Kona LH and Pany plasma monitor settings???

[Dave Jenkins]

sorry to hi jack this post but, I was looking online at this model and noticed it’s resolution is 1024 x 768. Does this matter? Would it be better to have a monitor that is 1920 x 1080? Sorry for the hi jack.

Thanks, Dave

[Bob Zelin]

sorry to hi jack this post but, I was looking online at this model and noticed it’s resolution is 1024 x 768. Does this matter? Would it be better to have a monitor that is 1920 x 1080? Sorry for the hi jack.

Thanks, Dave

Hi Dave –
only the 42″ is 1024×768. The 50″ and the 65″ is 1366×768, and the
BT-LH2600W is 1366×768 as well. The 1024×768 will “scale” the image for you to HD. The only monitors that are doing 1920×1080 (actually 1920×1200) are the Apple Cinema, Dell 2405, 2407, HP 2335 and 2445, and the Sony SDM-P234b (and eCinema and Teranex Clearview). There ain’t no 42″ 1900×1200 monitor on the market yet – nor is there one for 50″ or 65″. But don’t worry – just wait until April , I am sure we will see LG and Samsung release them by NAB2007.

Bob Zelin

[David Roth weiss]

Dave,

As you probably already know, in this business you can throw any conceivable amount of money at any solution to any problem. However, you don’t always need to use your money if you use your brains, or in this case your eyeballs.

In the last year or two Panasonic and other manufacturers have made siginificant strides forward in their HD displays and the chips inside that do the stretching/downconverting. While having a 1 to 1 correlation between the source pixel count and display pixel count is certainly an ideal to strive for, its presently quite expensive and its not really a necessity by any “stretch: of the imagination (no pun intended). One needn’t spend that kind of money to have confidence in what you’re delivering for most broadcast television, so long as you are meticulous in your engineering. A monitor need only provide a reasonably accurate “reference” that represents the video signal at least well enough to provide the proper visual cues to an editor/engineer necessary to make critical adjustments verified by a waveform/vectorscope.

I bought my 42″ Panasonic monitor only after thorough research and very close evaluation. Ultimately, I felt I could confidently rely on the image displayed without any workarounds or surprises. After setting it up here in my edit bay and comparing it to my SD broadcast monitor, I’m shocked by its accuracy. I have all the confidence in the world that I can engineer and deliver high quality broadcast HD video from my facility using this monitor as reference. That’s good enough for me for now…

DRW

[Zolotroph]

[Bob Zelin] “There ain’t no 42″ 1900×1200 monitor on the market yet – nor is there one for 50″ or 65”. But don’t worry – just wait until April , I am sure we will see LG and Samsung release them by NAB2007. “

Bob,

FYI- Panasonic and Pioneer are both now selling true 1080p plasma displays (1920×1080), starting at 50″.

Panasonic Professional 1080p plasmas:

https://tinyurl.com/y4ed6e

Pioneer 1080p plasma:

https://tinyurl.com/l7jqg

Happy New Year!

[Richard Chin]

“There ain’t no 42″ 1900×1200 monitor on the market yet”

Hi Bob,

Take a look at the LVM-47w1 monitor from Westinghouse. An unlikely brand but they claim the following:

“The Westinghouse LVM-37w3 1080p monitor is a true 1080p monitor. It can accept, process and output any 1080p source input, as opposed to merely creating a 1080p output by upscaling a 720p source.
The Westinghouse LVM-37w3 features a 1920 x 1080 resolution display with more than 2 million pixels. Pictures are sharp, text is crisp.”

It has no receiver or tuner built in and seems to be a dedicated monitor.

Any Thoughts ??

Richard

[Richard Chin]

p.s. and the price isn’t bad either, its listed at and around $1300.00 for the 37″

[David Roth weiss]

Its available for just $1225.00 at visualapex.com, where many Cow users on the FCP Forum have happily purchased. If you had purchased just last week that would have been just $1015.00 for the 37″ or $1025 for the 42″, with a free 5-year extended warranty. Now the prices are higher and Pany has ended its free extended warranty, but they are still excellent deals on great monitors.

DRW

[Chris Borjis]

Hey David,

I just purchased the 50″ 9UK from visual apex last week.

In my research/prep work in anticipation of its delivery last week, I documented some things (screensaver info too)

“Go to screen saver menu, turn on wobbling in screen saver menu, number 2 setting. (this is a pixel shift)”

Are you doing the 100 hour burnin with the burnin dvd image from avs?

[Jeremy Garchow]

That’s exactly what I did with the wobbling, and I also turned the bars to grey and bright (this makes for a not so pretty standard 4:3 image but will save the screen in it’s infancy). There’s not that much standard 4:3 material that gets shown on it, but every once in a while so I’m not too worried.

Jeremy

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Borjis] “Are you doing the 100 hour burnin with the burnin dvd image from avs?”

What is this? Forgot to ask in my last post.

Jeremy