LCD warm up

In a conversation about calibration a friend and I, who recently migrated from CRT's, got talking about warm up times in working with images on LCD's.

Out of habit I have my Windows power saver stay on for an hour as with a CRT. In reviewing warm up times for LCD's on Google we found times of ten minutes to two hours. What is realistic?

I generally wait 1/2 hour after turning it on before doing any critical processing or evaluation. In all honesty I'm not sure I could tell a difference in appearance between one minute and one hour after turning it on.....

David, I agree with Mark on the approximated time for LCD warm up. I'd be the first to admit that my eyes are bad enough I doubt I've ever noticed a difference, however, my calibration software recommends 1/2 hour warm up before running that program, so, I just run with that thought when processing any images too....

I just got a Dell U3011 after selling my U2711 to Sandy Richards, and both of them need a good 20 minutes to look and feel like they are running all gerbils at top speed. Half hour should be fine. I run an HD video at full screen on a loop for a half hour prior to calibration, gets all dem dare pixels movin', lol!

I think a half-hour is a safe bet for editing in most cases, but one should follow the recommendations in their screen's tech specs if they are noted there.

I normally calibrate my NEC after it has been up and running for a couple of hours, just to be safe.

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I just bought 2 new NEC monitors with SpectraSensor Pro (NEC's calibration software) if I try to calibrate before the monitor has warmed up for a half an hour the sensor won't let me calibrate, so I guess for NEC monitors a half an hour minimum is a good amount of time.