In last year’s Monitor’s Guide, I bemoaned the fact that CRTs had essentially disappeared, and there was no viable replacement that could offer comparable performance. A year in this industry is a long time (think dog years), and I can now report that substantial progress has been made in closing that gap.
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LEFT: Matrox’s TripleHead2Go Digital Edition ABOVE: Panasonic’s TH-42PX77U
The BVM L230 LCD monitor from Sony
Dell’s 2707WFP
SamsungXL20
JVC_DT_V24L1D
Comments (7) for "Monitor’s Guide"
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Great Article!
Keep this ever changing information flowing.
Thanks
Mark
Posted by Mark Scott on Thursday, June 14, 2007 @ 11:57 AM
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This couldn't have come at a better time. I'm upgrading my system, but when it came to monitors, progress came to a screeching halt. At least now I have an overview of the situation. Thanks so much.
Posted by Barbara Hugo on Tuesday, June 19, 2007 @ 02:31 PM
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No mention of eCinema???
Posted by Gary Hazen on Tuesday, June 19, 2007 @ 05:29 PM
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I second the gratitude even without the ecinema reference (too much expensive IMHO)
Posted by Emanuel on Sunday, June 24, 2007 @ 08:13 AM
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This article is a good starting point, however, it does suffer from one very serious flaw: The Sony BVM-L230 is NOT a CRT replacement by almost any measure.
The CRT's everyone is using for color critical DI/Telecine work product contrast ratios in the order of 15,000 to 1. That means that, when white is calibrated to 30fL, black measures at 0.002fL. The Sony BVM L-series LCD was producing a contrast ratio of 750 to 1 at NAB and has been quoted at 1200 to 1 by the time it ships. This is nowhere near what is necessary in true color critical DI/Telecine.
We are about to release our DPX-series (Dark Pixel Technology) monitors. The DPX-series has been the result of five years' research. They produce a true contrast ratio of 15,000 to 1 and have the proper color gamut. As a telecine engineer myself, I've had this as a goal since founding this company.
The proof will be in side-by-side testing. I welcome any opportunity to test Sony's BVM-L230 monitor against our DPX24.
Martin Euredjian
Founder and CEO
eCinema Systems, Inc.
www.ecinemasys.com
Posted by Martin Euredjian on Thursday, June 28, 2007 @ 12:34 PM
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Personnaly I have seen the sony test between CRT and LCD at NAB 07, and while I don't know the statistics of the guess, I and the 2 persons with me had found quite easly which was which.
BTW are the e-cinema displays selling in Europe?
antoine.
Posted by Antoine Baumann on Saturday, October 6, 2007 @ 06:10 AM
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Hi i am working on a cg film with lots of sfx like smoke dust etc...
i need a monitor that will show me no banding, the cinemage monitor that i have shows banding inspite of my source being 16 bit..
Posted by Ajay Singh on Thursday, June 5, 2008 @ 04:49 AM
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