Panasonic BT300

[Joseph Owens]

There has been some recent discussion of the BT300, and the suggestion is that it can be deployed on a short leash calibrated with Lightspace DAVIO.

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Juan Salvo]

I like these quite a bit. The built in 10-point CMS can be very effective with proper calibration, so can function without a LUT box except in cases where you specifically need a 3D LUT.

These sets are THE STANDARD for plasma display, and everywhere in Post-Houses here in New York. What more can be said than that?

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[Pepijn Klijs]

Hi Juan,
Could you tell a little bit more on what extras are needed to work with such a screen? Calibration, input board maybe?

Thanks!

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[Juan Salvo]

Well the dual link hd-sdi card is pretty much a must have. For calibration, you can adjust the 10 point system by hand through the remote, but some software will also let you connect to it through Ethernet and do manual adjustments over a software interface or manually. Obviously you’d need a probe and software.

More detailed profiling and LUTs would require a DAVIO box. I do not recommend using an HDLink to send picture. For whatever reason it just doesn’t look anywhere near as good.

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[Gabriele Turchi]

hi juan , you are saying that loading LUT on an HD Link VS a Davio produce quite different (quality wise ) results ?

did you A/B test ?

what is the difference ? i am using HDLink for years , sometimes i tried loading the Lut directly in resolve , and honestly i did not noticed any difference (no A/B ) but by memory …

thanks

g

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[Charlie Ellis]

Are you using the BT series as a grading reference monitor or just for client preview?
We found the red hue couldn’t quite match rec709
It was always a little more orange

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[Juan Salvo]

Don’t think it’s an issue with the quality of the lut processing but rather the hdmi connection to the monitor.

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[Juan Salvo]

Primarily for clients, though I wouldn’t be disinclined to recommend it as a grade monitor for someone considering it’s overall cost effectiveness and size. As to the red intensity, can’t claim it’s stood out to me, and probe shows proper red. Could be your particular display, could be your signal path. But a part of it is also just a difference of display technologies having different display characteristics. You couldn’t use a lut box to tweak the reds to your desired point?

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[Dylan Hopkin]

Hi Stig,

We have ordered two BT300s.
I checked them out at NRK here in Oslo, they looked great.
Although I did see abit of “rainbow-effect” from time to time.
But I´m sensitive to that type of thing. (Consumer DLP projectors drive me crazy)

I´ll let you know what I think when they are calibrated and have been in production for a while.

Our customers want to see a large screen for broadcast work. Correctly calibrated these screens should be fine for TV-grading at least.
Although you will most probably have to calibrate them frequently.
More so than other normal broadcast monitors.

Lots of adjustments are possible, turn off all the irritating interpolation features etc……

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[Paul Provost]

Getting one in a couple weeks. any suggestions for a good adjustable height floor stand? won’t be able to wall mount in new location. I’ve seen photos of a stand that has 2 round chrome poles that looks perfect but cannot find it online.

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