LCD as Critical Color Monitor

[Aaron Neitz]

DRW,

Obviously I’m not saying the cinema display is good for finishing – but for an edit bay in 1080, it’s pretty damn close. I literally have a 22″ Sony BVM (it doesn’t get any better) and the 23″ cinema sitting side by side – they look close enough to the human eye to be “in the ballpark.”

[Walter Biscardi]

[CharlieX2] “Obviously I’m not saying the cinema display is good for finishing – but for an edit bay in 1080, it’s pretty damn close. I literally have a 22″ Sony BVM (it doesn’t get any better) and the 23” cinema sitting side by side – they look close enough to the human eye to be “in the ballpark.””

Absolutely. In the ballpark is where my Panasonic 50″ HDTV Plasma screen compared to the PVM Sony monitor. But it does come close enough that for final client reviews, we watch the plasma.

Obviously the level of “critical color” depends on the user and the application. The post just confirmed some of what we’ve been hearing about the blacks on LCD screens and how difficult it is for them to truly replicate black.

I’m still waiting for SMPTE or NAB or somebody to difinitely say, “This spec will meet broadcast standards for LCD screens” just as SMPTE-C Phosphors were the mark of a broadcast CRT monitor. Surely there will have to be a market for the $30,000 LCD and the $3,000 LCD screens but nobody has given us the spec that will tell us that we are using a monitor that is approved for broadcast. It’s the $64,000 question.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Matt Silverman]

from my understanding, it is not the phosphors which are killing CRT’s… it is the lead. Sony killed all PVM CRT’s but still sell BVM’s. They announced that they would have a comparable PVM CRT coming in the future without the lead issue. But this plan might have changed this year.

[Bruce Jacobs]

In February, I talked to Sony’s pro monitor product manager. It used to be there were huge factories in Japan making CRTs for all different uses. Getting high-performance tubes out of these plants was affordable, it was “just another run” and the seconds went out as consumer products. With the enormous rise of digital display popularity, those Japanese plants have closed and “all the CRT production has moved to China”, in plants not setup for high-end performance. He said high-end tubes cost increase had eliminated profit, and it was only a matter of time….