Any good domestic LCD Client Monitors out there?
by Peter Corbett
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Jun 18, 2006 at 8:36:31 am
I'm just wondering if anyone has experience of a reasonable cost 16:9 LCD monitor; 17" to 26" that can work as an on-desk client monitor. I've checked out the Sony Bravia's which look good, but I think a whole new range of Bravia's are about to be released. It needs good picture quality in both SD and HD via the component connection. I'm not looking for grading quality, just something that doesn't make you go, "yuck"!
Cheers,
Peter
Peter Corbett
Powerhouse Productions
Australia
www.php.com.au
Re: Any good domestic LCD Client Monitors out there? by Peter Corbett on Jun 19, 2006 at 7:16:59 am
Hi Steve,
Price under US$1500. Just to use on the desk for myself and client. I use my Sony PVM 14" for grading and quality work but want something a bit bigger for 16:9 day-to-day work.
Peter Corbett
Powerhouse Productions
Australia
www.php.com.au
Re: Any good domestic LCD Client Monitors out there? by Pixel Monkey on Jun 19, 2006 at 3:51:23 pm
My research on LCDs is over 7 months old, but maybe reading about one of our mistakes will help your search:
Whatever you do find, make sure it's in sync... not just video and audio, but with the editing system as well. We burned ourselves by buying an LCD monitor 6 months ago that doesn't see embedded audio through the HD-SDI, so we had to do work-arounds that are still inadequate (stereo thru the monitor's analog RCA inputs to our board and out to speakers). As a result, the video and audio are now in sync, but is about 2 frames delayed from our Avid. Purely useless for a frame-accurate offline environment, where an editor looks mostly at the interface on the CPU monitors. I had to switch the inputs to the speakers between Avid-out and LCD-out. Hee hee! In 10 second's worth of time, I might hit play/trim/play up to 5 times, so you can imagine how quickly I gave up on that set-up.
So there it sits. $6K. Waiting for a broadcast-quality HD color correction session, which around here is on average about 12 hours/year.
Good luck!
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