Monitor Comparison

[Lauri Laidna]

If you need something bigger then consider Samsung 2011 line of TVs. Anything higher than D6000 has 10-point white balance option! I’ve calibrated few of them and you can get them extremely accurate! The beauty is that you can calibrate them internally with a remote control in the menu. So you get accurate image from whatever video source – DVD, Camera, editing application which does not have LUT correction etc.

37″ doesn’t have Samsung panel, but smaller and bigger versions (UE32D6000 or higher, UE40D6000 or higher) do have.

I think this ise the best good-enough solution out there. Of course this is only REC709 colorspace, which is also quite accurate! I couldn’t imagine working with clients with only 22-24″ screen, so perfect thing for second screen for the clients. The only issue is some light bleeding from sides if you work in very dark room.

I think such solution beats low-end grading monitors, if you can’t afford LUT-based calibration or the monitor doesn’t have good integrated calibration.