LCD Display

[Dan Achatz]

I would learn to use the waveform monitor in Vegas. You can trust it more than any monitor for video levels. For color correction you need a monitor.

LCD monitors are getting much better, but they still cannot reproduce the same quality as the best production monitors.

Now here’s where you have to be careful. Consumer TV/Monitors are designed to make a bad picture look good. The designers are assuming that your cable company has mangled the signal, so they try to bring everything back to perfect.

What you want is a studio monitor. Here designers are trying to show you what it is you really have. Once again the best monitors use CRT’s. They may also cost $5, OOO plus. This is probably out of your price range, it’s out of mine.

I would recommend that you go ahead and buy an LCD Monitor, but make sure that you buy a professional monitor such as the Sony LMD1420 or the Panasonic WV-LC1710.

Now if it’s just going to be used to see the playback and not for making any decisions about color correction or video quality go buy an LCD from Dell, Best Buy or Fry’s.

Also, you might want to keep in mind that many of use have started to migrate to HDV or the DVC-Pro HD. This means that you may want to consider monitors that have higher resolution then the monitors mentioned above.

Dan

[Carlo Simone]

Thanks for the reply. I was going to purchase the following LCD display.
https://www.samsung.com/Products/TV/LCDTV/LNS2651DXXAA.asp?page=Specifications

The reason for my decision was because most of my clients will be watching their final product on this type of tv so it makes sense. I do not see myself putting out any broadcast material in the near future as this is my bread and butter. This seems like a good lcd for the money and I will only be using it for playback. My current CRT Sony monitors will take care of the color correction… Am I on the right track or should I stay away?…. Thanks..

[Dan Achatz]

Looks pretty good on paper. Did you head on down to your local Fry’s or Best Buy and look at it next to the other models in that price range?

When I do that, I quite often see one that has the same specs, but looks better.

At any rate, it’s always nice to have a large viewing monitor.

Dan

[Charles Avanti]

I use a 26″ Samsung LN-S2641D, which has a response time of 8ms. I don’t see the response time for the model your looking at, but it is important. A high ms number will give you trailing ghosts & blur. Mine is great since I do mostly 16:9 productions.

Charlie