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Grading Monitors - any recommendations?

Gunleik Groven said:
After ditching a lot of OLED, Plasmas, LCDs and different panels when building 4 new grading suites, the TVLogic 325W ended up as our choice. Also because the price is such that it is replaceable.

I wasn't involved in the process, but we tried pretty much everything and ended up with this and a dolby panel. Price made that decission kind of rational...
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Interesting - how much is the TVLogic 325W?
 
So I'm looking for a monitor on the low end of the price spectrum. ~$500 or so.

Which do you believe is a better option? The Dell u2410, or a 24" Apple LED Cinema Display from Amazon?

EDIT: Or the older 23" Apple Cinema Display?
 
I wonder how many will end up using Red projector as a grading "monitor".
 
I would also seriously consider the hp 24inch dreamcolor if you are on a tight budget...
 
Maz Mawlawi said:
I would also seriously consider the hp 24inch dreamcolor if you are on a tight budget...
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Having a couple of those, not for the main rooms, but - personally I think they can be very nice.
Not comparable to the TVLogic, of course...
 
Yaaaa the Dreamcolor sounds nice but the $2500 is a bit steep right now.

Anyone have an opinion on NEC monitors? It looks like they have a nice 23" for around $700 and it says it comes with calibration software.
 
Mark Toia said:
http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/cat-monitors/cat-oledmonitors/product-PVM2541/

These rock! but! the only problem with them is no other TV in the world has blacks like it... So what ever you grade on this you will not see the same on any other monitor you view it on.

The only monitor close to these are the new LED MAC screens.
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The principle of reference monitoring, whether it's audio or video, is getting the most accurate representation of the material worked on, not to match the platform of every consumer, which is practically impossible.

What you mention as an issue is a factor which lies in the hands of a colorist.
 
Just wondering if anyone knows if 10 bit monitoring is possible on an EIZO CG275W via thunderbolt ( ie without Blackmagic box etc ) from a macbook pro.
I'm thinking of using this for a Resolve pregrading DCI workflow. ie to grade as close to DCI P3 as possible, do all the secondaries etc , then do a
a final correction pass in a calibrated projection suite.
Does this sound workable?
 
The monitor can display 10bit from the DisplayPort interface. However you're not going to get that at this time from a Mac and a Thunderbolt port as the Mac GDI does not support 10bit output, regardless of what type of interface or connection is used. If you want 10bit displayed on this monitor, you need to feed it with a true 10bit source -- which means something from BlackMagic, AJA, Matrox, etc.. that has a displayport output.
 
Jeff, so maybe the new AJA T tap feeding via SDI a Blackmagic HDLink Pro 3D DisplayPort would theoretically pass a 10 bit 2k signal from the thunderbolt port to the mini display port on the Eizo. Any likely hood this would actually work with rival brand format variations ?
 
I want to say the AJA T-Tap sends out 10bit, but don't know for sure. With it being new and shipping soon, we don't know just what software will support it and all that. But assuming you can use it to send a monitor feed from your software at 10bit, then you should be able to run it through something like the HDLink for LUT management and to get the signal into a displayport connector. Seems like there should be a better solution, even a different monitor, IMO.
 
Interesting... Although I can't comment directly as I'm not using an HDLink box. It seems BMD is aware and they are doing quite well lately with their software and support, so I think they'll get it sorted. Not sure how severe the problem is or how wide-spread. Lots of people using those boxes and few complaints that I've seen.
 
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