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Which HD Display for Kona2
With Kona2, just saw it work in SD mode where they had a 20″ regular Sony Monitor and a 36″ Television out setup through Kona2 SDI Out – IO SDI IN – Composite Out to TV. All looked nice. My question is that what is the most economical display setup for editing HD for a Non Profit Religious Group. What type of display/monitor do I need (cheapest for now until they raise money) to see HD images on screen. Currenly will be setup for SD with the G5/Kona but re-use the old monitors and equipment but need advice to see and edit HD images.
The 20 minute segments will be captured in a studio and then brought over for editing and the finals back on to the Firewire Drive to the Studio for masters.Any advice is helpful. Thanks
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the chapest answer is to get any standard analog component monitor, as the Kona 2 will downconvert the HD to an analog SD component signal for viewing.
I work for many religious groups, and all though they are “non profit”, they all have money, and all want the best displays. There are many excellent hi end choices, including Plasmas from Panasonic, LCD’s from Samsung, the “standard” Sony SDM-P234b (23″) for HDSDI using the AJA HDP, the old trusty and discontinued Sony PVM-20L5/1, but for cheap – any analog component monitor you can find will work.Bob Zelin
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I have a rather large edit bay and I have 3 total monitors. I’ve got the a Sony PVM20M4U for SD component and HD downconverted monitoring. I also have for a client monitor a Sony KD-34XBR960 34″ Wega monitor that looks really great for HD with an SDI to HDMI converter (costs about $2000 at Circuit City or Good Guys). It also has standard component inputs for SD and looks pretty good. And a third monitor I have on another client desk is the KLV-23M1 Wega LCD monitor which looks really nice in HD (it has HDMI and component inputs and is 16:9). They all match pretty well as far as color and skin tones. I’ve always preferred CRTs v. LCD or Plasmas personally.
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