Review on 🖥️ Enhanced X-Rite i1Display 2 Color Calibrator for LCD, CRT, and Laptop Displays (Previous Version) by Jay Aukuso

It takes a little training to use such products. By that I mean not just looking at the online help, which most people don't do anyway, but searching through some forums and working with Poynton to see what the "accuracy" shown means. If you want a display that works in flashlight mode, like in stores, you don't need a colorimeter. What's the deal with the low documentation rating on EyeOne? The online instructions are pretty simple ("Place your EyeOne on the display. Is it difficult to understand? How about "Start" or "Next"? If you can't get that far, rotate your mouse). There's more documentation on the CD than many would bother, and there's even a utility to check the monitor's calibration status and sensors. I've found that brand new monitors require a bit of burn-in and older ones may need further calibration - these consumer displays are so unstable and tricky it's amazing how any calibration software can do it all. This particular copy of the Xrite/EyeOne pack is a replacement for my old one which was used for 3 years. After such prolonged use, colorimeters tend to be somewhat inaccurate. If you want something more accurate (the Display 2's average accuracy rating of 1.5% is pretty good for this price point), you'll get a cool $1,000, and add another $200 every year for professional colorimeter maintenance. Do I think the D2 is worth the price? Yes. Do I think it's perfect? Not at all, but close. Not only does it work great with PC displays - assuming the display isn't so cheap that it can't be adjusted properly - it's also worked with several laptops I've set up. If you want to know more about this product, you can find out more in the test on tftcentral in the UK. One concern I have with the D2 is that it doesn't work all day; after about 90 minutes of fiddling with hard-to-manage grayscale and monitors, he quickly becomes nervous. When I use HCFR with this sensor to calibrate my TVs (a pain in the neck for most HDTVs) I'll take a break after an hour, grab a coffee or some Black Metal and rest me and D2 for a bit. If you want to work all day, take out a second mortgage on your home for professional equipment and a color signal generator, and invest another $15,000 in an ISF training course. Even with professional equipment you need patience. This is not for lovers of instant, push-button gratification. It gets the job done in 5-15 minutes, or you can just use it in direct automatic mode when you're lazy or in a hurry. If the results are really terrible you can replace it, but my experience with other video lovers shows that the rejection rate for this product is very low. It's not the Ultimate Pro Silver Bullet (is there one?), but for the price, it's the only way out.