What will you choose?

[Margus Voll]

I would go with fsi as primary monitor and pro Panny as client monitor.

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Margus

https://iconstudios.eu

[Ola Haldor voll]

What he said.

I’d prefer accurate colors rather than size in the first place. Whenever you can afford the extra boxes, cables and a large TV, go for it, but use the FSI as the monitor.

[Bernard James]

Many Tks for answering, Ola and Margus!
So 2 points for FSI!

[Charles Haine]

I’ll chip in with a 3rd: we have the FSI as our main monitor, with a 2 year old panny pro plasma set up for client monitoring.

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[Tony Manolikakis]

We use the Panny, with a probe and the Davio. A bit costly but there is no LCD monitor that compares IMO. New Panny will be even better.

Tony Manolikakis
Rev13 Films

[Teo Rižnar]

There is always just a debate between LCD and Plazma displays. Nobody is asking them selfs why the bigest and the best, let’s say it that way, colorist are still working on old CRTs, is the new Sony BVM OLED finally replacing BVM-D line of 32″ and 24″ CRTs, how they were called back in the days digital cinema CRTs?
I had an opportunity to se old BVM and new LCD same ambient same source, it is a big difference!

Here is a Sony promo video about it:
https://vimeo.com/28860170

Yes, and you can get used CRT for similar price you are spending on LCDs, plazma etc… It is just eBay digging 😉

P.S.: I work on a 24″ JVC LCD (very very bad monitor) and a old 12″ CRT. The CRT is first to look, level out the contrast, than I look on LCD and adjust the colors.

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[Margus Voll]

i bet those colorists using crt’s can calibrate them in any second before sessions. old crt’s are like plasmas
in time, fading, moving around a bit depending if it is rainy day etc.

in that sense i would not consider crt. and yes they will go out of focus in the end.

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Margus

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[Robert Houllahan]

I like my calibrated Panny 11-UK and will get a 300 series when I can. I generally do not like LCD’s and feel like I would rather deal with the Plasma issues than use a LCD.

-Rob-

Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.com

MAHC-PRO 6-Core 3X GTX285 20Tb SAS Wave Panel Panny 11UK SDI Plasma.

[Margus Voll]

I would go with fsi + 300 series.

2 separate types of displays is good for comparing anyway

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Margus

https://iconstudios.eu

[Teo Rižnar]

Margus I agree! This is old equipment and we all want to move up on new tech. I admit LCD and plasma options are great when you are doing broadcast, blu ray, home viewing stuff. You see on same tech like people watching at home. But what about the DCP and film print. Even in Rec709 if you compare the blacks, they are not reproducing in same way on any of the technologies.

I have seen and tested a bit Sony’s OLEDs. They are great, specially in dark room, what I prefer for film work. But still I can not decide if it is so much better than LCD it just doesn’t feel the same like CRT comparing to projector.

OK let go back watching in my LCD 🙁

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