[Geo Singer]

WOW. Thanks a billion, Kevin. That is enough info to help me decide whether to get a HDP2….or not. I will see how the LHi card works out for me without it for now. I do feel well informed, even though I am still digesting. I will certainly order the HP calibrator.

[Geo Singer]

I just bought an HP DreamColor LP2480xz . Before I bought it I called AJA tech support, to check on how I would use that monitor for accurate color correction. As I am going to be correcting for digitized vintage film and digitzed Umatic material, I was buying the HP DreamColor for accurate monitoring of the signal as I digitize and of any correction applied afterward.

AJA tech support said, just plug in the HDMI out of my AJA LHi card, and there I am- good to go with full color wysiwyg from the LHi.

The beginning of this thread seems to corroborate that notion. The way the thread evolves, and what I see in other threads about this monitor displays, and how it calibrates (or NOT), straight from the HDMI out of the LHi, I think I will need an HDP2, a Gefen scaler box, or the like.

The AJA tech support said that they have a HP DreamColor LP2480xz in the engineering dept of AJA. It is still Sunday night, and tomorrow is Prez Day, Feb 15, so AJA will not open til Tuesday. I intend to call the engineering department to get the skinny from them.

I am hoping I don’t have to buy another box. I can send my HP DreamColor LP2480xz back without restock or other loss for the next seven days. The early press releases on the Dreamcolor implied, explicitly in fact, that the calibrator is included. Seems that may have only been in the the initial release. So, I need the calibrator, and the HDP2, most likely, to make the most of the Dreamcolor.

Is there a more economical, and nearly as good, alternatives to this monitor setup? My needs for the moment are in the SD realm. Will I want to upconvert to HD later for any reason?

I am pulling in video from a BVU-900 Umatic from Y-688 to Component through Primage TBC into the LHi. I hate to say DUH… but AJA tech support said that would be a perfect solution also. Am I missing something?

My first post here. I apologize for my professed ignorance of today’s essential matters. I put all my films and tapes in the closet in 1987, sold my Ikegami HL-79, my U-Matic BVU decks, 110, and 800’s, and started to build IBM XT clones. Got tired of sending all my hard earned to Sony and Ikegami.

Now I am putting together a FCP setup to finish the unfinished projects. I do have a couple of good CRT NTSC monitors, with component inputs, and a Tek 1750A W/V monitor. Will that be good enough to monitor for color? I am a die hard perfecto techno type. And my work deserves good treatment.

Thanks in advance for any input.

GEO