The LCD we demoed in our price range wasn't very good holding gradents or anything fine like the CRT could. In a lot of instances it was worse at holding detail than an NTSC monitor is.
The slight ghosting at anything over 12 ns on its refreash, these were at 16, will cause you, over time , to thing you're aniamtion is smoother than it acualy is. Or so I have heard from people.
These workstations are 3d, compositors, photoshop. All of it and we did not think LCDs under a grand are there yet for these tasks.
Also, the "wet" speckle they have drives me nuts when looking at textures , it look like a texture itself, I can see this causing issue when really looking at the detail in a complex picture. Or perhaps that would be something to get used to as well. But the fact is, theres no reason but deskspace. I can't see any advantage to it but that.
For the money we can get some really top of the line CRTs. So thats what we're going with.
As far as PMS goes, of course a monitor can not porperly display that, thats why you have hardcopy swatches with the codes there , so you KNOW that the red of the screen look like the one in your hand even if its off a bit. Thats the point of PMS colors.
All in all theres no point to an LCD monitor that I could see for any work like this.
