Dell UltraSharp 2405FPW 24″ LCD Monitor

[Walter Biscardi]

Have you done a search on this forum for that monitor? I believe that monitor has been discussed quite a bit on here.

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[Ron]

but I didnot see about HD AND HDLINK
THANKS

[Shane Ross]

Read this:

https://homepage.mac.com/comeback/iblog/Work/B787268209/C836512295/E20060126005104/index.html

I was able to get the HD Link to work after talking to a tech. Had some setting wrong in the System Preferences.

It looks GREAT…but still not optimal for Color Correction. Close, but no cigar. I mean…the footage loods darn good. But for broadcast, you still need a properly calibrated CRT, or broadcast HD LCD like the ecinemasystems monitor.

Shane

Alokut Productions
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[Sterling Noren]

I use the Dell 24″ all the time with HDV footage in my home editing system. Since I only have one monitor I use the desktop cinema mode and switch to full screen for viewing. When i am done with an edit I take everything into another studio with a proper broadcast monitor to finish up.

But I am curious, since the HD Link supposedly gives pixel for pixel representation of the true HD resolution….what exactly am I seeing, and missing, on the LCD in desktop cinema mode in terms of resolution (not color or interlacing issues, just resolution itself)?

Thx

Sterling

[Shane Ross]

The monitor itself is not properly calibrated for color correction, and the colors, no matter how much you tweak, won’t ever match what a professional HD CRT or HD LCD monitor can represent.

I had an HD Expert look at mine, and set up the monitor to bars. He said it was darn close, and you could do initial color correction without a problem. But he would still leave the tweaking to the professional monitors.

He is a purist…and I am a purist. If you aren’t going to be critically looked at for color, then it will be fine. Unfortunately I wll be critically judged, so I don’t use it inthat way.

I keep it as a client monitor.

Shane

Alokut Productions
http://www.lfhd.net