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Display Monitor Advice
I desperately need to purchase a new display monitor for my G5. The budget is around $1000 dollar range.
Right now I have a 20-inch apple cinema display that’s about to go out on me.
I could either go with a nice large monitor, or 2 smaller ones, but i’m not sure what all is out there and if I should stay LCD or go Plasma.I’ve looked at the Pana TH-37PH9UK. Is that a suitable option.
Thanks for any help in this area.
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8 Replies
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Go for the Dell 2407 monitors. Very nice, and inexpensive.
Shane
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I 2nd the Dells.
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[Shane Ross] “Go for the Dell 2407 monitors. Very nice, and inexpensive.”
ditto on that.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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Hi!
I’ve read a lot of threads were people recommend the Dell 2407. The display is 1920×1200. What happens when you put a 1920×1080 signal into it? Will it show correct?
I’ve also read some about the problems with delays in LCD displays that makes the audio out of sync. Is that a problem with the Dell 2407?
Thanks!
/Per
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FCP will just display the video letterboxed on the screen. You’ll get a small black bar above and below the video.
The Dell 24″ also has component inputs, and will do the same if fed a 1080i signal directly into it. You could also stretch it if you want.
I have a pair of HP L2335’s – which are 23″ 1920×1200 monitors. I’ve never noticed any latency. Whomever said that must be crazy. The only time I could perhaps conceive that would be a monitor with extremely slow analog to digital circuitry and you’re using D-SUB (VGA) to hook up the monitor. If that ever happened, those days are long over.
The Dells are really good monitors; not all of the monitors they sell, but the 24″ ones are good.
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Thanks! I think I have to check the Dell. I guess the delay problem could be just with LCD TV.
/Per
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That Panasonic monitor looks awesome. I’d rather have that than 2 Dells.
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Wow, are you serious?
First of all, the Panasonic is a Plasma TV. It’s not an LCD. This doesn’t make for a great computer screen – but add that to the fact that it doesn’t use square pixels and you’re really asking for it. The native resolution of this plasma screen is 1024×720.
Maybe you could somehow mess with it and make the computer non-square pixels at the right aspect ratio, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. While a PC has all sorts of crazy tools to fudge those things into working, this is the the FCP forum, so he’s using a Mac (Or at least MacOS.)
So you’d rather use a single, non-square pixel plasma TV with 1/4 the pixels as a single 23/24″ Computer flat panel, not to mention two of them?
Let me tell you – when you are video editing, the second monitor comes in very handy. Not only can you view a full screen sample of screen of your project, but you also get 2x the desktop space. And, it’s useful far beyond video editing – studies have shown that any computer user is a good percentage more productive when you add all that desktop space together. Even office workers.
Big != better. I’m sure the Panasonic is a fine TV, but I wouldn’t buy it.
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