709 Coverage / Size: 151.6% / 100.0%
- DCI P3 Size/Coverage: 111.7% / 96.9%
- Rec. 2020 Size/Coverage: 80.2% / 80.1%
- SMPTE: 163.7% / 100.0%
- ISO Coated V2 Size/Coverage 163.7% / 100.0%
Lookup Table: 14-bit (3D)
Displayable Colors: 1.07 billion out of 4.3 trillion (10 bit DisplayPort or HDMI) / 16.7 million out of 1.05 billion (8-bit)

Synchronization Range

Horizontal (Analog/Digital): 31.5 – 118.4 KHz / 31.5 – 118.4 KHz
Vertical: 50 – 85 Hz

Input Signal

Video: Analog RGB 0.7 Vp-p/75 Ohms
Sync:
- Separate sync: TTL Level (Positive/Negative)
- Composite sync: TTL Level (Positive/Negative)
- Composite sync on green: (0.3Vp-p negative 0.7Vp-p positive)

NEC Says

Art Marshall, Senior Product Manager for Desktop Displays at NEC Display Solutions, said:

“The MultiSync PA243W updates the PA242W, one of our most popular professional wide color gamut desktop displays. New cutting-edge features have been added to provide improved color coverage to meet the color-critical needs of the print production, digital photography, photo editing, and video production markets, among others.”