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cinema display 30 – gets a BAD review – anyone agree/disagree?
Was thinking `bout buying one of
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If I ever buy another Apple LCD I’m going to insist on examining it in the store to do a dead pixel count. I was told by their quality control that they have NO DEAD PIXEL COUNT requirments on their LCD’s so if you get one that’s bad that’s too bad. Mine had 11 and although they did replace it, the used replacement also had 11 dead pixels. I was told I never even should have had my monitor accepted for exchange with only 11 dead pixels because that was well within their quality controll standards. Their 1 year warranty is pro-rated so if it is 6 months old they replace it with older parts (it’s even written in the fine print of the warranty) I was with out my monitor for about 4 weeks waiting for my new/old replacement monitor which I suspect is perhaps even a year older than my original. I’m not sure how dell and other manufacturers waranties work but Dell sends you a replacement and then you send in your old one so you are never without a monitor. The Dell has the same LCD panel as I understand it but it is cheaper and has many other usefull inputs on it as well. My monitor is the 23″ but it’s the warranty and quality control you need to know about. Definately have a look at the Dells too. You might also consider 2 dell 2407 monitors as opposed to 1 – 30″ or do you already have one monitor and this will be the second for a dual monitor set-up.
As far as the motion lag thing you have to ask yourself are you buying it to watch movies on or for editing. The value of 30″ is the added real estate for Timeline, Canvas, Viewer, filters, bins, color corrector and other tools to be open and in use all at once, we watch the video on the crt for critical evaluation of the picture not the computer monitor. At 2560X1600 pixels I could put my 1920X1200 23″ screen on the 30″ and still have a pile of room for other windows along the sides and bottom or top. -
I’ve used the 30″ Cinema Display for a year and a half. I’ve had no issues editing, and the real estate is incredible. Keep the brightness turned down, I had it to high when I first got it and it hurt my eyes. I’ve had no dead pixels, but did experience an issue where part of the screen became discolored. I have Pro Care and it was covered under Apple Care (I bought it with a tower). The Apple Store took it and 3-4 days later I had it back with the screen replaced.
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Love my 30″. No issues, no dead pixels and I agree, this is for editing elements, not for critcial viewing.
Ernie Santella
Santella Film/Video Productions
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It’s a nice monitor but the Dell 30″ is also a good deal. If you don’t need firewire ports on the monitor, look into the Dell.
-CHL
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