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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Are these the Reference monitors...

Yeah me too

Yeah me too

I remember scoping out a color grading room for one of my former bosses and when I showed the itemized list to him he immediately picked out the the Sony monitor and preceded to Shit bricks all over the place besides yelling "that's the price of a fucking car!".

It was classic I laughed inside.
 
I suppose the price isn't THAT bad for the 17 incher if you're a colorist who's working consistently.
 
Grading on 17" monitor? Optometrist bill will be more, than the price of the monitor:-)
Seriously, you can't possibly do proper finishing on the monitor of that size. I used to grade on 24" monitor and sometimes I would miss things, that would be quite apparent on 58". And at that size of the monitor I don't have to deal with the client sitting on top of me.
 
These monitors are targeted at a dying segment of the market and with a dinosaur price tag to match. They fit right in with $50K HDCAM decks and $180K broadcast HD cameras... OTOH, there's still quite a demand for studio reference monitors at these sizes and LCD has never been acceptable to most of those who use them every day. They're not really a color-grading display even though they have an extensive color gamut and good adjustment controls.

What I want is a 30" one of these with 4K+ resolution and under $10K. I'd buy that. I have little use for a $30K 17" HD monitor. No matter if it can do P3 colorspace or what.. And better yet, I really want a 4K projector suitable for color work that can be had for $25K or less. It will happen, just not as soon as I would like.
 
I haven't seen these two - but I had the pleasure of evaluating the 7" Sony OLED (around $3000 I think). I sat with the best vision engineer in the UK with it and a Grade 1 reference Sony monitor costing in the tens of thousands and he declared the OLED to be better and more accurate than one costing 10 times more.

Once the price of these falls, I have no doubt they are the future of reference grade monitoring.
 
i saw the TVlogic OLED 17"... the best i age i ever seen on a digital display .. finally true details on the blacks (keeping deep blacks) and finally a TRUE 180 degree viewing angle ...
for the first time i thought that the image was like a CRT ...

The problem on that monitor was the Burn-In ...they said that keeping an image still for more than 2 min would burn in forever the screen...(because of a to young new Oled technology )

i am sure that the sony will be insanely incredible ...but is also true that investing 20+K on a monitor ...than knowing that anyone else will see your product on a very very very worse monitor ...it does not help the grading ...

dynamic range/banding etc... is good to see it while you grading ...

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Ben Holmes said:
I haven't seen these two - but I had the pleasure of evaluating the 7" Sony OLED (around $3000 I think). I sat with the best vision engineer in the UK with it and a Grade 1 reference Sony monitor costing in the tens of thousands and he declared the OLED to be better and more accurate than one costing 10 times more.

Once the price of these falls, I have no doubt they are the future of reference grade monitoring.
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I own said monitor, the PVM-740. It has quite frankly the best image quality I have ever seen in an onboard-sized monitor. I find the colour accuracy extremely good and of course the black levels are unparalleled.
 
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