Colour Correction Techniques

[user_deleted]

i find it incredibly hard to believe that sony are scrapping their CRT based professional sdi monitors for LCD ones which cannot display the interlaced signals which come out of their own hardware. are you sure you have your information correct?

[deke-kincaid]

It's really annoying, but this pattern looks to be true. You can't even get any more sony CRT computer monitors and more of their broadcast monitors on their site are being replaced by lcd ones every few months.

I'm sure LCD fully catches up by the time the CRT becomes extinct in the next 5 years. Either that or OLED which is the next big thing.

[user_deleted]

98% positive i'm right. I was speaking to both sony reps and resellers at the TVTech show in London last week. They were all saying no more trinitron, the future (for now) is lcd.

I did see some stunning displays that convinced me that lcds are improving, but there is still the interlace issue that needs addressing. Just because sony don't want to sell tubes anymore, doesn't mean all the viewers are instantly going to swap their tv's for new ones.

Worth checking out are lcd screens made by ecinema and frontniche. Absolutely stunning quality on both of their 23" hd widescreens.

[user_deleted]

Hiya,

I've got a couple of notes and links on the subject here:
http://www.miafx.com/23/tiki-index.php?pag...ur+Manipulation
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Rafs Ome
www.miafx.com

[user_deleted]

thank Rafs - really useful looking site you have there. I'll certainly be heading back there on a regular basis.

Adam

[user_deleted]

so let me understand.

Sony make cameras which output an interlaced signal, they own the market for professional VTR's which record and playback interlaced signals all for a medium where the end viewer (in the vast majority of cases) uses interlaced equipment to view the content. However they are obsceleting the equipment that professionals use for monitoring interlaced content. Have I got it right?

Thats another example to add to the growing body of evidence to support my "post functional society" theory.

[user_deleted]

yup!

once your market reaches saturation point. ie. everyone owns several tv's. Then the best way to ensure continued sales is to make the existing kit obsolete, proclaim your new replacement as the better alternative (but don't admit that better is really only for your balance sheet). And then just to make sure people take up the new stuff, stop making the old.

Just go visit your local tv salesroom, see if you can spot any new models with tubes in them and listen to the crap being spouted about how great the pictures on plasma and lcd's are. Then use your eyes and believe what they tell you. I watched a screen for a while in a showroom and was impressed by how much deviousness had been employed in creating a hi-def showreel for these tv's that looked fantastic, until you actually thought about the images being shown.....lots of cgi, very little actual moving "real" images, and absolutely no sideways movement. Very cleverly done to show all the pluses and pretend the negatives didn't exist.

hmmm...i'm getting cynical in my outlook. Must stop thinking to much!

[user_deleted]

Unfortunately all these new LCD and plasma displays are only as good as their internal algorithms for reformatting 25i PAL (in Europe) into 50p 800x600 (or whatever native resoluton). The quality of those algorithms vary widely and mostly range between slightly shitty and very shitty.