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[Ron Shook] “…whereas the HP does an excellent job with SD.”

I also onw L2335 and I really don’t like the quality it gives to PAL-dv exported through fw from computer and imported to display through s-video.

Getting a high quality monitor for hd is quite a problem at this time.
If you want highest quality now, you still need a crt hd video monitor, preferrably with 10bit colors hd-sdi card and 5 figures in price tag.

Lcd’s are getting better really fast and the newest ones are beginning to be very close to crt’s.
Some do present 601/709 color space quite perfectly, but are limited to 8bit colors.
Just last gen displays couldn’t disply even 8bit colors accurately, but now that they are beginning to be able to do that, there is a possibility to do that with dvi connector: with dual link and reduced blanking it is possible to display 16bit colors with 1920×1080/1200 resolution by using the first link of dual link to msb of color data and second link to lsb of color data. There just isn’t any graphics card or display available that does that.

And my guess is that there will never be these since VESA is bringing out a new standard for linking displays called DisplayLink. So maybe those high color accuracy flat screens with displaylink are coming to stores sometime in next year.

But right now options would be very expensive crt or cheaper lesser quality lcd’s for short time use, until better ones arrive. Choise also depends on how sensitive one’s eyes are for watching flickering crt for hours a day.
Dell’s 24″ was the first hd-resolution lcd that has over 1000:1 contrast ratio in real life.
Way better than now a bit outdated Apple’s cinema displays or even HP’s L2335.
New Eizo 24″ might also be worth for a test drive with professional calibrator and I’ve heard rumors that brand new Acer 24″ might be pretty good also.

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Actually digibeta’s video bitrate is 90 Mbps so its compression rate is more like 2.3.

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With 2/3″ full resolution CCDs, I’d say that 1080p is needed…

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Yep, it’s missing only one codec: a progressive one…
…and that’s why I’m not buing it.

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[Ralph Keyser] “Lighting – limitations of the HVX-200, and how do you adjust lighting for the best image”

This might be quite easy, since all video cameras which records component signal works the same.
Do not overexposure since you loose all chroma info.
Do not underexposure since half of the tones are in the first f stop from full brightess.
Otherwise use your eyes and monitor and go with a feeling.

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Suits me sir!
‘Cause then it would be the “PAL”-model… 🙂

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[Noah Kadner] “L.A. is the moviemaking capital of the world. :)”

Yep, after Mumbai… ;->

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Problem is that HDD is not really good archive. Every hdd brakes at some point. So you need at least raid5 and that you can’t fit into G5.
If you have hardware raid card and that brakes and there’s no more same kind in a stores you might even need two raid5 boxes regularly mirrored.

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Btw, in PAL “miniDV” is 4:2:0, dvcpro25 is 4:1:1 and dvcpro50 is 4:2:2, so there’s lot to choose from…

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Thanks Barry,
anybody got any info about PAL-model’s framerates?