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I see.
Well, I don’t know if it’s a power management issue or not, but I see a very-very little gamma change sometimes, when the brightness changes drastically between two scenes.

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thanks, I guess 3800€. is the price including tax?

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Fred,
could you please give me a link to this french site? thanks.

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do you see any kind of automatic adjustment on a scene change?
for example a very dark scene after a bright scene.

thanks

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I’ve got the 50PF30, which was the last “step” before the BT300 came.
Anyway I’ve seen a review somewhere about the reference plasmas, I just can’t find the link:S

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here are the signals, that you can display on your tv:
https://i41.tinypic.com/2qkqeec.jpg

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I hope they solved the automatic brightness/gamma adjustment, that’s present in the PF30 series…

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what about waiting for the Tangent Element to support Davinci?
https://www.tangentdevices.co.uk/products_element.asp

the whole bundle is 3,495$

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hi,

first of all, with the Decklink SDI you will get HD output, with 4:2.2. No 2K, and no 4:4.4 (that would need a 3G-SDI output, or a Dual-Link output).
Secondly, it’s not the display card that gives you “smooth playback”, it just outputs a signal. You will need a fast CPU, fast storage drives, and a cuda card to get real-time playback.
Anyway if you need a HD output only through SDI, the Decklink SDI is the cheapest choice. But be aware, the only “officially supported” card is the HD Extreme, so as far as I remember I saw here a post, that says that BMD tests new Resolve versions with the Extreme only. Anyway, a lot of people using the Decklink SDI without a problem – including me.

As for the display.. if you’re looking for a grading monitor, you’ll face with an SDI input, I’m sure (and it’s the most reliable connector out there).
But if you just need a good monitor, maybe it’s easier for you to output through HDMI with the Intensity card. I think some use them for Davinci.
But with your price range, maybe it’s more advisable to get a used grading monitor, than a new commercial display. You’ll make decisions given what you see, if you grade 10 films this year, and then one year later you’ll buy a calibrated grading monitor, you don’t want to re-grade everything, just because your old monitor was a bit yellowish in the mids. Just my two cents.

Maybe you find one here: https://forums.creativecow.net/cowclassifiedsforsale

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FYI, this is what makes the cheaper GTX285 faster:

Quadro 4000 Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) 89.6 GB/s
GTX 285 Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) 159 GB/s