Monitor Comparison

[Dermot Shane]

Can’t answer to the Flander’s,

but i callibrate my DreamColor every 500 hours, and it takes about 30 min to complete

They nag you at you when you are getting close to the pre-set hours, i think in the documentation HP recomend 1500 hours, but as it’s so fast and painless i do it more often that that.

Worth looking at if you are limited to a sub 3K budget for monitoring for sure, by the time you have a Ultrascope beside it – it’s really a 5K hole in you wallet tho.

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[Ryan Snook]

How are you connecting the monitor to the computer? What card? What cable?

Cheers

[Dermot Shane]

dual link HDSDI out from an Aja to a BMD HDlinkPro, displayport on one system & HDMI on the other one (I’m not using Resolve on either system)

[Illya Laney]

Have you checked this out?

TH-42BT300U
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=&sku=828085&Q=&is=REG&A=details

42″ pro broadcast plasma display with Scopes and test patterns. It’s $2,659.95 at B&H but I’m sure you can find it cheaper. I’d prefer this over a DreamColor considering the price point. You could feed it HDMI until you can afford the SDI card.

[Laco Gaal]

I hope they solved the automatic brightness/gamma adjustment, that’s present in the PF30 series…

[Ryan Snook]

How is calibrating this beast? Simple bars over SDI or using a x-rite probe?

Cheers

[Ryan Snook]

I was looking for something more mobile. I also have a very small room so this would be a tad ridiculous looking in it – sitting so close :). I really like the TV though I would eventually grab one if I ever ended up in a bigger room with a client or 2 who wanted to join me in a peek at the grade.
I am curious though about your comment about going HDMI before I can afford the SDI card. Currently with a GT120, GTX285 and no capture/playback card I have no HDMI out that resolve would send the playback signal to… do I? So I would have to buy something for HDMI out in that case I could off that bat probably just afford the $280 SDI DeckLink.

Can someone help me understand calibration on a Flanders? I’m really hoping to decide on the 21″ Flanders over the HP DreamColor depending on if and how I calibrate it. I know with the DreamColor, I can buy the probe for ~$350 and calibrate it as I please.
I didn’t know if the Flanders needed calibration less often or if they did it for free for life if you sent it in and yada yada.

Thanks!

[Dermot Shane]

The lack of bit depth in the Flanders 21 makes it a non starter for me, but Flanders do say it’s not a gradeing mon… and the real deal 24″ Flanders is actualy cost competive with Dreamcolor + scope, if you can live with the tiny scope display in the Flanders that is…

The total package for either is still a fair bit above your 2K celling tho…

I have been told that there is nothing short of a full on callibration system to lock in the Pana Plasma.. would love to know that it’s incorrect info, but it seems like it’s correct… and there’s no one local to me that offers callibration service unfortunatly

So for me i’d have to buck up for a i1+LightSpace and the Pana Plasma..

it’s not what you pay for it, it’s what it costs ya as my dad said… the cost of sending out masters that are off makes the Dolby 42″ look cheap…

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[Illya Laney]

dermot shane
“I have been told that there is nothing short of a full on callibration system to lock in the Pana Plasma.”

That’s not the case here. These plasmas are specifically designed for broadcast and have much more built in control over any of the other Panasonic Pro Plasmas. Right now I use a 50″ pro plasma and I’d trust it any day over a Dream Color.

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[Illya Laney]

It has built in test signals. There’s many new features on this model because it’s specifically designed for broadcast. Our engineering department uses a Klein probe I think. I could be wrong.