Re: Flanders Scientific Monitor and Kona 3

Craig writes -
I recently saw the Sony PVM lcd monitors and quite honestly, much better than the FSI, but true to Sony form, these monitors come with big dollar signs and then if you actually want to use them, you have to shell out more big dollars for the input cards.

I recently had to work with 3 TV Logic monitors again, shading 7 Thomson LDK6000 Worldcams. The only lcd monitor WORSE on the market is a Sony LMD. I hate the TV Logic line of monitors.


REPLY -
hi Craig. I want to bash you, but you seem to contradict your self in your above statements. First you say "I recently saw the Sony PVM LCD monitors and quite honestly, much better than the FSI". This is where I was going to tell you want an idiot you were. But then you say "the only lcd monitor WORSE on the market is a Sony LMD". So in one sentence you say the Sony's are great, but in the next, you berate the Sony LMD.

I am no monitor expert. I started my career with Conrac, then Barco, then Asaca/Shibasoku, then Ikegami, and for the bulk of it - Sony BVM and PVM CRT monitors. It is an outrage that the company that was the standard for me for the bulk of my career (Sony) makes the WORST PIECE OF @#$% LCD monitor. The entire LMD series is an embarassment to the Sony Broadcast division, and has allowed historically inferior companies like Panasonic and JVC to blow the doors off of them. If you feel that the Sony LMD series is a superior monitor (maybe you don't - your response is very confusing to me) - then I do not value your opinions here. The LMD series is widely considered a joke, and even the most novice user can see it's complete inability to handle signals properly - most well known is it's inablility to handle a SD-SDI signal. A post like this is appropriate for an AJA forum, because the local cable company called me in to complain about their new AJA Kona LHe card (last year), and the only problem was the LMD-2450. Their was a sony PVM-20M4U in the same room, and by simply looping the signal from the LMD into the PVM, the client instantly saw that the problem was the LMD monitor and not the AJA product.

So, you are welcome to your opinions of FSI, TV Logic, CineTal, eCinema and other fine hi end monitors (of what you like and don't like) and are certainly welcome to make comparisons to the wonderful, now antequted Sony BVM CRT series. But don't you dare compare any of these monitors to the Sony LMD line, because it shows your inability to make judgements about these products. (Perhaps I have misinterpreted what you said).

BobZelin