Nec spectraview monitors registration#

The software uses a two-way communications link with the display monitor either via the video graphics adapter over the video cable known as DDC/CI (Display Data Channel - Command Interface) or via a separate USB connection to the display (supported models only). The monitor even has greyscale look-up tables for supremely accurate monochrome work. SpectraView II provides automatic display monitor color calibration and profiling functions for supported models of NEC display monitors. It has two DVI inputs and a VGA socket for hooking up to older graphics cards. It has everything you could possibly need, including a decent amount of height adjustment that Apple's range of Cinema Displays simply doesn't have. If NEC were to free up the software activation, then it would rightfully earn MacFormat's unreserved approval as the number-one colour-accurate display to use with a Mac. That small quibble aside, in our view this is the ultimate colour monitor for serious graphics work. Frankly, the threat of piracy on this sort of software is negligible, so one really is left wondering why NEC has gone to so much trouble.

Nec spectraview monitors registration#

Now, it shouldn't be beyond the wit of a company like NEC to make sure the software only works with NEC monitors by implementing a hardware check instead of this Byzantine registration and activation system. In fact, in one instance it took three days to arrive.

We found that it took some time for the licence file to be emailed in order to get the calibration software working. This makes it a real chore if you have a number of these monitors in a studio and simply want to calibrate them - each one has to be registered separately. In short, it's a real pain in the neck to get the software working and it's tied into the hardware of a single machine. The main problem, is that the software for profiling and calibrating the monitor is NEC's own handiwork and is protected by one of the most convoluted and inefficient online activation and licensing systems.